Corporate Support Corporate Services & Payroll Manager

• Experienced Corporate Services & Payroll Manager – high profile company
• $150k-$180k + super – Responsible for Payroll, Accounts & IT Support Areas
• Based in Perth CBD – Global Engineering & Construction Organisation

Our Client:

Work for a high profile global engineering & construction company who have a massive pipeline of high profile projects throughout Australia. Our client has forged a strong brand and reputation delivering projects into the areas of Infrastructure, Resources and Energy.

The Exciting Opportunity:

This high-profile senior leadership position has become available and you will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of all group Corporate Support Services including Payroll, AP/AR and Oracle Support.

The priority is that Payroll services are delivered efficiently & on time whilst meeting strict payroll deadlines. The position requires you to have strong experience managing a payroll team who deliver complex payroll services for 800+ employees, across multiple sites working across multiple EBA’s.

Please note that you are managing the Oracle Support Team and will not be responsible for technical IT related matters as they have a separate IT Team and Manager who will focus on the technical matters – this is purely the ‘people management’ aspect for the team.

You will be responsible for:

• Leadership of a team of 14 – 16 (including Oracle Support, Payroll, AP/AR)
• Management of Service Level Agreements for the delivery of Corporate Support Services to the business
• Preparation and submission of Payment Times Reports
• Preparation and submission of WGEA reporting
• Monitoring and analysis of budget
• Project Management and overseeing system upgrades and liaison with vendors
• Ensure operational alignment with strategic goals
• Improvement strategies and transformation, ensuring the corporate services function is aligned with the business
• Manage business processes for corporate support functions (transaction processing and payroll) ensuring relevance, accuracy, compliance, and innovative continuous improvement to align with ERP
• Development and maintain accurate up to date process documentation underpinning ERP
• Change advocate – evaluate and challenge the performance, ease of use and ongoing purpose/relevancy of all aspects of our transnational data and processes and be an advocate for positive change
• Proactively identifies business needs and issues, working with business process owners to solve functional problems, explaining functional process improvement opportunities, and working to build consensus
• Convert business needs to functional process designs and lead business stakeholders toward design decisions
• Driving and support a culture of cooperation and collaboration between Corporate Services and business units.
• Engagement with senior stakeholders to identify, communicate and remediate issues
• Streamline and simplify ERP transactional processes
• Provide support, coaching and advice to your team including training & development
• Ensure ERP is configured with appropriate, and approvals are in line with procedures and delegation of authority
• Ensure change management processes and approvals and followed in accordance with operating standards

Essential Criteria:

• Exceptional people leader skills
• Must have managed a large multi-site payroll team delivering services to 800+ employees
• Strong knowledge of Payroll and Statutory requirements for the payroll function
• Must be conversant with all Payroll Statutory requirements
• Implementation and management of ERP systems and process mapping
• Strong experience with creation and embedding of ERP process documentation
• Development of ERP manuals and training documentation
• Experience implementing and maintaining Service Level Agreements
• Change Management
• Strong transactional processing experience
• Proven delivery of accurate and detailed reporting
• Capability of influencing and directing senior management and line management

What you can expect in return:

• Highly competitive salary – $150k-$180k + super
• 2 days Working From Home
• Work for a highly reputable engineering & construction global organisation
• Great company culture and people
• Join a hugely successful business with multiple high-profile projects

Please send your updated resume to Tanzela Azam – Senior Associate Director by clicking ‘apply now’.