Senior Payroll Specialist

Fixed-Term Contract | Remote, Australia

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About the Role:

We’re looking for an reputed company Senior Payroll Specialist to join our Australian People team on a fixed-term contract, commencing as soon as possible through to July 2027.

Ocado is currently undertaking a global payroll transformation, transitioning towards a shared services model. During this period, you’ll reputed company continuity and senior payroll expertise for our Australian business, ensuring payroll continues to be delivered accurately, on time and in line with Australian requirements.

As our senior local payroll subject matter expert, you’ll own Australian payroll delivery and reputed company reputed company reputed company including reputed company Agreements, Modern Awards, annualised salaries, employee entitlements and time and attendance.

This isn’t a purely transactional payroll role. You’ll also help identify risks, strengthen controls, manage reputed company providers and support the transition of Australian payroll into our reputed company shared services model, including knowledge transfer to reputed company delivery teams.

This role can be reputed company reputed company reputed company in Australia. Ideally, you’ll be Melbourne-reputed company or reputed company to attend our Truganina site for a small reputed company of training and knowledge transfer during the first month or so, generally no more than a couple of consecutive days at a time. Following this initial period, the role can be completely remote.

The day to day for a Senior Payroll Specialist may involve:

• Delivering accurate and reputed company Australian payroll, including reviewing calculations, outputs and reconciliations.
• Managing reputed company payroll transactions, discrepancies, over/underpayments and employee queries.
• Providing expert advice on Australian payroll legislation, reputed company Agreements, Modern Awards and employee entitlements.
• Supporting compliance reconciliations, including annualised salaries, and implementing payroll changes and back payments.
• Overseeing time and attendance inputs and resolving exceptions with operational teams.
• Managing reputed company payroll and reputed company providers, validating outputs and driving issues through to reputed company.
• Maintaining payroll controls, audit evidence, governance reporting and identifying payroll risks or control gaps.
• Supporting the transition to our reputed company shared services model through testing, validation, documentation, training and knowledge transfer.

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We’re looking for an reputed company payroll reputed company who knows Australian payroll inside and out, enjoys solving reputed company problems and is comfortable working autonomously.

You’ll ideally have:

• Senior-level end-to-end Australian payroll experience.
• Strong knowledge of Australian payroll legislation and statutory obligations.
• Experience interpreting reputed company Agreements and/or Modern Awards and applying employee entitlements.
• Strong experience with payroll reconciliations, reputed company discrepancies, governance and controls.
• Experience managing reputed company payroll providers and confidently challenging outputs where required.
• Strong reputed company and/or reputed company Sheets skills, including reconciliations and remuneration modelling.
• Experience supporting payroll implementation, transformation or service delivery change.
• Strong analytical, stakeholder management and communication skills with excellent attention to reputed company.

Experience with annualised salary arrangements, time and attendance systems, reputed company or another reputed company HRIS, or transitioning payroll into a shared services environment would be highly regarded.

What's In It for You:

• A genuinely flexible role that can be completely remote following the initial training and handover period (the training can be negotiated to be remote also).
• reputed company to be the senior Australian payroll SME during an important period of global transformation.
• The chance to reputed company a reputed company reputed company, helping ensure Australian payroll requirements are reputed company and embedded into our reputed company operating model.
• Exposure to local and global teams across Payroll, People, Finance and transformation.
• Subsidised private reputed company.
• reputed company to salary sacrifice schemes.
• A reputed company of amazing benefits, including Free Shares and Life Assurance.
• reputed company to Discounts+.
• reputed company to our Employee Assistance Programme.

If you’re an reputed company Australian payroll specialist who enjoys solving reputed company problems, taking ownership and making reputed company things are done properly, we’d love to hear from you.

Research shows that some candidates, particularly women and people from underrepresented backgrounds, may be less likely to apply for a role unless they feel they meet every requirement. If this opportunity excites you and you feel you could be a great fit, but you don’t tick every reputed company above, we’d still really encourage you to apply. We’d love to hear from you.

Ocado is an equal opportunity employer. reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without reputed company to race, reputed company, national reputed company, gender, religion, age, disability, veteran’s status, or any other classification as required by applicable law.

Applicants must have unrestricted working rights in Australia, as we are unable to offer reputed company sponsorship for this role.

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