- Lead payroll compliance initiatives to ensure accuracy, integrity, and regulatory alignment.
- Senior specialist role focused on driving best practice across payroll processes and controls.
The opportunity
The Senior Payroll Compliance Specialist works across the business to provide a payroll compliance program to ensure regulatory and statutory compliance between the Regis payroll function and Workplace Relations. In ensuring that our systems, processes, ways of working and operational requirements are compliant with Enterprise Agreements and relevant Industrial Awards, Polices and Legislation, this role has a focus on continuous improvement opportunities.
The Senior Payroll Compliance Specialist will work collaboratively with key stakeholders in the business to ensure accurate payroll outcomes, risk identification and mitigation with a view to minimising future risk for Regis.
You apply your deep knowledge of payroll operations, and your passion for embedding a compliance mindset. With the ability to interpret and understand relevant legislation, industrial instruments (EA’s and Awards) and our policies and practices you provide expert advice and tools to leaders.
Join our passionate team who love what they do and can support you in building your career at our Regis Home. Our continuity of carer model means you will have the time to build strong relationships through being the familiar face our residents rely upon.
At over 84 locations supported by 12,000 employees across Australia, there are endless opportunities to grow or progress your career in any way you want.
How you will make an impact as a Senior Payroll Compliance Specialist
Industrial instrument payroll compliance
- Develop the end-to-end payroll compliance framework across the key stakeholder groups responsible for the configuration of enterprise agreements into related payroll systems.
- Ensure Payroll systems, processes, ways of working and operational requirements are compliant with Enterprise Agreements and relevant Industrial Awards, Polices and Legislation etc.
- Develop a compliance assurance framework that documents how agreements are fully implemented and reviewed to be consistent with Regis policy, contracts and related materials to ensure future compliance.
- Assist with implementing any policy, award, agreement changes in the system in a timely manner.
Payroll compliance risk and controls
Reducing or negating employment and industrial law risks in payroll compliance, including but not limited to:
- Respond to identified issues or breaches to ensure future payroll compliance
- Proactively explore and raise improvement ideas to ensure future payroll compliance
- Document and regularly review systems for future payroll compliance
- Manage with a focus on pragmatism, legal compliance, internal collaboration, creative problem solving, reduction in commercial and other risks and with high engagement and service to Operational leaders.
Deliver Key Projects including Compliance capability building program
- Advice, input, and guidance for P&C and Workplace Relations initiatives including Work Value Case Stage 3, Annual Wage Review as well as support the major project delivery of Phoenix as required and requested.
- Work with internal stakeholders to develop and implement payroll compliance initiatives and thinking into change management activities
- Develop and deliver, in accordance with the Workplace Relations strategy and Enterprise bargaining strategy, a compliance capability building program for implementation.
What you will bring to the role
- Payroll operations, Analyst or Compliance background (Essential)
- Experience in health is desirable.
- Demonstrated understanding of payroll compliance principles.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret and understand relevant industrial awards and agreements and related legislative, regulatory and statutory obligations.
- Leadership – Constructive and collaborative style, proactively shares expertise, coaches and mentors team members.
- Action Orientation - Results driven, works with a sense of urgency, highly motivated and energetic and consistently maintains productivity.
- Interpersonal Skills – Strong ability to influence others.
- Planning & Organising - Exceptional time management and organisational skills with an 'eye for detail', flexible and responsive, establishes priorities, ability to juggle multiple tasks and work to deadlines.
- Change Management - Experience in managing and leading through change and delivering new strategic initiatives from implementation through to conclusion.
- Stakeholder Management - Sound ability to develop effective and valued relationships with executive leadership, senior leaders and the broader business.
- Judgement & Problem Solving - Sound judgement and problem-solving skills with ability to effectively and efficiently solve complex issues and navigate through new situations, with a forward-thinking approach.
Benefits that support and reward you
- Enjoy a flexible working environment giving you better life balance and wellbeing
- Lots of opportunities to realise your potential in an organisation that invests in your personal development.
- Be supported to grow, learn, and explore new career pathways or specialisations across Australia
- Salary Sacrifice – Novated Lease (Maxxia)
- Caring for your wellbeing through discounts on health insurance and gym membership, and free access to counselling, financial guidance and personal support
- An Employee Referral Program, where you can get financially rewarded for recommending friends for roles at Regis
- Plus, we have reward and recognition programs celebrating your hard work
Belonging at Regis SOHO
This role is based at Regis’ National Head Office, located at Level 2, 293 Camberwell Road, Camberwell VIC. The office offers a modern, collaborative workspace in Melbourne’s inner east, with easy access to public transport, cafes, and local amenities.
We are proud to support over 10,000 residents and clients across residential aged care homes, home care, retirement living, day therapy and day respite centres. The work we do positively impacts the lives of older people and their families. It really is work you can feel good about.
What our people love about working here
As a team that supports older people to live life on their terms, we genuinely care - for our people, our work and the elderly. We make a big deal of recognising and supporting you, creating a culture of mutual respect, and offering more opportunities to build your career.
We believe in the power of hearts and minds. We know how the little things make a real difference. We are a close-knit, collaborative team that values kindness and puts your wellbeing first. Our commitment to your safety shines through in our Circle of Care initiative, the winner in the Safer and Supported Workforce Awards 2024, which ensures you are physically and psychologically safe at work. We want you to feel seen, valued, and respected for who you are as an individual and the professional skills you bring to the team. We celebrate your work, support your life outside of work and consider you one of our own from the start.
At Regis, real impact starts with you.
No matter your role, you can take pride in knowing you are making a real, lasting impact on people’s lives and helping to shape the future of aged care in Australia. It is work you can feel good about. #JoinRegis
To work in residential aged care, you will need to provide satisfactory background checks, including NDIS or police check (role dependent), current year flu vaccination, and certification proof.
