Full-time - Finance Team - Melbourne Are you ready to help shape the future of payroll and workforce systems across a growing aged care organisation? We’re looking for a transformationminded payroll professional who thrives on improving processes, strengthening compliance, and creating userfriendly ways of working. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in an organisationwide workforce systems transformation - modernising how we roster, pay, and support our people. Why This Role Matters As the Payroll & Rostering Transformation Lead , you’ll combine payroll and rostering expertise with a passion for process improvement to help deliver a futureready operating model. You’ll champion simpler workflows, stronger controls, and a better experience for employees - especially our frontline teams. Your work will directly influence how effectively our homes operate and how confidently our people engage with payroll and rostering systems. You’ll Work Closely With Finance Project Transformation Team Operations & Home Leadership People & Culture This role reports to the Payroll Manager What You’ll Be Doing Support Payroll & Rostering Transformation Act as a payroll and rostering subjectmatter contributor within the Systems Transformation Project. Build a deep understanding of current processes, dependencies, and compliance requirements. Help design and implement streamlined, fitforpurpose processes that reduce manual work and improve accuracy. Work closely with homes and operational teams to ensure futurestate processes are practical and easy to adopt. Apply a strong aged care compliance lens, including accurate interpretation of rosters, Enterprise Agreements and the Aged Care Award. Identify compliance risks early and support the embedding of strong controls to ensure audit readiness. Advocate for usercentric design to enhance the experience for frontline staff, managers, and payroll teams. Support Payroll Operations & Capability Provide payroll processing support during periods of leave to ensure continuity. Maintain clear, uptodate payroll process documentation. Support training and capability uplift within the payroll team. Deliver targeted guidance to operational and People & Culture teams. Help reduce keyperson dependency through crosstraining and shared knowledge. What You Bring Qualifications Tertiary qualifications in Accounting, Finance, Business, or equivalent experience in payroll, rostering, or systems transformation. Skills & Experience Strong experience in aged care payroll and rostering compliance. Handson involvement in HRIS, payroll, or rostering system transformations. Deep understanding of endtoend payroll and rostering processes. Working knowledge of aged care operational rostering practices. Advanced MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills. Ability to codesign practical solutions with operational teams. A collaborative, resilient, and adaptable mindset. Ability to understand EBA pay rules and a working knowledge of operational rosters within an aged care setting would be desirable Passion for continuous improvement and lifting process maturity. Benefits & Work Culture with For Purpose Aged Care: As a purpose led, not-for-profit organisation, our staff’s health and wellbeing are important to us. This is why we have partnered with selected providers to offer employees a growing range of benefits that make sure they get the most out of their working and personal life, including: Tax savings of up to $15,900 per year with Salary Packaging (Go Salary) Team lunches Team building events Exclusive staff discounts with JB Hi-Fi, Endota Spa and more CommBank Workplace banking State of the art technology to help staff work smarter Salary sacrificing options with superannuation Novated Leasing through Enlist HESTA benefits for members Access EAP – a voluntary, confidential and free counselling service Ausmed Passport Ready to Make an Impact? If you’re passionate about transforming systems, improving compliance, and making life easier for frontline teams, we’d love to hear from you.
