Senior Payroll Officer
Lead payroll ops at Visory. Own delivery, drive quality, and help scale an AI enabled service for small businesses across Australia and beyond.
At Visory, we're all about empowering businesses to unlock their full potential.
Launched in early 2020, we are a fast growing start up, and we have built Australia and New Zealand's first digital bookkeeping solution that supports small to medium sized businesses.
We supercharge their financial back-office by connecting them to a marketplace of certified Bookkeeping and Payroll Experts, backed by our powerful digital platform of best practice workflows.
The result; clean books, oversight of key financial indicators and freedom from their back-office so they can get back to big picture growth.
How you'll make an impact...
Own the full payroll cycle—timesheets to STP lodgement—for complex, award-driven Australian payrolls in Employment Hero / KeyPay. You will manage a portfolio of clients and be responsible for every employee being paid correctly and on time, every run; zero compliance breaches.We're looking for someone who thrives in operational detail, leads with accountability, and is hungry to build a best-in-class payroll service.
What You'll Be Doing...
End-to-End Processing
- Run the full pay cycle in KeyPay—from timesheets to STP lodgement—hitting every cut-off and pay date
Terminations
- Calculate redundancies, ETPs and leave in lieu; apply correct tax & STP 2 codes
Statutory Compliance
- Keep payroll fully compliant—STP, payroll-tax, WorkCover, FBT data and legislative watch
Superannuation Processing
- Calculate SG, salary-sacrifice & RESC; lodge batches
Leave Management
- Track all leave types; keep balances accurate and post monthly journals
Payroll Tax
- Register entities, calculate state payroll-tax liabilities, lodge monthly/annual returns, reconcile to GL and pay on time
Child-Support
- Apply deductions and liaise with Services Australia for on-time remittance
Strategic Collaboration
- Act as technical SME in our shift toward a more scalable marketplace payroll model, guiding the transition with expertise.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Operations, and Service teams to improve workflows and unlock future growth.
- Partner with leadership to shape the future direction of payroll delivery at Visory.
We're looking for someone who has...
- 7+ years Australian payroll across modern awards / EAs
- Power-user of Employment Hero / KeyPay (rules engine, custom GL, STP 2)
- Expert knowledge: award compliance, payroll tax (all states), super, portable LSL, workers comp, FBT
- Exposure to HRIS / Time and Attendance integrations (Tanda, Shiftcare, BambooHR) desirable
- Clear, confident English—able to translate payroll jargon into plain language for customers & stakeholders
Bonus Points If You...
- Have experience transitioning payroll teams to marketplace or outsourced service delivery models.
- Have implemented payroll tech or led platform enhancement initiatives that improved efficiency and quality.
- Have worked in high-growth or startup environments where you've built processes from the ground up.
What you'll love about working at Visory...
Shape the Future of Payroll Operations: Play a key role in designing the workflows, tools, and standards that power a category-defining back-office platform for SMEs.
Work at the Cutting Edge of Finance, Product & AI: Collaborate with product, engineering, and data experts to embed automation, streamline processes, and enhance service quality.
Thrive in a Flexible, High-Growth Environment: Join a fast-moving, cross-functional team that values experimentation, continuous improvement, and genuine work-life flexibility across Australia and New Zealand.
Make a Scaled Impact: Leverage your payroll expertise to influence how work is delivered across our entire marketplace—creating better outcomes for hundreds of businesses.
- Department
- Customer - Bookkeeping & Payroll
- Locations
- Philippines
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time