Payroll Compliance Lead

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

• 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

About You

• 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

Why Apply

• 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

If you're a payroll professional with an eye for compliance and advanced Excel skills, we'd love to hear from you.
Questions before applying? Contact Khale — ************@huntermanning.com

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