Payroll Officer
- Join a dynamic payroll team in a well-established retail organisation.
- Manage end-to-end payroll processing across multiple regions.
- Support the transition to a new payroll platform.
- $85k - $90k + Super
- 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract
- Great work culture & benefits
This well-established retail organisation has built a strong reputation across its market and continues to grow both locally and internationally. It's a business that invests in its people, offers real career progression, and takes the wellbeing of its team seriously.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Payroll Officer to join a busy dynamic payroll team, supporting the business through a period of growth and payroll systems change. Reporting to the Payroll Manager and working alongside a Senior Payroll Officer, you'll play a key part in delivering accurate, on-time payroll across multiple regions while helping prepare the business for its move to a new payroll platform. Your responsibilities will include:
- Assisting with end-to-end payroll processing across several regions and pay cycles
- Providing full processing cover during planned team leave, maintaining accuracy and continuity of every pay run
- Cleansing and validating payroll and employee data ahead of a systems transition
- Supporting the standardisation of payroll data in preparation for a new payroll and HRIS platform
- Ensuring compliance with Fair Work legislation, modern awards, superannuation and PAYG obligations, and supporting international statutory requirements
- Acting as a first point of contact for employee pay queries and resolving them professionally
- Assisting with payroll reconciliations, journals and reporting for Finance across month-end, year-end and audit
- Supporting payroll setup and onboarding as the retail network continues to expand
To be considered for this role, you will have 3–4 years of end-to-end Australian payroll experience, ideally including New Zealand, with sound working knowledge of Fair Work, modern awards, superannuation and PAYG. You'll be confident operating cloud-based payroll systems and will bring solid reconciliation, numeracy and advanced Excel skills. You're someone who works comfortably to tight pay cut-offs across multiple time zones, handles confidential data with absolute discretion, and takes genuine ownership of your work.
To apply, please contact Jenny Po at Lawson Elliott on (02) 8274 0209, quoting reference JP 18068.
Consultant
Jenny Po
jenny.po@lawsonelliott.com.au
Reference number: JP18068
Profession:AccountingPayroll
Company: Lawson Elliott
Date posted: 17th Aug, 2026
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