Payroll & Remuneration Manager - Compliance & Growth

AccountAbility; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus 10-20%

Hybrid work 3/2

Competitive package

Senior leadership

Payroll governance exposure

Large-scale payroll ops

People & Culture collaboration

Job summary

AccountAbility in Sydney is seeking a Payroll & Remuneration Manager to lead the end-to-end payroll across multiple business units. You will manage a team of five, drive compliance, and oversee fortnightly payroll, onboarding and terminations, and remuneration initiatives.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on governance, process improvements, and stakeholder collaboration with People & Culture and Finance.

Qualifications

• Proven Payroll Management experience within complex environment.
• Experience with Remuneration and benefits initiatives.
• Strong leadership capability with experience managing payroll teams.
• Extensive knowledge of Awards, Enterprise Agreements and Industrial Relations legislation.
• Strong payroll compliance, auditing and governance experience.
• Advanced understanding of payroll legislation and best practice controls.
• Experience with ADP Payforce highly advantageous.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to work operationally while providing strategic leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end payroll function across multiple business units.
• Manage a team of 5, leadership and mentorship.
• Ensure accurate and timely fortnightly payroll.
• Drive payroll compliance, audit readiness and governance activities.
• Interpret and apply Awards, Enterprise Agreements and industrial instruments.
• Oversee onboarding, terminations, leave management and payroll controls.
• Lead payroll reconciliations, EOFY activities and statutory obligations.
• Partner closely with People & Culture, Finance and operational stakeholders.
• Support payroll system initiatives and process improvement projects.
• Provide remuneration and benefits expertise and contribute to remuneration framework development.

Skills

Payroll leadership

Remuneration initiatives

Stakeholder mgmt

Auditing & governance

Awards & IR knowledge

Payroll compliance

ADP Payforce

Strategic leadership

IR legislation knowledge

Tools

ADP Payforce

Job description

AccountAbility in Sydney is seeking a Payroll & Remuneration Manager to lead the end-to-end payroll across multiple business units. You will manage a team of five, drive compliance, and oversee fortnightly payroll, onboarding and terminations, and remuneration initiatives.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on governance, process improvements, and stakeholder collaboration with People & Culture and Finance.