Senior Payroll Coordinator | Brisbane, West End

About Fitness & Lifestyle Group

Fitness & Lifestyle Group (FLG) is Asia Pacific's largest group of corporately owned health and wellness clubs — 310+ locations, 600,000+ members, and five of the region's most recognised fitness brands: Fitness First Australia, Goodlife Health Clubs, Jetts Fitness, Zap Fitness and Barry's.

We're headquartered in Australia with regional offices across South East Asia, and we're on a mission to help our global community live stronger, happier lives.

The Opportunity

As our Senior Payroll Coordinator, you'll be the technical expert within our Payroll team, ensuring our people are paid accurately, compliantly and on time while helping to build capability across the team.

Reporting to the Payroll Manager, you'll act as the first point of escalation for complex payroll matters, mentor Payroll Coordinators, and play a key role in continuously improving the way payroll is delivered across the business.

This is an exciting time to join FLG. We're currently midway through the implementation of Workday Payroll, transitioning from a managed payroll provider to a fully integrated, end-to-end in-house payroll solution. You'll have the rare opportunity to be part of this transformation—supporting system testing, process design, optimisation and continuous improvement while helping shape how payroll is delivered into the future.

If you enjoy combining technical expertise with leadership, solving complex payroll challenges and influencing meaningful change, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact on one of Australasia's largest health and wellness organisations.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate end-to-end fortnightly and monthly payroll processing for a large, complex workforce.

• Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex payroll enquiries and legislative matters.

• Coach, mentor and support Payroll Coordinators to build capability and drive payroll excellence.

• Review payroll outputs, reconciliations and reporting to ensure exceptional accuracy and compliance.

• Partner with People & Culture, Finance and leaders across the business to deliver outstanding payroll service.

• Support month-end, year-end and statutory reporting, including STP, superannuation and government obligations.

• Contribute to payroll projects, system enhancements, testing and ongoing Workday optimisation.

• Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, controls and service delivery.

About you

You'll be an experienced payroll professional who enjoys solving complex problems, supporting others and driving continuous improvement.

To be successful in this role, you'll have

• Extensive experience delivering end-to-end payroll within a high-volume, complex organisation.

• Strong knowledge of Australian payroll legislation, awards and compliance requirements.

• Experience mentoring, coaching or providing technical leadership within a payroll team.

• Confidence managing complex payroll queries and building trusted stakeholder relationships.

• Experience using enterprise payroll systems, with Workday experience highly regarded (ADP Payforce exposure is also advantageous).

• A continuous improvement mindset with experience supporting payroll projects, testing or system enhancements.

In return we offer you

• Complementary all access Goodlife Gym Membership, plus one for a friend 

• FLG is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance. We offer a hybrid work model, mixing 60/40 office (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday) and work-from-home responsibilities.   

• Modern open-plan office with onsite cafe and complimentary barista coffee

• Anniversary leave days and additional complimentary memberships through FLG's Recognition of Service Program   

• Be recognised and rewarded by your peers for living our values with FLG's People's Champion awards   

• Enjoy exclusive employee discounts with industry leading fitness, travel, fashion and retail brands through FLG's partner discount program 

• Employee Assistance Program

Our commitment to diversity & inclusion

At Fitness and Lifestyle Group we bring positive energy and attitude to work every day, we are proud of who we are and who we work for. We don't just accept individuality; we encourage it and acknowledge the value diversity and inclusivity brings to our organisation. We pride ourselves on empowering our team to be their authentic selves at work.

We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, people of all ages, race, sex, intersex status, gender identity, sexual orientation, people with a disability and from other diverse backgrounds.

Apply Now!

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