Payroll Improvement Manager

**Payroll Improvement Manager**:

- Job ID- 930483- Job Type- Permanent Full Time- Location- Australia - Brisbane- Categories- Accounting / Tax / Treasury- Applications close- 26 Sep 2024 E. Australia Standard Time**Make your mark**

Everyday, all around the world, Thiess supports and celebrates our people. We recognise talent and reward transparency. We champion diversity and embrace change.

Join us. Hone your skills and develop new ones. Take on big challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration and empowerment.

Thiess is the place to make things happen.

**About The Role**

Are you a dynamic leader with a passion for optimising payroll processes and driving transformational change? We're seeking an experienced Payroll Improvement Manager to spearhead our organisation's payroll enhancement initiatives. In this pivotal role, you'll lead the charge in developing and implementing strategic improvements to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing while identifying efficiencies and streamlining operations. Your expertise in process design, change management, and team leadership will be crucial as you guide both day-to-day improvements and large-scale transformation projects. If you're ready to make a significant impact on our payroll operations and mentor a talented team, we want to hear from you.

**Additionally, you will**:

- Monitor and review payroll processes, recommending improvements for efficiency and compliance while collaborating with the Payroll Compliance Lead to mitigate risks.
- Conduct research and analysis for strategic projects, developing solutions through root-cause analysis and promoting standardised time and attendance practices.
- Prepare change documentation using structured approaches to facilitate adoption and minimise disruption, ensuring effective communication and training activities.
- Provide leadership and guidance to the Payroll Improvement team, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams and vendors to meet business requirements.
- Design induction training for new payroll staff, create development pathways, and deliver training on payroll process changes to support team growth.

**About You**

**Additionally you have**:

- Business and/or HR Degree, or equivalent qualifications / experience.
- 5 to 10 years' experience in E2E payroll management in medium / large organisations.
- Demonstrated experience in driving continuous improvement in a payroll function.

**What Thiess Can Do for You**
- Help to grow your career, offering diverse and varied opportunities for advancement
- Flexible working arrangements
- Recently renovated corporate head office located in South Bank, Brisbane
- World-class health & wellbeing programs
- On-site gymnasium
- Salary sacrifice options
- 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 safe, included and empowered.

**How to Apply**

This role is an opportunity to take the next step in your career. With our culture of recognition, development, and a stimulating and satisfying work environment, there is no better time to join Thiess.