Payroll Transformation Lead: Systems & Compliance

Cleared ICT; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cleared Recruitment is seeking a Payroll Project Lead to drive payroll system upgrades and related initiatives within a highly regulated ACT environment. You will coordinate across Finance, People & Culture, IT, Cyber Security and external partners to deliver compliant, secure payroll solutions.

The role requires strong project leadership, payroll process knowledge and experience delivering HRIS/payroll integrations, data validation and governance.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading payroll system implementation or upgrade projects.
• Strong understanding of payroll operations, legislation, compliance and governance.
• Experience across HRIS/payroll systems analysis and business process improvement.
• Proven ability to gather and translate requirements into practical system solutions.
• Experience coordinating system testing, data validation and implementation activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead payroll system upgrade and transformation projects from planning through to implementation and stabilisation.
• Manage project plans, timelines, risks, issues, reporting and key deliverables.
• Coordinate stakeholders across Payroll, Finance, HR, IT, Cyber Security and external vendors.
• Gather and translate business requirements into practical system and process solutions.
• Analyse and improve payroll processes, workflows, controls and system functionality.
• Coordinate system configuration, integrations, testing, data migration, validation and go-live activities.
• Ensure payroll systems and processes support relevant compliance, governance, security and reporting requirements.
• Lead payroll testing activities, including parallel pay runs, reconciliations and data validation.
• Develop process documentation, standard operating procedures and governance frameworks.
• Provide project reporting and data analysis to support senior leadership, decision-making and continuous improvement.

Skills

Payroll upgrades

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

HRIS analysis

Governance

Process improvement

Compliance

Advanced Excel

Payroll testing

Tools

Excel

Job description

Cleared Recruitment is seeking a Payroll Project Lead to drive payroll system upgrades and related initiatives within a highly regulated ACT environment. You will coordinate across Finance, People & Culture, IT, Cyber Security and external partners to deliver compliant, secure payroll solutions.

The role requires strong project leadership, payroll process knowledge and experience delivering HRIS/payroll integrations, data validation and governance.