Payroll Project Team Leader

Why Your Role Matters

At UNSW, we're committed to ensuring every employee is paid accurately, fairly and in line with legislative requirements. As Payroll Project Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening payroll compliance, leading critical remediation and improvement initiatives, and helping to build sustainable pay confidence across the University.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead payroll project activities, ensuring compliance objectives, reporting requirements and project milestones are delivered successfully.
• Manage complex payroll remediation activities, including claims processing, back-pay calculations and compliance-related adjustments.
• Drive payroll compliance through audits, monitoring activities and risk identification, implementing corrective actions where required.
• Build strong partnerships across Payroll, People & Culture, Employee Relations, Finance and Systems teams to support compliant and effective payroll outcomes.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives, including process enhancements, governance frameworks, system improvements and team capability development.
• Analyse payroll data and performance metrics to provide insights, recommendations and support informed decision-making.
• Provide expert advice on payroll legislation, compliance matters and escalated payroll enquiries.