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About the Role
This role is key to strengthening payroll governance and compliance, ensuring processes remain compliant, effective, and employee-centric while supporting the ongoing uplift of payroll governance across the organisation.
Responsibilities
- Drive payroll governance and compliance activities, ensuring payroll processes, controls and documentation align with legislative and organisational requirements.
- Conduct payroll audits, control testing and data analysis to identify risks, exceptions and opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Investigate payroll discrepancies, perform root cause analysis and partner with stakeholders to deliver timely and effective resolutions.
- Monitor payroll reporting, compliance metrics and governance registers, providing actionable insights to support informed decision-making.
- Support payroll transformation initiatives, system enhancements and testing activities to improve operational efficiency and control effectiveness.
- Collaborate with Payroll, Finance, Employee Relations, Technology and People & Culture teams to strengthen governance frameworks and ensure audit readiness.
Requirements
- Experience in payroll governance, compliance, audit, risk management, reporting, or payroll operations.
- Strong knowledge of Australian payroll legislation, including awards, enterprise agreements, superannuation and taxation requirements.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret payroll data, identify issues and drive effective resolutions.
- Proficiency in Excel and enterprise payroll systems such as SAP ECP or similar platforms.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and present insights clearly.
- Highly organised and detail-oriented, with experience supporting continuous improvement, controls testing, audits and payroll transformation initiatives.
Skills
- Payroll governance
- Compliance
- Audit
- Risk management
- Reporting
- Payroll operations
- Australian payroll legislation
- Excel
- SAP ECP
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
- Continuous improvement
- Controls testing
- Payroll transformation
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Experienced
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration
- Employee discounts
- $80 monthly credit
- 25% off Optus products
- Unique shopping discounts with retail partners
- Flexible working arrangements (3 days in office, 2 days remote)
- Competitive leave policies
- Additional 'Connected' days
- Up to 16 weeks paid Parental Leave
- Employee-led networks and diversity initiatives
- Free access to counselling and support services (24/7)
- Free Optus bus from Macquarie University Metro Station
About the Company
- Optus is an Australian telecommunications company, delivering more than 11 million services to our customers every day across mobile, broadband and digital solutions.
Equal Opportunity
- Optus values diversity and embraces individual differences.
- Committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
- Offers adjustments and accessibility support for recruitment process. Contact AccessibleRecruitment@optus.com.au or call 1800 309 170 for assistance.