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About the Role

As a Workday Payroll Lead, you will lead the design, implementation, and delivery of Workday Payroll solutions for clients. You will act as a trusted advisor, driving payroll transformation initiatives while managing teams, engaging senior stakeholders, and contributing to business growth.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end Workday Payroll implementations and transformations, from solution design through deployment and hypercare.
Own solution architecture and payroll process design, ensuring alignment with client business and compliance requirements.
Oversee configuration of payroll elements (earnings, deductions, taxes) and ensure data integrity, validation, and reconciliation.
Govern payroll testing strategy (SIT, UAT) and ensure quality delivery outcomes.
Execute parallel payroll testing and co-ordinate remediation with customer payroll teams.
Manage the migration of the payroll solution into a production environment.
Support the payroll team with the transition onto the new payroll solution and the operational changes they will need to make.
Act as the primary client interface for payroll workstreams, building strong relationships with senior stakeholders.
Facilitate workshops and advise on payroll leading practices, transformation strategy, and optimisation opportunities.
Provide governance, escalation management, and risk mitigation across engagements.
Lead and mentor cross-functional delivery teams (functional, integration, and testing).
Drive team performance, capability development, and Workday Payroll knowledge uplift.
Support recruitment, onboarding, and retention of Workday talent.
Support sales pursuits, proposals, and RFP responses for Workday Payroll opportunities.
Contribute to solutioning, effort estimation, and commercial modelling.
Identify and drive add-on opportunities within existing clients (e.g., payroll optimisation, extensions, AMS services).
Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders (e.g., Workday practice leads, sales teams) to grow pipeline.
Contribute to ANZ Workday Payroll practice growth through asset development, accelerators, and reusable solutions.
Stay current with Workday Payroll product updates and legislative changes.
Support internal training, certification, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Requirements

Extensive experience in Workday Payroll implementations and delivery leadership OR extensive experience in Australian Payroll implementations on other core Payroll solutions.
Strong knowledge of end-to-end payroll processes and compliance frameworks.
Proven ability to lead large-scale transformation programs and client engagements.
Experience managing integration and data migration activities in complex environments.
Strong commercial acumen with experience in pre-sales and solutioning.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Australian Citizenship with current or ability to gain Baseline Security Clearance.

Skills

Workday Payroll
Australian Payroll
Payroll Process Design
Payroll Testing
Stakeholder Management
Communication
Pre-sales
Solutioning
Workday HCM
Core HCM
Time Tracking
Absence
AU/NZ payroll legislation
Third-party payroll providers
Integrations

Location

Australia

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Lead

Education Level

Degree in HR, Finance, IT, or related discipline
Workday Payroll Certification (highly preferred)

Benefits

Comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development.
Opportunities to hone functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization.
Variety of formal and informal training programs at every level.
Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates.
Progressive Employee Benefits covering Health, Wellbeing, Progressive Leave Options, Sustainability.

About the Company

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale.
We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.
Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships.
We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability.
Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships.
We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Equal Opportunity

At Accenture, we recognise that our people are multi-dimensional, and we create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day.
Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity.
Our range of progressive policies support flexibility in ‘where’, when’ and ‘how’ our people work to ensure that Accenture is an organisation where you can strive for more, achieve great things and maintain the balance and wellbeing you need.
We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle.
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As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences.
These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.