Payroll Compliance Lead
Hunter Manning ·www.huntermanning.com
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Hunter Manning is supporting our client to recruit a Payroll Compliance Specialist on a contract basis. This role suits an experienced payroll professional who thrives on getting into the detail — using advanced Excel to test, validate, and safeguard the integrity of payroll processes and outputs.
This is a great opportunity for a payroll specialist with a compliance-first mindset to bring those skills to a role with genuine variety and impact.
Key Responsibilities
Questions before applying? Contact Khale — khale.twomey@huntermanning.com
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This is a great opportunity for a payroll specialist with a compliance-first mindset to bring those skills to a role with genuine variety and impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Review payroll processes and outputs against legislative, award, and enterprise agreement requirements
- Conduct compliance checks and audits across payroll data, identifying and resolving discrepancies
- Reconcile payroll outputs to statutory obligations (PAYG, superannuation, payroll tax) and the general ledger
- Build and maintain Excel-based models and testing tools to detect errors, underpayments, or non-compliance
- Consolidate and validate payroll data across multiple systems to support compliance reporting
- Prepare compliance reports and dashboards for management and leadership
- Support internal and external audits with clean, well-structured, defensible data
- Solid background in payroll, with hands-on experience processing and compliance-checking payroll in a complex environment
- Strong working knowledge of Australian payroll legislation, awards/EAs, and superannuation obligations
- Advanced Excel skills — Power Query, pivot tables, XLOOKUP/INDEX-MATCH; VBA/macro experience highly regarded
- High attention to detail and confidence reconciling numbers across sources
- Comfortable working autonomously in a contract capacity
- Play a critical role in ensuring payroll accuracy and compliance for a well-established organisation
- Contract role with potential for extension for the right person
- Perth-based, supporting a well-established and welcoming team
Questions before applying? Contact Khale — khale.twomey@huntermanning.com
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The Payroll Compliance Lead role with Hunter Manning is based in Perth, WA, AU.
Is the Payroll Compliance Lead role full-time or contract?
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What experience level is the Payroll Compliance Lead role?
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