Payroll Manager

About us

Norton Rose Fulbright is a global legal practice. We provide the world's pre-eminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 4000 lawyers based in over 58 offices across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.

The opportunity
 
We are seeking an experienced Payroll Manager to join our Finance team on a 3-month fixed-term contract commencing in early September.
 
This role has been created to provide payroll leadership and additional capacity during a busy period, supporting both business-as-usual payroll operations and key payroll projects, including a planned period of leave within the team. You will lead a small payroll function, including one direct report, and oversee the end-to-end payroll function for approximately 850 employees across fortnightly and monthly payroll cycles. In addition to managing day-to-day payroll operations, the successful candidate will support internal audit activities and payroll system troubleshooting, as required.
 
Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of fortnightly and monthly payroll processing, ensuring accuracy, compliance and timeliness.
• Provide leadership, coaching and support to the Senior Payroll Officer.
• Act as the key escalation point for complex payroll queries and stakeholder matters.
• Ensure compliance with payroll legislation, Single Touch Payroll requirements, superannuation obligations and internal policies.
• Manage payroll reconciliations, reporting, salary packaging and payroll-related audits.
• Partner closely with People & Culture and Finance teams on payroll matters, employee lifecycle activities and reporting requirements.
• Produce payroll reports, reconciliations and insights for management and key stakeholders.
• Support payroll-related project activities, including system enhancements, testing and process improvement initiatives.
• Support month-end activities and maintain robust payroll processes, controls and documentation.
• Support Aurion system administration and payroll-related system activities.

Requirements 

• Significant end-to-end payroll experience within a medium to large organisation, ideally within a law firm, professional services, financial services or similarly complex environment.
• Experience managing fortnightly and monthly payroll cycles.
• Strong knowledge of Australian payroll legislation and compliance requirements.
• Experience supervising, mentoring or leading payroll team members, or acting as a senior payroll subject matter expert.
• Aurion experience highly desirable; Workday exposure advantageous.
• Strong reporting, reconciliation and stakeholder management skills.
• Highly organised, detail-oriented and able to manage competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment.

Why Norton Rose Fulbright?

Norton Rose Fulbright values diversity and strives to create an inclusive environment. We are proud that Norton Rose Fulbright in Australia has been recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) as well as a gold tier employer for LGBTI Inclusion through the Australian Workplace Equality Index. In 2025 we were re-accredited as a Family Inclusive Workplace and always encourage people to discuss flexible and hybrid work options with us.

We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates to apply.

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