About Them Our client is a service-oriented business, providing state-of-the-art diagnostic medical imaging across the country, with a commitment to ethical practices and exceptional customer service. About the Role A new opportunity exists for a People Compliance Lead (payroll governance focus) to join a wider People & Culture team at a leading specialist medical business. The People Compliance Lead is a critical governance role, accountable for assessing, overseeing, and strengthening compliance across the organisation with a focus in payroll governance. Reporting to a fantastic GM of People & Culture, this position ensures the business meets all People-related legislative, regulatory, payroll, and governance obligations across multiple industrial instruments and jurisdictions. It plays a central role in identifying risk, conducting gap analysis, implementing controls, and closing any compliance and governance gaps, ensuring their People practices, systems, and payroll operations are compliant, audit-ready, and continuously improving. The role involves, but not limited to: Maintain professional and technical knowledge of existing legislations and keep up to date with new legislation to comply with federal, state, legal requirements; ATO legislation; Fair Work Act; Payroll Tax by state and relevant industry awards; enforcing adherence to requirements and advising the Payroll Manager and GM P&C on required actions Update and maintain payroll procedures to ensure best-practice operations and continuous improvement practices Support P&C with reconciliations, analytics and audit requirements Act as the system expert for iChris, including system maintenance and documentation, award configuration and testing of payroll changes The role one direct report. About You Structured, detail-oriented payroll professional who enjoys ownership, accountability and working in a complex, multi industrial instruments environment Previous experience as a payroll processor with the ability to transition into a compliance‑focused role A strong interest in compliance, auditing, and governance High attention to detail, confidentiality and integrity when handling sensitive data Confident communicator who works well within a team environment. Advanced and proven Excel capability High attention to detail and confidence working at pace across multiple projects Experience managing people (1 direct report) Ability to work full-time in the office (inner-city Brisbane suburb) If you are an experienced Payroll/HR professional with a passion for compliance and governance and confident to lead risk mitigation and compliance maturity across People & Culture, this is a great opportunity for you. About Applying Follow the prompts on this page. For specific questions about this role, please contact Melissa Forwood at mforwood@thenextstep.com.au
