Senior Manager Payroll Services

TAFE NSW Life-Changing Careers

Senior Manager Payroll Services

Location negotiable across TAFE NSW (pending campus availability)

Permanent Full-time

$223,888 package includes salary ($197,662), employer's superannuation and annual leave loading

At TAFE NSW, we are dedicated to life-changing impact.

That's why we offer world-class training and education that delivers the skills needed for the jobs of today and tomorrow.

Life-changing impact starts with an incredible team that sees their career as an opportunity to transform someone's world. Whether that's inspiring students, supporting each other, or helping our communities and industries flourish.

We live by TAFE NSW values: Customer Focus, Integrity, Collaboration, and Excellence. They define who we are, how we work and inspire our performance.

We invest in our people

At TAFE NSW, you'll be part of a diverse, dynamic, and collaborative workplace where innovation and meaningful work go hand in hand. We're committed to supporting your growth through ongoing training, professional development, and health and wellbeing programs.

Depending on your role, you may also benefit from a 35-hour working week and a range of flexible working options to help you balance work and life.

Want to see what it's like to be part of our team? Watch this video to hear directly from our people about what makes TAFE NSW a great place to work.

About the role

As the Senior Manager Payroll Services at TAFE NSW, you will lead the delivery of high-volume payroll and disbursement services across a large and complex organisation. You'll oversee a dispersed team operating across the state, ensuring payroll operations are accurate, timely, and customer focused.

A key focus of the role will be supporting the payroll leadership team to build a culture of high performance and strong collaboration, working together to enhance consistency and service delivery.

This role requires a strategic leader who can demonstrate experience in driving operational excellence while navigating resource challenges and team dynamics. You'll be instrumental in strengthening cross-team communication, guiding the effective use of resources across the function, and leading process and system improvements in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Curious about the Senior Manager Payroll Services role?

Join us for an informal drop-in session on Tuesday, 21 October at 4:00pm AEDT to connect directly with the hiring manager, the TAFE NSW Director Workforce Services. This is a great opportunity to:

• Gain deeper insight into the strategic scope and leadership responsibilities of the role.
• Understand how the position drives payroll excellence across a large, complex organisation.
• Ask questions about team structure, challenges, and expectations.
• Learn how your experience could align with TAFE NSW's mission and values.

Whether you're considering applying or just want to learn more, we encourage you to come along and explore how this role could be a life-changing career move. Registration is not required, just drop in Join via this MS Teams link.

About You

You're a people focused leader with a proven ability to guide teams through change and build a culture of high performance. You understand the importance of aligning teams that have come from different structures and ways of working, and you're confident in your ability to bring people together around shared goals, KPIs, and clear expectations. You've successfully supported teams to become high functioning and collaborative, and you know how to lead with empathy while driving accountability.

You'll bring strong experience in managing large, complex teams ideally within a high-volume payroll environment and you're comfortable navigating change and competing priorities. Your ability to coach and develop others will be key to your success, as will your collaborative leadership style.

Experience working with SAP or similar enterprise systems will be highly regarded.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent skills, knowledge and experience.
• Extensive experience managing a large, complex payroll function within a large government or similarly complex organisation.
• Deep technical expertise in contemporary payroll practices, relevant legislation (taxation, superannuation, awards/agreements), payroll systems, risk management and/or process improvement methodologies.

To find out more about the role, click to view the Role Description.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

We are committed to creating a culturally safe and accessible workplace where dignity, trust, respect, and the promotion of diversity and inclusion are valued, so you can safely bring your whole self to work and connect with your community through our many diverse employee networks.

If you require an adjustment in the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Acquisition Advisor listed below.

A career of life-changing impact awaits you. Apply now

Applications close 11.55pm AEDT Sunday 2 November 2025

To apply for this role, click on 'apply now' and provide:

• Your current resume
• Certified copies of your qualifications
• Response to one targeted question when prompted in the application form (max 300 words)

Targeted Question: Describe a time when you supported a team through significant organisational change. How did you build trust, align leadership, and help the team establish clear performance expectations and collaborative ways of working? What was the impact on team culture and outcomes?

General recruitment and adjustment enquiries: contact Talent Acquisition Advisor Sally Barry, and

Role-specific enquiries: contact Regan Harding, Director Workforce Services, and

For helpful insights into preparing your application, TAFE NSW's recruitment process, and getting interview ready, read through our Application Process and the interactive Capability Application Tool.

This is a child-related position. A Working with Children Check is a prerequisite for anyone in child-related work. It involves a national criminal history check and review of findings of workplace misconduct.

To be eligible for positions at TAFE NSW, you need to be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident of Australia or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand passport.

An eligibility list, valid for 18 months, may be created for this position, and position(s) of the same classification that subsequently becomes vacant, may be filled via this recruitment.

Location is negotiable across our TAFE NSW campuses. Please note your preferred campus location is not guaranteed and is subject to campus availability at the time of offer.

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