Why You’ll Love This Role
Step into a strategic leadership role shaping the future of payroll at Metcash. As Head of Payroll, you’ll drive enterprise-wide governance, transformation and compliance, ensuring payroll is accurate, scalable and fit for growth. With strong executive exposure, you’ll lead a high-performing team while influencing systems, risk frameworks and business outcomes across the organization.
Extra reasons to join us
✨ Flexibility & balance: Flex-Ready & Family Friendly accredited employer with additional leave benefits, hybrid working arrangements
📈 Grow your career: Ongoing leadership learning and development opportunities to support your growth
🤝 Inclusive & supportive: A values-led workplace recognised for inclusion, wellbeing and pay equity
Your role with Metcash
• Define and deliver the enterprise-wide payroll strategy and operating model (circa 10k employees!)
• Lead payroll governance, ensuring compliance with ATO, superannuation, payroll tax, awards and EBAs
• Drive payroll transformation, automation and system optimisation
• Provide oversight of end-to-end payroll operations, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery
• Lead, coach and build capability across the payroll and time & attendance teams
• Act as the senior SME for payroll, advising stakeholders across P&C, Finance and leadership
• Manage payroll risk, reporting and audit requirements at an enterprise level
• Support M&A activity and business change initiatives from a payroll perspective
What You’ll Bring
• Extensive payroll leadership experience in large, complex organisations
• Strong knowledge of Australian payroll legislation, compliance and governance frameworks
• Proven experience driving payroll transformation, automation and system optimisation
• Expertise and experience in payroll and related systems such as Chris21, Kronos or SuccessFactors
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence at senior levels
• Commercial mindset with a focus on risk, controls and continuous improvement
• Ability to interpret awards and EBAs and translate legislation into practical solutions
• Demonstrated leadership capability with a passion for developing high-performing teams
Be Part of Something Bigger
Backing local brilliance is at the heart of what we do. As Australia’s leading wholesale distribution company, Metcash proudly supports independent retailers behind iconic brands such as IGA, Foodland, Mitre 10, Total Tools, Cellarbrations and The Bottle O, fuelling an unstoppable network of independents across Australia.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are committed to supporting you throughout the recruitment process.
Please note: This role is being managed directly by our internal Talent Acquisition team – no agencies please.
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At Metcash, we’re the power behind an independent Australia & New Zealand. From the humble origins of our first family-owned corner store in 1927, we’ve been backing independents and strengthening the communities they operate in for almost 100 years. With a national network of more than 10,000 independent retailers and a further 90,000 wholesalers, we’re the driving force behind local, family-owned businesses – sticking up for the little guys and helping them become the best stores in town. And while we may be large in size, we’ll always be locals at heart.
Today we’re Australia and New Zealand’s leading independent retail partner and wholesaler in food, liquor and hardware. We have over 80 years of experience supporting and championing the interests of independent grocery, liquor and hardware sectors. Headquartered in Sydney, our world class distribution facilities across the country allow us to operate on a huge scale to unite Australia's independent grocers, delivering products to more than 10,000 retail premises and a further 90,000 wholesale customers across the food, grocery, liquor and hardware markets. Our network of Successful Independents includes a large portfolio of brands such as IGA, Foodland, Mitre 10, Home Timber & Hardware, Cellarbrations and the Bottle-O.
At Metcash we have a single purpose - Successful Independents - it is at the heart of everything we do. Success starts with our people. Employing over 6,000 people, Metcash champions the interests of the independent retail industry. We are a team of people who are resilient and empowered, who take initiative and pride in their work and above all operate with integrity. Our core operations are key to providing our customers and retailers with merchandising, operations and marketing support through our strong retail brands.
Whilst we operate on a huge scale, we think big but we act local. We believe that independence is worth fighting for and this is at the core of our business divisions.
