• Support the weekly processing of payroll across multiple Australian entities and Employment Hero payroll files. • Process payroll for a high-volume workforce, including casual, hourly, and salaried employees. • Review and validate timesheets, rosters, leave approvals, allowances, penalties, overtime, deductions, and employee changes. • Apply Australian Modern Awards and established payroll rules under the guidance of the Senior Payroll Manager. • Maintain accurate employee records, including tax, superannuation, banking, and employment details. • Prepare and process payroll-related employee lifecycle transactions, including new starters, transfers, variations, terminations, leave payments, back pays, adjustments, and final pays. • Respond to routine payroll queries from employees and managers, escalating complex or compliance-related matters as required. • Liaise with managers to ensure all timesheets, leave requests, and payroll inputs are submitted and approved before payroll cut-off deadlines. • Identify, investigate, and resolve payroll discrepancies prior to payroll finalisation. • Support payroll compliance activities, including payroll tax, superannuation, workers compensation, and portable long service leave administration. • Assist with payroll-related reconciliations, including leave balances, payroll liabilities, superannuation, payroll tax, and general ledger accounts. • Prepare payroll reports, variance analyses, supporting schedules, payroll journals, and other documentation required for review. • Apply basic double-entry accounting principles when reviewing or adjusting payroll journals. • Maintain payroll records, audit documentation, checklists, and process documentation. • Support payroll process improvements, system testing, and future workforce or entity expansion initiatives. • Perform other duties as required.

Role Description Our client is seeking an experienced AU Senior Payroll Manager to lead the end-to-end payroll function across multiple Australian entities. This hands-on leadership role is responsible for payroll compliance, award interpretation, reconciliations, reporting, process improvement, and team supervision within a complex, high-volume workforce environment. Ideal for a seasoned payroll professional, this opportunity offers the chance to influence payroll operations, support business growth, and provide trusted advice to senior leadership. Key Responsibilities - Payroll Operations & Compliance - Manage the end-to-end weekly payroll process across multiple Australian entities and Employment Hero payroll files, supporting a workforce of approximately 600–700 employees, including salaried, hourly, and casual team members. - Review and approve timesheets, leave, allowances, penalties, overtime, deductions, terminations, and payroll adjustments to ensure payroll accuracy. - Interpret and apply Australian Modern Awards and ensure compliance with Fair Work requirements, superannuation, PAYG withholding, payroll tax, workers compensation, portable long service leave, and other statutory obligations across multiple states and territories. - Monitor legislative and award changes, assess business impacts, and implement required payroll process, system, or compliance updates. - Payroll Accounting, Reporting & Governance - Complete payroll reconciliations, including leave balances, payroll liabilities, payroll tax, superannuation, and related control accounts. - Prepare, review, and adjust payroll journals, applying sound double-entry accounting principles. - Investigate and resolve complex payroll discrepancies, employee enquiries, and compliance matters. - Maintain payroll controls, documented procedures, audit trails, and accurate employee records. - Prepare payroll reports, analysis, and insights for senior leadership, including responding to payroll-related matters at executive and board level. - Leadership & Continuous Improvement - Supervise, coach, and review the work of the Payroll Officer, ensuring quality outcomes, appropriate delegation, and segregation of duties. - Identify and implement opportunities to improve payroll accuracy, controls, workflows, and system utilisation. - Support payroll system enhancements, future implementations, business growth, and workforce structure changes. - Perform other duties as required. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Commerce, Human Resources or a related discipline. - At least seven years of Australian payroll experience, including substantial experience managing complex and high-volume payrolls. - Demonstrated experience leading or independently owning an end-to-end Australian payroll function across multiple entities or payroll files. - Advanced knowledge of Australian payroll legislation, Fair Work requirements, superannuation, PAYG withholding, payroll tax and workers compensation obligations. - Strong and practical Australian Modern Award interpretation experience, ideally across hospitality, leisure, fitness, events, beauty or other casualised workforces. - Proven ability to monitor legislative changes and translate them into compliant payroll processes and controls. - Strong payroll accounting capability including reconciliations, payroll journals and double-entry accounting fundamentals. - Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including complex formulas, lookups, pivot tables, data validation and reconciliation of large data sets. - Experience using Employment Hero Payroll is highly regarded. Comparable Australian payroll system experience is essential. - Demonstrated experience processing weekly payroll for several hundred employees, including casual, hourly and salaried employees. - Strong leadership, delegation and quality-review capability with experience supporting or supervising payroll team members. - High-level written and verbal communication skills with the confidence to engage senior executives and board-level stakeholders. - Exceptional attention to detail, judgement, confidentiality and accountability in a deadline-driven environment. Benefits - Work setup – Work from home; Dayshift - 0700 AM- 0400 PM PHT (adjustments will be made for daylight saving time) - Monday to Friday; weekends off - HMO with 2 free dependents and medical reimbursements - Government-mandated benefits - Opportunities to work with leading companies in Australia and beyond - Training programmes for career development - Engaging company outings, team activities and wellness sessions - Supportive, inclusive culture - Dedicated managers focused on your growth and success

• Act as a true subject matter expert for the country • Manage existing relationships with key stakeholder within Payroll Implementation, Finance, Product, Engineers. • Process full end to end payroll in-house, statutory filing requirements, exceptions, approvals, payments and compliance. • Ensure full data integrity and quality • Payroll journals/reconciliations • Focus on KPIs and SLAs • Implement and improve processes • Mentor and support payroll specialists • Back up regional managers during times of absence

Role Description An established Australian hospitality group is seeking an experienced AU Payroll Officer to support the accurate and timely processing of payroll across multiple entities. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented payroll professional with strong knowledge of Australian payroll legislation, Modern Awards, reconciliations, and payroll systems. Working within a collaborative payroll team, you'll play a key role in ensuring payroll accuracy, compliance, and an excellent employee experience across a diverse workforce. The AU Payroll Officer is responsible for supporting the accurate and timely processing of Australian payroll across multiple entities and payroll files. Working under the direction of the Senior Payroll Manager, the position will complete high-volume payroll administration, timesheet validation, employee record maintenance, reconciliations and payroll support activities across a predominantly casual workforce. Key Responsibilities - Payroll Processing & Administration - Support the weekly processing of payroll across multiple Australian entities and Employment Hero payroll files. - Process payroll for a high-volume workforce, including casual, hourly, and salaried employees. - Review and validate timesheets, rosters, leave approvals, allowances, penalties, overtime, deductions, and employee changes. - Apply Australian Modern Awards and established payroll rules under the guidance of the Senior Payroll Manager. - Maintain accurate employee records, including tax, superannuation, banking, and employment details. - Prepare and process payroll-related employee lifecycle transactions, including new starters, transfers, variations, terminations, leave payments, back pays, adjustments, and final pays. - Employee Support & Payroll Compliance - Respond to routine payroll queries from employees and managers, escalating complex or compliance-related matters as required. - Liaise with managers to ensure all timesheets, leave requests, and payroll inputs are submitted and approved before payroll cut-off deadlines. - Identify, investigate, and resolve payroll discrepancies prior to payroll finalisation. - Support payroll compliance activities, including payroll tax, superannuation, workers compensation, and portable long service leave administration. - Reconciliations, Reporting & Continuous Improvement - Assist with payroll-related reconciliations, including leave balances, payroll liabilities, superannuation, payroll tax, and general ledger accounts. - Prepare payroll reports, variance analyses, supporting schedules, payroll journals, and other documentation required for review. - Apply basic double-entry accounting principles when reviewing or adjusting payroll journals. - Maintain payroll records, audit documentation, checklists, and process documentation. - Support payroll process improvements, system testing, and future workforce or entity expansion initiatives. - Perform other duties as required. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Commerce, Human Resources or a related discipline. - At least three years of Australian payroll experience, preferably within a high-volume, multi-entity or casualised workforce environment. - Practical experience processing Australian weekly or fortnightly payroll from timesheets through to finalisation. - Working knowledge of Australian payroll legislation, Fair Work requirements, superannuation, PAYG withholding and payroll tax fundamentals. - Experience applying Australian Modern Awards, with exposure to hospitality, leisure, fitness, events, beauty or similar industries highly regarded. - Strong Microsoft Excel skills including formulas, lookups, pivot tables and reconciliation of payroll data. - Experience using Employment Hero Payroll is highly regarded. Comparable Australian payroll system experience is desirable. - Sound understanding of payroll reconciliations, payroll journals and basic double-entry accounting principles. - Strong numerical accuracy, attention to detail and ability to identify inconsistencies within large data sets. - Ability to manage recurring deadlines, follow documented controls and escalate issues appropriately. - Clear written and verbal communication skills with a professional and service-focused approach. - High standards of confidentiality, reliability and accountability. Benefits - Work from home; Dayshift - 0700 AM- 0400 PM PHT (adjustments will be made for daylight saving time). - Monday to Friday; weekends off. - HMO with 2 free dependents and medical reimbursements. - Government-mandated benefits. - Opportunities to work with leading companies in Australia and beyond. - Training programmes for career development. - Engaging company outings, team activities and wellness sessions. - Supportive, inclusive culture. - Dedicated managers focused on your growth and success.