Payroll Compliance Lead

**Payroll Compliance Lead**:

- Job ID- 930457- Job Type- Permanent Full Time- Location- Australia - Brisbane- Categories- Accounting / Tax / Treasury- Applications close- 25 Sep 2024 E. Australia Standard Time**Make your mark with Thiess**

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**About the role**

Thiess is seeking a dynamic Payroll Compliance Lead to spearhead our compliance initiatives and drive payroll transformation. In this critical position, you will develop and oversee our Payroll Compliance Framework, ensuring adherence to legal, regulatory, and company standards across all systems and processes. Your expertise will be instrumental in maintaining end-to-end payroll compliance and pay accuracy while leading transformative projects and coaching team members.

**Additionally, you will**:

- Develop and oversee the Payroll Compliance & Quality Assurance Framework, including implementing process controls, maintaining governance documents, and managing audits.
- Ensure payroll systems and processes are optimised for compliance, partnering with stakeholders and internal legal teams to interpret and implement Awards, EAs, and contracts accurately.
- Stay current with legislative changes and EAs, developing action plans and recommendations for the team and relevant stakeholders to maintain compliance.
- Identify training needs, create improvement initiatives, and foster a culture of continuous improvement within the payroll function through regular coaching and upskilling programs.
- Collaborate with the Payroll Leadership Team and multi-disciplinary teams to deliver on priorities, provide guidance to the Payroll team, and support the implementation of corporate strategies and initiatives.

**About you**

You are a seasoned payroll professional with 5 to 10 years of experience in end-to-end payroll management within medium to large organisations. Your highly developed leadership, strategic planning, and change management skills empower you to coordinate and deliver impactful strategic outcomes. You possess deep expertise in interpreting legislation, Awards, and Enterprise Agreements, ensuring that payroll systems are configured and processes are designed for optimal compliance.

With a solid understanding of the Fair Work Act and contemporary issues affecting payroll processes, you bring high-level conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills to the table. You have a proven track record in developing, implementing, and monitoring payroll compliance frameworks, driving business improvement, and providing innovative solutions to complex challenges.

Your exceptional communication and interpersonal skills enable you to engage in high-level consultations, collaborations, and negotiations with stakeholders across the organisation. With a Business or HR degree, or equivalent qualifications, you are ready to lead and coach your team through both business-as-usual improvements and transformative initiatives.

**What Thiess can do for you**
- Help to build on your career, offering diverse opportunities to expand your skill set
- Flexible working arrangements
- Recently renovated corporate head office located in South Bank, Brisbane
- Health & wellbeing programs
- On-site gymnasium
- A range of corporate discounts, including health insurance (Medibank), travel & retail products

**About us**

Thiess works with clients in Australia, Asia and the Americas in the dynamic field of open-cut and underground mining.

The pioneering spirit of our founders - the legendary Thiess brothers - is our legacy, and inspires our vision to harness the power of people and technology to drive sustainable change.

At Thiess, you will have the opportunity to play a part in the global energy transition. We are growing our commodities portfolio to include metals and minerals critical to the energy transition, and developing services to enable sustainable mining.

We’re creating a culture of curiosity, knowledge-sharing, and continuous learning - supporting our people to contribute to Thiess’ success and continued growth in sustainable mining.

We’ll support you to hone your skills and develop new ones, take on challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration and empowerment. We offer our people ongoing technical training and development opportunities so they can reach their full potential. We also invest in the workforce of the future, with a range of programs for people starting their careers.

We recognise the value of an inclusive and diverse workplace through our vision of everyone matters always. We’re focused on creating an inclusive environment to enable our people to bring their best self to work because they feel sa