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About the Role

The Performance & Reward Lead is responsible for shaping and leading AP+'s performance, reward and recognition strategy to drive a high-performing, engaged workforce. This role ensures remuneration, performance and payroll practices are equitable, competitive, commercially sound and aligned with AP+'s business strategy, governance and regulatory obligations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and evolve AP+'s performance and reward strategy, ensuring remuneration and recognition frameworks are fair, market competitive and aligned to business strategy.
• Oversee the end-to-end annual remuneration review, including remuneration modelling, governance, executive recommendations and Board reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement of AP+'s performance framework, ensuring meaningful performance conversations and a culture of accountability and growth.
• Provide trusted advice to executives and senior leaders on remuneration, performance, governance and complex workforce decisions.
• Lead payroll operations, ensuring accurate, compliant and efficient delivery while strengthening controls, governance and service excellence.
• Develop insightful people analytics and dashboards that inform strategic workforce, remuneration and performance decisions.
• Manage remuneration governance, regulatory reporting, salary benchmarking and external reporting requirements, including WGEA.
• Build strong partnerships across People & Culture, Finance, Risk, Legal and the broader business to influence enterprise-wide people outcomes.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading enterprise-wide Performance & Reward functions, including remuneration reviews, executive remuneration, incentive design, market benchmarking and remuneration governance.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Executive Leadership Teams and preparing high-quality Board and Board Committee papers, providing trusted advice on remuneration, governance and workforce matters.
• Proven experience designing, implementing and embedding performance management and accountability frameworks that drive a high-performance culture.
• Strong knowledge of Australian remuneration practices, executive remuneration governance, performance management, employment legislation and regulatory obligations.
• Experience within a regulated industry, ideally financial services, with exposure to the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR) or similar accountability frameworks highly regarded.
• Strong analytical capability with experience in remuneration modelling, workforce analytics and translating data into meaningful insights that support strategic business decisions.
• Experience leading payroll, remuneration governance or related operational functions, ensuring strong controls, compliance and continuous improvement.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across Executive leadership, Boards and key corporate functions.

Skills

• Performance management
• Reward strategy
• Remuneration reviews
• Executive remuneration
• Incentive design
• Market benchmarking
• Remuneration governance
• Payroll operations
• People analytics
• Stakeholder engagement
• Influencing skills

Location

• Australia

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Tertiary qualifications in Human Resources, Business, Finance, Psychology or a related discipline.

Benefits

• Benefits

About the Company

• Australian Payments Plus (AP+) is here to shape the future of payments for Australia.
• We aim to deliver more innovation to Australia’s payments ecosystem, for the collective benefit of Australian businesses, government and consumers.
• Our solutions include Australia’s domestic debit network, real-time, data rich payments infrastructure, secure bill payments, digital identity verification, QR payments and experiences and open wallet solutions.
• At AP+, we believe in the power of passion, pride, and purpose.
• Our team is driven by a shared mission to make a difference in the world of payments, and we're proud to work together towards this common goal.

Equal Opportunity

• We want to remove all barriers to inclusion so if you need advice or support with your application, we’re here to help.
• Please reach out to recruitment@auspayplus.com.au
• We also encourage you to let us know your pronouns at any point during the recruitment process.