Top Payroll Jobs in Sydney

Processes and validates payroll data for Australia and Singapore, including new hires, direct deposits, payroll changes, leave balances, tax, superannuation, reconciliations, reporting, and final payments. Responds to employee payroll queries, maintains data accuracy and confidentiality, collaborates with HR, Finance, and payroll providers, and identifies process improvements. Requires strong Excel skills, payroll legislation knowledge, attention to detail, and effective communication.

Manage client payroll portfolios and oversee accurate, compliant end-to-end payroll processing across weekly, fortnightly, and monthly cycles. Lead payroll consulting engagements, statutory compliance, superannuation reconciliations, process improvements, transformation initiatives, and advisory reporting. Manage, mentor, and develop payroll staff while building client relationships and supporting operational excellence across the payroll outsourcing practice.

Manage and support payroll systems across Chris21, UKG, Workday, and Expert, ensuring system integrity, data quality, access controls, compliance, reconciliations, reporting, and audit readiness. Support upgrades, implementations, legislative changes, integrations, and troubleshooting. Develop procedures and controls, safeguard sensitive payroll data, partner with Payroll, IT, vendors, and project teams, and drive process improvements that reduce manual work and strengthen governance.

Processes and supports US payroll activities. The job description provides no additional responsibilities or qualification details.

Manage complex U.S. payroll operations and serve as a subject matter expert for Workday Payroll and UKG Workforce Management. Support system implementations, upgrades, testing, reporting, audits, reconciliations, documentation, training, compliance, issue resolution, and process improvements while partnering with HR, Finance, IT, and vendors.

Coordinates HR administration and payroll for employee onboarding, lifecycle changes, offboarding, payroll adjustments, time and attendance verification, reconciliations, compliance reporting, workers’ compensation, and HR projects. The role maintains employee records, supports managers and stores, administers HR policies and employment documentation, manages payroll vendors, and collaborates with HR, accounting, and payroll stakeholders across Australia and New Zealand.

Supports SAP and Quintiq payroll systems across Australia and New Zealand by managing configuration changes, testing, issue resolution, compliance impacts, governance, and continuous improvement. The role interprets payroll legislation, awards, enterprise agreements, taxation, and superannuation requirements, translates them into system outcomes, investigates defects, supports projects and releases, and advises Payroll, Technology, vendors, and business stakeholders.

Lead and manage APAC payroll and HR operations, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll cycles. Oversee multi-country teams and third-party vendors, implement SOPs and controls, drive continuous improvement, report on SLAs/metrics, support audits, and develop staff performance and processes across the region.

Provide SAP HR and Payroll functional consulting for an Australian payroll environment. The role requires expertise in payroll schemas, functions, and rules, with Single Touch Payroll experience advantageous. SAP certification and strong communication skills are preferred. This is a six-month contract with possible extension, limited to Australian or New Zealand citizens and Australian permanent residents.

Manage Australian and New Zealand payroll operations, employee queries, vendor partnerships, and payroll system enhancements. Provide ANZ payroll expertise across HR, Finance, ADP, Workday, and SAP stakeholders while ensuring legislative compliance, service quality, and accurate employee support. Identify process improvements, contribute to HR Services projects, and drive payroll solutions through to resolution.

Supports payroll integration and transition projects by extracting, cleansing, transforming, validating, and reconciling payroll data. Prepares system upload files, performs entitlement and redundancy calculations, interprets awards, models payroll scenarios, analyzes audit outcomes, and supports remediation. Acts as a payroll subject matter expert across acquisitions, integrations, workforce changes, and systems including SAP, SuccessFactors, UKG, and Excel.

Provides day-to-day ANZ payroll operations, ensuring accurate and timely payments, statutory compliance, reconciliations, employee record maintenance, and resolution of payroll queries. Maintains payroll documentation, supports month- and year-end processing, manages vendor relationships, and assists with payroll system migrations. The role also requires monitoring regulatory changes and safeguarding confidential employee information.

Manage ANZ payroll queries and provide expert support across Australian and New Zealand payroll operations. Partner with ADP, HR, Finance, global teams, and employees to deliver accurate payroll services, improve processes, support system enhancements, and contribute to HR Services projects. The role requires expertise in ANZ payroll legislation, Workday, ADP Payroll, and SAP leave and payroll systems.

Manage end-to-end Australian and New Zealand payroll, including validations, approvals, reconciliations, legislative compliance, deductions, lifecycle actions, and audit support. Provide payroll system and legislation expertise, resolve complex queries, mentor payroll officers, partner with Finance and HR, safeguard employee data, and lead process improvements and automation.

Supports payroll compliance engagements by analyzing payroll and timekeeping data, identifying wage discrepancies, developing SQL, Python, and Excel models, and delivering wage remediation projects. Responsibilities include data ingestion, recalculation, validation, reconciliation, reporting, visualization, technical documentation, client collaboration, and translating legal and business requirements into data specifications. The role also contributes to project planning, team leadership, proposals, and business development.

Oversee payroll accounting, journals, reconciliations, accruals, statutory liabilities, and financial reporting. Support budgeting, forecasting, workforce cost analysis, variance analysis, audits, compliance, and month-end and year-end close. Maintain accurate payroll, HR, and financial data, improve reporting processes and internal controls, and collaborate with Finance, Payroll, HR, and stakeholders to resolve issues.

Manage end-to-end payroll for more than 400 employees across multiple entities, including payroll processing, reconciliations, journals, tax and superannuation compliance, and statutory returns. Administer employee share and equity plans, support financial reporting and audits, resolve payroll queries, maintain accurate records, and improve payroll automation and data security. The role partners closely with Finance, People and Culture, external administrators, and tax advisors.

Process high-volume weekly payroll for approximately 25,000 employees using Workday Payroll. Maintain employee records, review time and attendance data, calculate leave, interpret Awards and EBAs, respond to payroll enquiries, complete reconciliations, support tax and superannuation processes, and contribute to payroll system and process improvements.

Implement and remediate Ramco Payroll solutions by gathering requirements, designing and configuring payroll processes, defining integrations, testing, reconciling payroll outputs, validating migration data, and supporting cutover, go-live, hypercare, documentation, and knowledge transfer. The role requires strong payroll process expertise, stakeholder facilitation, issue resolution, and collaboration across delivery teams.

Process accurate end-to-end payroll across weekly, fortnightly, and monthly cycles. Manage wages, deductions, leave, bonuses, employee changes, and terminations while applying Australian payroll legislation, Awards, Agreements, taxation, and superannuation requirements. Maintain payroll and time-and-attendance data, resolve employee enquiries, support reconciliations, statutory payments, reporting, and audits, and contribute to payroll process improvements, automation, and system projects.

Processes Australia and Hong Kong payroll through ADP, including timesheet review, pay calculations, deductions, adjustments, reconciliations, records maintenance, and issue resolution. Prepares payroll journals, vouchers, general ledger entries, partner compensation payments, and payslips. Ensures compliance with payroll tax, superannuation, PAYG, FBT, GST, and related obligations while supporting finance reporting and payment approvals.

Leads payroll transformation, system enhancement, process improvement, Enterprise Agreement implementation, and acquisition integration projects. Manages delivery from planning through implementation while ensuring accurate, compliant payroll outcomes. Collaborates with Payroll Operations, Industrial Relations, Technology, and HR teams; oversees requirements gathering, testing, risk management, stakeholder engagement, reporting, change management, and cross-functional delivery.

Manage end-to-end payroll processing and administration, maintain employee and payroll records, process payroll changes, perform reconciliations and reporting, respond to employee enquiries, support compliance and audits, and contribute to payroll process improvements. The role requires strong Excel skills, Australian payroll legislation knowledge, accuracy, communication, and the ability to meet deadlines.

Lead national payroll operations for a large, geographically dispersed workforce. Manage and develop a team of seven, ensure accurate and compliant payroll delivery, oversee Australian payroll legislation and statutory obligations, and drive governance, audits, reporting, reconciliations, process improvement, transformation, and SAP Payroll enhancements. Partner with HR, Finance, IT, and operational stakeholders while managing legislative changes, system upgrades, and payroll-related projects.

Manage accurate, timely payroll processing for European countries, ensuring compliance with local labor and tax laws. Validate timecards, audit payroll registers, resolve discrepancies, support T&A training, create SOPs, implement payroll policies, and lead process improvement projects while partnering with stakeholders to address payroll inquiries.