Description

At VetPartners, we support more than 270 veterinary clinics across Australia and New Zealand, enabling our teams to deliver outstanding care to pets and their owners. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and payroll plays a vital role in supporting them.

We’re looking for an experienced Payroll Team Leader, to lead our Payroll Team, working within a hybrid role (4 days in office 1 from home) dog friendly office. In this role you will be leading a highly skilled team of ten and be responsible for our Australian and New Zealand payroll for approximately 5.000 employees across our clinics and offices.  

Reporting directly to the Head of Payroll, you’ll bring hands on technical expertise to support a fast paced payroll function, ensuring queries and reviews across areas like employee data, leave and superannuation calculations, manual data errors, payroll tax, and award or agreement requirements are handled accurately. You’ll also have the opportunity to coach team members while maintaining strong compliance.

Key responsibilities  

• Deliver accurate and timely end to end payroll processing, ensuring exceptional attention to detail, within Micropay.
• Manage priorities and workloads effectively, stepping in to resolve complex payroll matters when required.
• Conduct regular audits across payroll data, workflows, and outputs to uphold compliance and data integrity.
• Ensure all payroll activities meet Australian and New Zealand legislation, awards, and enterprise agreements.
• Oversee PAYG/PAYE, Superannuation/KiwiSaver, payroll tax, and statutory reporting requirements.
• Prepare high quality payroll reports and collaborate closely with internal teams during audits.
• Provide specialist expertise across areas such as complex taxation, terminations, statutory leave, and award interpretation.
• Maintain robust payroll governance, including the auditing of masterfile and payment records.
• Support seamless post-acquisition onboarding and payroll data integration.
• Lead, coach, and develop payroll team members while building strong partnerships with People & Culture, Finance, Operations, and external vendors, including managing queries via Jira or similar platforms.

About you
You are a confident payroll leader with a strong compliance mindset and a genuine commitment to service excellence. You enjoy solving complex problems, sharing knowledge, and supporting your team to grow.

You will bring:

• 7+ years’ end-to-end payroll experience across Australia and/or New Zealand
• At least 2 years’ experience leading or supervising a payroll team
• Strong working knowledge of payroll legislation and statutory obligations
• Hands-on experience with Micropay
• Experience in payroll audits, governance or M&A activities (highly regarded)
• Strong attention to detail and data integrity
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Tertiary payroll certification desirable (or equivalent practical experience)

Why join VetPartners

• Purpose-led work: Make a meaningful difference every day by supporting those who care for pets and their families
• Autonomy & impact: Know that your contributions directly support a meaningful mission every single day
• Collaborative culture: Work alongside passionate, committed people who value learning and growth
• Development opportunities: Ongoing professional development and the chance to grow with a dynamic organisation

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please apply via the link with your resume demonstrating your payroll experience and leadership background.
This role features a hybrid work arrangement, with four days in our dog friendly office to promote collaboration, build strong connections, and enhance team engagement, and will directly support our mission of delivering exceptional veterinary care. 
VetPartners is committed to Equal Employment Opportunities. We are dedicated to providing an inclusive, diverse, and flexible workplace where differences are valued. We welcome people of all backgrounds, experience and abilities.
A note to recruitment agencies: We are not accepting candidates from recruitment agencies.  We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.