Payroll Systems Transformation Lead (Hybrid)

Green by Nature; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Job summary

Green by Nature, Australia’s largest landscaping and sports turf business, seeks an experienced payroll transformation leader in Sydney. You will guide the move to a consistent payroll operating model across Australia and New Zealand, leading a team of six Payroll Team Leaders and Officers.

You bring 10+ years of payroll experience, UKG expertise, and strong governance and leadership skills to deliver compliant, scalable payroll solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ payroll experience, including leading system or process change through to implementation.
• Experience with a dispersed blue- and white-collar workforce and payroll governance.
• Strong governance, compliance and control capability.
• Practical project, stakeholder and team leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the payroll transformation roadmap, priorities and milestones, with a strong focus on compliance.
• Lead the payroll system, process and control changes needed to support the enterprise workforce management solution.
• Align payroll and HRIS requirements across design, data, integrations, testing and implementation readiness.
• Maintain monthly and annual reporting, including payroll tax, leave liabilities and WGEA.
• Strengthen controls and manage key-person dependencies while maintaining service continuity.

Skills

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Payroll governance

Project leadership

Tools

UKG Payroll

Job description

Green by Nature, Australia’s largest landscaping and sports turf business, seeks an experienced payroll transformation leader in Sydney. You will guide the move to a consistent payroll operating model across Australia and New Zealand, leading a team of six Payroll Team Leaders and Officers.

You bring 10+ years of payroll experience, UKG expertise, and strong governance and leadership skills to deliver compliant, scalable payroll solutions.