Payroll Transformation Lead — 12-Month Brisbane Contract

Humero; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Humero Recruitment Partners are partnering with a strong Australian brand to recruit a Payroll Project Manager for a 12-month fixed term contract based in Brisbane. You will lead a payroll system implementation, coordinating internal teams with a vendor and implementation partners to deliver a robust go-live and post-live support.

Expect visibility with senior leadership and a focus on awards and enterprise agreements.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering large payroll or workforce management projects, such as new system implementations or replacements.
• Strong grounding in payroll operations, controls and risk within award and EA settings.
• Hands-on experience with data migration, testing, parallel runs and go-live cutover.
• Experience integrating payroll with time and attendance and HRIS platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own program delivery, keeping scope, timeline, budget and risk on track and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.
• Run requirements workshops and drive market assessment, procurement and system selection.
• Work with the vendor and implementation partners to shape a solution that meets award and agreement obligations.
• Lead data migration planning and the connections between payroll, time and attendance and HR platforms.
• Shape the testing approach, including parallel pay runs, and guide training, communications and readiness through to BAU.

Skills

Payroll project management

Stakeholder management

Data migration

Vendor management

System implementation

Risk management

Budgeting

Tools

HRIS integration

Procurement tools

Vendor management tools

Data migration tools

Job description

Humero Recruitment Partners are partnering with a strong Australian brand to recruit a Payroll Project Manager for a 12-month fixed term contract based in Brisbane. You will lead a payroll system implementation, coordinating internal teams with a vendor and implementation partners to deliver a robust go-live and post-live support.

Expect visibility with senior leadership and a focus on awards and enterprise agreements.