Senior Manager Payroll

• 508405

• Melbourne (Kulin Nation), VIC, Australia

• People & Culture

• Full Time - Permanent

Our People and Culture Team are the specialists, relationship builders and boundary pushers behind our diverse and exciting organisation. We deliver innovative solutions and engaging employee experiences that make our culture stronger and our standards higher, while empowering our people to become proud brand advocates. Game to join us?

What You'll Do

Lead the change. Drive excellence. Own the future of Payroll.

We're looking for an experienced, dynamic Senior Payroll Manager to take the reins of our payroll operations and lead our function for future success. This is more than just managing payruns; it's about uplifting capability, transforming systems, streamlining processes, and introducing innovation and productivity wins to deliver an exceptional service across Tabcorp.

Responsibilities Include:

• Own the payroll function and ensure every pay run is accurate, compliant, and on time for all Tabcorp employees.
• Lead the program of transformation, drive system upgrades, process improvements, and automation to elevate payroll delivery.
• Champion compliance - stay ahead of legislation, awards, and enterprise agreements, ensuring we're always audit-ready.
• Build a high-performing team through coaching, mentoring, and developing payroll professionals to deliver best-in-class service.
• Drive continuous improvement, document processes, enhance compliance controls, and lead key recommendations from recent reviews.
• Own the tech, govern payroll system changes, manage time & attendance integrations, and collaborate with Systems to optimise tools.
• Ensure financial integrity and support payroll reconciliations with Finance and maintain data accuracy across platforms.

What You'll Bring

• Energy, passion and the desire to make a difference
• An innovation and transformation mindset, always looking for smarter, faster, better ways to deliver.
• Strong leadership skills with a passion for team development and stakeholder engagement.
• 10+ year's end-to-end payroll experience.
• Strong knowledge of EBA and MA environments.
• Understanding of employment-related laws, Fair Work regulations and financial statutory requirements.

What you'll get

• The opportunity to make your mark – take the reins and transform a critical function
• Be part of the Tabcorp transformation journey and be part of a high-performing, supportive P&C function
• Access to corporate discounts and our leading health and wellbeing app.
• Monthly employee social activities, competitions, awards and free tickets to events.

About Us

Tabcorp is Australia's leading gambling entertainment company. Our team is as diverse as Australia itself. Our people drive the iconic, homegrown, world-class brands TAB, Sky Racing and MAX. As an ASX-listed company, we're proud to shape our industry for the better.

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Now is the time to join Tabcorp We have a dynamic CEO in Gillon McLachlan and we're building a winning culture by bringing our office-based teams together onsite every day. We value flexibility - like adjusting start or finish times or working remotely when required – however we believe being together is key to our success.

We're committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued for their contribution and has a sense of belonging and is treated with respect. As a Tabcorp employee, you will:

• foster a respectful and inclusive working environment within your team;
• support and contribute to initiatives aimed at managing the risk of gender inequality, sexual harassment and other inappropriate behaviour in our workplaces.

We welcome applications from candidates with visible and non-visible disability, or with any workplace accessibility requirements. Please reach out via should you require any accommodations or adjustments to ensure your full participation in our recruitment process.

Tabcorp is a 'Circle Back Initiative' employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.

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