Head of Payroll

**Work options**: Hybrid
**Head of Payroll**
- Australia/New Zealand leadership role
- Accountable for payroll for 2,500 employees
- Hybrid, with office in Botany or Huntingwood

**About Us**:
Green by Nature is Australia’s largest landscape services company, developing and caring for green spaces that connect our communities to the power of nature. With a new CPO and a range of system improvements and people initiatives underway, now is the perfect time to join our People and Organisational Development (P&OD) team.

**Role Overview**:
Leading a team of 6, you will manage the systems and processes to ensure the effective, timely and compliant delivery of payroll operations across Australia and New Zealand.

Key deliverables of the role include:

- Delivering timely and accurate payroll processing across Australia and New Zealand
- Driving continuous improvement, including the amalgamation of payroll systems and implementation of HRIS Time and Attendance.
- Ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, including tax, superannuation, awards, and workers' compensation.
- Reporting on payroll trends and auditing payroll processes to ensure efficiency and accuracy

The role is a member of the P&OD Leadership Team, offering the opportunity to contribute to the broader people agenda.

**About You**:
We are looking for an experienced payroll professional who thrives in a collaborative environment, takes accountability for outcomes, and handles confidentiality and privacy with expertise.

To be successful, you’ll bring:

- ** Proven Payroll Expertise**: 10+ years of experience leading payroll functions, including system implementation and process improvement. Relevant qualifications or professional certification will be well regarded
- ** Leadership Skills**: A track record of building capability and leading effective teams.
- ** Systems proficiency**:Experience with payroll systems, general ledger, MS office and HRIS
- ** Communication and Customer service ethic**: the ability to engage with a diverse range of stakeholders, articulate clear messages and demonstrate a commitment to customer service
- ** Planning and Organization**: excellent time management skills with the ability to prioritise tasks and manage multiple deliverables

**Why join us?**

If you are looking for an opportunity to:

- ** Make a Difference**: Work in a business where we "go to work each day with a sense of purpose and finish with a sense of pride."
- ** Shape the Future**: Contribute to an exciting new people strategy.
- ** Live Our Values**: Embrace our core values of accountability, bravery, and care.