About the Company
Join a leading Australian bank undergoing a significant payroll transformation, with a focus on strengthening governance, driving remediation activities and improving payroll processes and controls.
About the Role
As the Project Manager, you will be responsible for driving the delivery of a payroll transformation initiative, ensuring effective governance, remediation and business readiness throughout the project lifecycle.
Working closely with senior stakeholders across payroll, HR, finance, risk and technology, you will play a key role in managing project delivery, addressing operational challenges and ensuring the successful implementation of improved payroll processes and controls.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of payroll transformation and remediation initiatives.
- Establish and maintain strong project governance, reporting frameworks and risk management processes.
- Oversee remediation activities, ensuring identified gaps, risks and control weaknesses are appropriately addressed.
- Manage project plans, milestones, dependencies, budgets and deliverables.
- Work closely with payroll, HR, finance, technology and risk stakeholders to drive project outcomes.
- Support business readiness activities, including process improvements, stakeholder engagement and implementation planning.
- Prepare and present project updates, risks and recommendations to senior leadership and governance forums.
- Ensure project delivery meets internal compliance, regulatory and operational requirements.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will bring strong project management experience within complex, highly governed environments, alongside a solid understanding of payroll operations and transformation.
We are particularly interested in candidates who have:
- Demonstrated experience delivering payroll transformation, payroll remediation or payroll-related change initiatives.
- A strong background in banking or financial services, ideally within a large Australian organisation.
- Extensive experience managing project governance, risk, compliance and remediation activities.
- Strong knowledge of payroll processes, controls and operational challenges.
- Experience managing complex stakeholder groups across business and technology functions.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities, project risks and delivery deadlines.
- Excellent communication skills, with confidence presenting to senior stakeholders and governance committees.
- Experience supporting business readiness, implementation and operational transition activities.
The Benefits
- Opportunity to contribute to a significant payroll transformation initiative.
- Work within a leading Australian financial services organisation.
- High-profile project with exposure to senior business stakeholders.
- Hybrid working arrangements - CBD office
Please submit your current resume to apply. If you have the relevant experience listed above and require further information, please contact Tara Gearon at tara.gearon@davidsonwp.com quoting reference JN -112026-44646. To learn more about Davidson, visit davidsonwp.com.
