Position Title: Payroll Specialist – Backpayment Project
Contract Type: Full-time, 6-Month Contract
Hourly Rate: $55 - $65 per hour + Super
Location: Melbourne – Initial weeks onsite, then Work from Home flexibility
Confidential Role
About the Role We’re currently seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Payroll Specialist to support a complex aged care backpayment project. This is a 6-month contract opportunity with an immediate start. You will play a key role in auditing and reconciling historical payroll data, ensuring compliance with enterprise agreements (EAs), employment contracts, and statutory entitlements.
Reporting to the Payroll Manager and working alongside the broader HR and Finance teams, you will be instrumental in managing underpayment calculations, long service leave (LSL) validation, and pay progression analysis.

Key Responsibilities

• Audit and calculate 62 identified underpayments related to aged care employees
• Review and reconcile data across TechOne payroll system and employee records
• Analyse and apply pay progression structures across multiple Enterprise Agreements (14 groups)
• Validate and interpret employment contracts, ensuring compliance with awards and NES
• Track and manage annual pay uplift cycles and historical changes over multiple years
• Provide support to the Payroll team (2000 employees), particularly during periods of high volume
• Demonstrate working knowledge of long service leave (LSL) legislation and calculations
• Ensure all work is compliant with industrial relations obligations and internal governance
• Liaise with stakeholders across payroll, HR, and compliance teams
• Download and match payroll data from the system with internal records and manual inputs

Skills & Experience Required

• Proven experience as a Payroll Specialist or Senior Payroll Officer in aged care, health, or government sectors
• Solid understanding of Enterprise Agreements, employment contracts, and backpay methodologies
• Hands-on experience using TechnologyOne (TechOne)
• Strong reconciliation, auditing, and data validation skills
• High attention to detail and ability to work under tight deadlines
• Strong interpersonal skills – comfortable working collaboratively and independently
• Experience working in high-churn, high-volume environments

Additional Information

• Start Date: ASAP
• Interview Process: 1 stage interview
• Initial training/onboarding onsite, then flexible WFH
• Contract is confidential, working on a sensitive remediation project