Payroll Team Leader

3 days ago

Melbourne, Australia Payroll Talent Full time

Career development
- Hybrid work pattern
- Steady department in a steady business

**THE COMPANY**
Iconic Melbourne headquartered retail business with a national footprint

**THE OPPORTUNITY**
Reporting to the Group Payroll Manager, the Payroll Team Leader will assume responsibility for a small team processing fortnightly payroll for one of the company's two market-leading brands including:

- Ensuring end-to-end processing of 4000+ employees is executed accurately and within Payroll deadlines
- Overseeing the team to ensure compliance with all Payroll-related financial and statutory requirements
- Recruitment, training and development of new team members
- First port of call for escalated queries and complex day-to-day occurrences
- Leading, coaching and developing members of the payroll function to ensure professional goals are being nurtured
- Reviewing procedures and workflows to ensure any updates/changes are documented
- Standard and ad hoc reporting and analysis

**THE POSITIVES**
This is an established Payroll function with solid systems and procedures in place that will enable you to focus on your people skills by taking the existing team to the next level of their development. And yours.

**THE CHALLENGES**
Being a retail business the Payroll is high volume/complex and some weeks and months are busier than others so you will need to be able to accommodate this. There is also the expectation that you will be hands-on with the team to understand what the team does, why they do it and how you can support them to do it more accurately and efficiently if/when they need this.

**IDEAL APPLICANTS**
You have prior people management experience in a Payroll context or you’re looking to take the next step in your Payroll career by leading a team in an official capacity for the first time. Preference will be given to applicants with:

- A minimum of 5 years of Payroll experience using PayGlobal
- Prior experience working high volume payroll (500+ employees)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with all levels of management
- Excellent organisational, time management and problem-solving skills

**WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY?**
This is a highly unique opportunity whereby a Senior Payroll Officer could take the next logical step of their career into people management. A steady team in a steady business - the ideal scenario to cut your teeth in your first leadership role. The leader of the whole Payroll function has 20+ years of experience and will be an amazing mentor for the successful applicant. On top of this, there are other benefits like annual pay reviews, store discounts and a hybrid work pattern.

**HOW TO APPLY**
**Chris** on direct dial
**03 9614 6558** for further information regarding this specific opportunity. Please quote the position Reference Number
**3637977** if you are calling
**Chris**.

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