Payroll Governance Lead

Working at Transurban is different; it’s a place where you can see the benefits of your work play out in real life, every day. We create city-sized solutions—building and operating safer, smarter, and more sustainable roads—to solve pressing transport challenges that are slowing cities down. 

About the role 
 

We’re seeking a Payroll Governance Lead to establish and embed the governance foundations that keep our payroll accurate, accountable, and future-ready.

This is a pivotal role responsible for designing and leading the payroll governance framework across Transurban. You’ll bring structure, clarity, and discipline to how payroll operates, ensuring clear accountability, consistent processes, and strong controls across a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.

Working closely with Payroll, Finance, Technology, Legal, Risk and the broader business, you’ll drive operational excellence and governance maturity, ensuring payroll is not only compliant but scalable and resilient as we grow and transform.

As our Payroll Governance Lead you’ll contribute to lasting and positive changes that shape the future of our cities and communities. It’s meaningful, challenging and exciting work. 

Day-to-day, you will: 

• Establish and continuously evolve the payroll governance framework, including controls, standards and structures across the end-to-end payroll lifecycle
• Define and manage governance forums, ensuring clear decision-making, oversight, and timely outcomes
• Create clarity across payroll by defining roles, responsibilities and accountability (RACI) and removing ambiguity across stakeholders
• Drive process improvement and automation, ensuring sustainable, efficient payroll operations
• Partner across the business to uplift governance capability and ensure consistent adoption of best practice ways of working
• Provide insights and reporting to leadership on governance effectiveness, risks, and opportunities for improvement
• Ensure governance remains robust through system changes, transformations and ongoing payroll evolution

This role will suit someone with a curious mind and transferrable skills and experiences, including: 

• Demonstrated experience in governance, operating models, or control frameworks within a complex organisation
• A strong understanding of payroll processes and the broader payroll ecosystem
• Proven ability to define accountability frameworks and decision-making structures
• Experience delivering process or system change in payroll or shared services environments
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse groups
• A continuous improvement mindset with a focus on standardisation, efficiency, and sustainability
• Experience with ERP or payroll systems such as Workday

If you meet some of these requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application. 

With a career at Transurban, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits, including:  

• A range of flexible working and leave options, including the option to purchase an additional six weeks of leave each year  
• 16 weeks paid parental leave (regardless of gender or carer status), with no waiting period, with Superannuation paid during unpaid leave as well
• Learning and development opportunities to support your career interests 
• Health and wellbeing support—access to Headspace and our EAP program, wellness facilities, and more 
• Share offers and insurance benefits 
• Social activities, community give-back programs and paid volunteer days 

We offer a range of flexible working and leave options, so you can balance your work and life commitments and interests. Have a conversation with us about how this could work for you.  
 

We embrace diversity with a foundation of safety, wellbeing and inclusion; where everyone belongs. We treat everyone with fairness, consideration and respect, regardless of gender, gender identity, marital or family status, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, religious beliefs, cultural or socio-economic background, perspective, and experience – whether they work for us or not. We want to ensure everyone feels comfortable and safe to express ideas, questions and concerns. 

We strongly encourage applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experiences, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people living with disability. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please contact us on [email protected].  

Ready to help us keep cities moving? Apply today. 

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