INTERNAL ONLY - PAYROLL TEAM LEADER

Brisbane City Council; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Free gym and wellness centre

Award winning superannuation fund

Generous leave provisions

Job summary

Brisbane City Council is seeking a Payroll Team Leader to oversee the Payrun and Processing team, ensuring accurate and timely payroll. You will guide a team of payroll officers, manage workloads, and drive process improvements during a period of payroll system change, including UAT and rollout activities.

The role requires strong leadership, payroll processing expertise, and a solid understanding of regulatory requirements, with a focus on efficiency, accuracy, and exceptional stakeholder

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership of a payroll team.
• Proven experience in payroll processing and payrun delivery.
• Ability to manage competing priorities during high-volume payroll periods.
• Strong technical payroll knowledge with issue resolution capabilities.
• Sound understanding of payroll regulation and governance.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across the organisation.
• Ability to lead teams through organisational change and transformation.
• Experience or understanding of system testing, UAT, and payroll system changes.
• Continuous improvement mindset to strengthen payroll processes and controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Payrun/Processing team to ensure payroll is accurate and on time.
• Oversee day-to-day payroll activities and ensure deadlines are met.
• Provide technical guidance on complex pay processing matters to the team.
• Allocate workloads and develop staff for performance and succession.
• Participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and payroll system rollout.
• Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, controls and service delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Payroll processing

Prioritisation

Technical payroll knowledge

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder communication

Change management

System testing / UAT

Continuous improvement

Job description

Salary Range:Band 8 $150,432 + $162,791 Superannuation(Remuneration stated is for the full-time positions)

Work type: Temporary Full-Time

Duration: 12 months (Extension/s thereafter but not guaranteed)

Our business

Support Services provides Council's key support services under a centralised model. The efficient back-of-house support ensures more resources can be focused on Council’s front-line service delivery.

Employee Services is part of Support Services and is made up of three core functions – Recruitment, Payroll and Learning & Development. We work together to ensure accurate, timely pay and employee lifecycle support across Council.

The Role

The Payroll Team Leader plays a key role in ensuring Brisbane City Council’s payroll is processed accurately, efficiently and on time. Leading the Payrun / Processing team, you will oversee day-to-day payroll activities and help ensure each payrun progresses to schedule, key processing deadlines are achieved, and issues are identified and resolved quickly.

You will lead and support a team of payroll officers, providing technical guidance on complex pay processing matters, allocating workloads effectively and maintaining a strong focus on accuracy, compliance, customer service and operational performance.

This is also an exciting time to join Payroll Services as we continue through a significant period of transformation and payroll system change. The successful applicant will play an active role in our upcoming User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and payroll system rollout, working alongside Payroll, project teams and key stakeholders to test new processes, identify issues and help ensure the new solution is ready for operational use.

Beyond the daily payrun, you will have the opportunity to help shape how Payroll operates into the future by strengthening processes, improving controls, supporting your team through change and identifying opportunities to make our services more efficient and effective.

To be successful you will have:

• strong leadership skills, with the ability to lead, support, coach and develop a team of payroll officers
• demonstrated experience in payroll processing and payrun delivery, with a strong understanding of the importance of meeting critical payroll deadlines
• the ability to manage competing priorities and maintain momentum during high-volume and time-critical payroll processing periods
• strong technical payroll knowledge and the ability to provide advice and resolve complex pay processing issues
• a sound understanding of legislative, regulatory and organisational requirements relating to payroll
• excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across Payroll and the broader organisation
• the ability to lead and support teams through change and transformation
• experience in, or an understanding of, system testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), system implementation or payroll system change
• a continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to identify opportunities to strengthen payroll processes, controls and service delivery.

Benefits of working for Council include:

• flexible working hours, and flexible arrangements
• free gym and wellness centre
• award winning superannuation fund
• generous leave provisions

Application Closing Date: Sunday, 15 November 2026 at 11:55pm AEST.

For more information: Please call Azerina Hukicevic, Talent Partner on 07 3178 5***

People from diverse backgrounds, including those living with a disability and/or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who may have questions about the recruitment process or working at Council, are encouraged to reach out to the contact above, who can connect you with a member of Council’s Diversity and Inclusion team.

Brisbane City Council is a multi-award winning accessible and inclusive workplace where our people represent the diverse communities we serve, are supported, and can feel safe. Council has been awarded Employer of the Year at the National Disability Awards and has been recognised multiple times with ‘Gold Employer’ status from the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTI inclusion.

Council and its employees must follow the Public Sector Ethics Act 1994 (Qld) and the Code of Conduct. This means employees are expected to act with honesty, fairness, and always prioritise the public interest over personal or private gain. The Code of Conduct requires employees to openlydiscloseany other work they do outside of Council — includingpaid or unpaid employment,operatingtheir own businessor volunteering in certain circumstances— and to manage any conflictsof interest orother risks(such as fatigue)in a way that puts the publicinterestfirst.Maintainingemploymentoutside Councildoes notprecludeyou from being considered for roles within Council.