Manager, Payroll Services

Ready to lead a high-performing regional payroll service at one of Victoria's most progressive regional hospitals ? Join the Gippsland Regional Payroll Service at Latrobe Regional Health, where a ‘world of opportunities awaits'.

Latrobe Regional Health (LRH) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Manager, Payroll Services on a full-time ongoing basis to oversee the delivery of an accurate, consistent, and high-quality payroll service across the Gippsland Health region. This pivotal role ensures compliance with legislation, industrial agreements, and organisational protocols while driving continuous improvement and operational excellence. 

As a strategic leader, you will be the subject matter expert for payroll across the region, guiding process enhancements, managing system upgrades, and fostering a culture of accountability, accuracy, and service excellence.

About the role

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, you will lead the Gippsland Regional Payroll Service, providing strategic leadership to a high-performing team delivering payroll services across Latrobe Regional Health and Gippsland Health Service partners. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of a regional shared service through strong leadership, governance, innovation and continuous improvement while building trusted partnerships and driving service excellence 

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership of the payroll service, including coaching and mentoring direct reports, fostering a high performing culture. 
• Lead the governance framework for the Gippsland Regional Payroll Service. 
• Ensure robust payroll governance, legislative compliance and effective internal controls are maintained. 
• Develop and maintain payroll policies, procedures and governance documentation. 
• Oversee the governance, intregrity and optimisation of payroll systems, including SAP, KRONOS, and SuccessFactors. 
• Lead payroll audits, reconciliations, and end-of-financial-year processes, delivering accurate reporting to stakeholders.
• Drive process improvements, efficiency gains, and regional collaboration through forums, technical upgrades, and best practice sharing.
• Provide guidance, training, and support to staff and managers on payroll-related matters, ensuring compliance and service excellence.

About you

Ideal candidates for this role will have:

• Qualifications in Business, Human Resources, Finance, Management or related discipline, or equivalent experience. 
• Extensive senior-level payroll management experience, particularly in multi-site or regional operations.
• Demonstrated strategic leadership capability, with the ability to lead, coach and develop high performing teams while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement
• High developed stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills. 
• Strong expertise in payroll compliance, including interpretation and application of Awards, Agreements, and industrial relations legislation.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills.  

Latrobe Regional Health offers a range of benefits including:

• Salary packaging up to $9,000 per annum.
• Meals/Entertainment benefit up to $2,650 per annum.
• Multidisciplinary teamwork across the hospital.
• Encouragement for professional development and ongoing education.
• A range of social club activities, discounts and diverse workplace activities.
• Free access to our Staff Wellbeing Centre offering health education and wellbeing services.
• Discounted gym & leisure services through Fitness Passport

Interested about this exciting opportunity, but want more information? We encourage you to contact Michael Glaubitz, Chief Financial Officer via email: Michael.Glaubitz@lrh.com.au for a confidential discussion. Please click here for a copy of the Position Description.

About us

Located in the picturesque region of Gippsland, Latrobe Regional Health (LRH) offers the perfect balance between career and lifestyle. Enjoy easy access to Melbourne, stunning beaches, majestic mountains, and serene lakes. With flexible working hours, you can make the most of what Gippsland has to offer.

LRH cares for a population of about 300,000 and is the regional provider of specialist services. Our catchment covers 42,000 square kilometres, from Phillip Island to Mallacoota in the far east of Victoria. LRH offers cardiac care, surgery, medical, renal, emergency care, aged care, women's and children's services, pharmacy, allied health and rehabilitation. Medical and radiation oncology are offered by the Gippsland Cancer Care Centre.

Now is an exciting time to join the LRH team, with the $223.5 million expansion completed in March 2024, offering improved maternity and paediatric facilities, larger intensive care unit, increased medical and surgical beds and additional operating theatres.

How to apply

Join us in our mission to provide exceptional healthcare services to our community. Apply today and make a difference in the lives of our patients and their families. Please click the APPLY button to be directed to our Careers page for direct application. Applications should include a cover letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria and current resume.

Applications close: 18th August 2026

Explore all the great things happening at LRH by visiting our Careers and Training page of our website www.lrh.com.au/Careers-and-Training/ and take the next step in your career journey.

Before commencement, the successful applicant will

Provide evidence of an original and valid National Police Record Check, an employee Working with Children Check, and a current season influenza vaccine (if applicable to work area), unless a valid medical exemption applies. 

Diversity and inclusion

We actively embrace workforce diversity, equity and inclusion, and encourage applications from across our community, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. LRH's Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officer is available to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent applicants and can be contacted via email: AboriginalHealthUnit@lrh.com.au