Payroll Team Leader – Administrative Review Tribunal
📌 Vacancy Fact Sheet
- Reference Number: VN-0770035
- Agency: Administrative Review Tribunal
- Job Title: Payroll Team Leader
- Position Number: 41151
- Classification: APS Level 6
- Closing Date: Thursday 11 June 2026
- Job Type: Full-Time, Ongoing;Non-Ongoing
- Location: Canberra ACT, Sydney NSW, Melbourne VIC
- Future Merit Locations: Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne
- Salary: $99,734 – $111,701
- Office Arrangement: Flexible;Hybrid (Hybrid, flexible)
About Administrative Review Tribunal
The Administrative Review Tribunal plays a crucial role in the Australian legal landscape, providing
a process for individuals and organisations to seek an independent review of decisions made
under a wide range of Commonwealth laws.
We believe in providing our employees with a work environment that is supportive and rewarding.
Our culture is one that welcomes all and we embrace flexibility and diversity. We believe our
people are our most valuable asset and we work to support the skills, knowledge and capability of
our staff.
You can learn more about the Tribunalon our website
What we offer:
We believe the little extras can make a big difference in supporting your success and some of our
great incentives include:
flexible working options, including flexi-time and remote working to support you with your
commitments outside of work.
competitive salary including generous superannuation employer contribution of 15.4%
salary packaging options
supportive career development opportunities
access to holistic health and wellbeing programs including Fitness Passport which provides
discount to 350+ gyms, free annual influenza vaccinations and free eye tests
generous leave allowances including Christmas to New Year office closure with no deduction
from your leave balance
Employee Assistance Program for you and your family
positive and inclusive culture
Read our for more information about our terms and conditions of employment. Enterprise Agreement
Duties
- Team Management: Manage a small team, allocate workload, set priorities ensuring the efficient
- and effective utilisation of available systems and resources, ensure harmonious and productive
- team interactions. Train new staff members as required, identify team members training needs
- and direct them to appropriate training courses, role model behaviours to demonstrate customer
- service and values required for success.
- Meet Service Levels: Ensure service levels are met; track team’s performance against KPIs,
- implement strategies to ensure work is completed in a timely manner.
- Function Management: Take responsibility for and actively manage higher level functions of the
- Payroll team including internal controls, standard operating procedures, overpayment
- management, leave liability register, inbox management, audit requests, checking completion and
- adherence to audit findings and recommendations. Understand complex issues; provide solutions;
- process complex transactions; ensure the processing is in compliance with relevant legislation and
- policies.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Provide advice to the team members and senior staff on a range of
- employment conditions. Apply the terms and conditions as defined in the Enterprise Agreement,
- Remuneration Tribunal Determinations, policies and all other applicable legislation. High level
- competency in Aurion payroll.
- Client Focus: Liaise with staff and members to seek understanding of their needs in delivering
- quality client service; take action to optimise the customer experience; take initiatives to support a
- highly engaged, high-performance culture; follow up any outstanding items with responsible
- officers; ensure services are delivered within agreed timeframes. Ability to handle difficult clients.
- To be successful you will have:
- Demonstrated experience in payroll processing, management and the interpretation,
- application and provision of sound practical advice relating to payroll staff at all levels. This
- includes the ability to problem solve with high attention to detail and accuracy.
- Havepreviousexperience inAustralian Public Service (APS) payroll environment.
- Experiencein leading acollaborativeteam and actively managingworkloads.
- Have the ability touseinitiative, beinnovative andbe committedto continuously improve
- processes and procedures.
- Confidence reviewingand analysingdata to make sound evidence-based decisions and
- complex problem solving with current legislation.
- Demonstratedexperience in Human Resource management systems – Aurion experience
- would be highly regarded.
- High levelof communication skills with the ability to build andmaintaineffective stakeholder
- relationships with a demonstrated ability to negotiate with influence.
Eligibility / Notes
- Essential:
- Leadership and management of a payroll team, within the Australian Public Service (APS)
- payroll environment
- The Tribunal requires Australian Citizenship as a condition of engagement.
- All employees are required to undertake an Australian Federal Police Check and a Health
- Assessment.
- Desirable:
- Experience in Aurion HRMIS or similar system
- Please submit a CV, cover letter, and upload a separate document addressing all the required
- capabilities as detailed in the position description.
How to Apply
Position Contact Marcelle Sheville, (02) 6243 4675
Agency Recruitment Site https://www.art.gov.au/about-us/careers
Applicants to vacancies notified in all formats of the electronic Public Service Gazette should be aware:
that the names of successful applicants will also be notified in all formats of the electronic Public Service Gazette
applicants found suitable may be offered similar employment opportunities by other Australian Public Service agencies
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