Location: Liverpool
Salary Package: $90k - $95k + Super
Role Highlights:
A well-established national logistics business is expanding rapidly and looking for a skilled Payroll Officer to join its high-performing team. With operations across multiple sites, the company supports key players in essential industries and has experienced significant growth over the past five years.
This business operates in a high-volume, blue-collar environment and is currently undergoing digitisation and payroll transformation, making this an exciting time to join and help shape the future.

Role Overview
Reporting to a highly experienced Payroll Manager, you'll be part of a close-knit team of 4 and take ownership of end-to-end payroll for 1000+ employees. The environment is dynamic and complex, covering a number of different business entities, a mix of EAs and awards, and a large casual workforce.This is a hands-on role with clear potential to step into a 2IC/team lead position if demonstrating the right attitude and skills.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end weekly payroll processing (~1000+ employees across 16 locations)
• Complex EBA and modern award interpretation
• Manual adjustments, long service leave calculations, and data validations
• Superannuation and payroll tax compliance
• Labour allocation and ad hoc reporting/analysis
• Managing manual and digital timesheets (Kronos)
• Payroll amendments, new employee setups, and onboarding
• Involvement in payroll process improvement and system projects

Candidate Profile
You're a confident payroll professional with a solid foundation and are ready to take the next step in your career. You thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy solving problems, and have a keen interest in improving processes. With 3-5 years of experience in medium-to-large complex payroll environments (500+ employees), you bring strong hands-on skills, including manual processing and payroll adjustments. You have strong Excel experience with pivot tables and VLOOKUPs, and have worked with time and attendance systems, ideally Kronos. Your deep understanding of EBAs, awards, and IFA agreements complements your experience with ERP systems. Highly analytical and detail-oriented, you are driven to ensure accuracy and compliance. A qualification in payroll or finance would be a valuable advantage.

Culture & Benefits
You'll be joining a close-knit payroll function that values hard work, open communication, and mutual support. The broader workplace is vibrant and diverse. The pace is fast, the expectations are high, but the environment is friendly, professional, and genuinely people-focused. If you're someone who enjoys rolling up your sleeves and being part of a team that gets things done, you'll fit right in.

• Grow your career - broaden your business acumen with a pathway to 2IC
• Be rewarded - $95k - $95k + Super
• Be part of something bigger - help shape the payroll transformation journey

Apply
If this sounds like you, please send your resume by clicking the "apply" link below. The reference number for this role is EI58880 Please allow for 3 - 5 working days for us to process all the applications. All applicants will hear back from us, either via email or a telephone call.