Date: Aug 26, 2025
Job Posting End Date:
Job Country:
Australia
Job State/Province: Queensland
Job Location/Region: Brisbane
About BHP
At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.
Come and be a part of this success
About the Role
Global Business Services - Hire to Retire”, together with our partners, aims to deliver accurate, timely and compliant pay with zero errors, across 15 countries, enabling BHP’s ‘Our Strategy’ through process efficiency and flexibility.
Reporting into the Head of GBS HR Payroll, you will be a key part of the global payroll team, a team of forward thinking and engaging professionals that love to work in a high-paced environment. Together, we will redefine, standardize, control and continually improve pay impacting processes globally, whilst you will be accountable for delivering a world-class payroll to our employees in Australia.
- As the Payroll Manager – Australia, you will be accountable for all payroll activities, ensuring the payroll processes / technology are ‘fit for purpose’, whilst maintaining global consistency where possible. More specifically, your role will include:
- Accountable for payroll processing in Australia, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant pay, including base pay, stock compensation, payroll taxes, pension, statutory and supplemental benefits.
- Continually identifying and assessing risks, making data driven decisions, using BHP's risk management framework to build a risk aware culture to ensure safe and compliant performance outcomes in an increasingly complex statutory and regulatory landscape.
- Proactive engagement with multiple senior stakeholders, 3rd party providers, regulators & tax authorities.
- Leading & supporting all team members through the implementation of all change impacting Australia payroll, including the implementation of BHP’s Global Payroll Strategy.
- Fostering innovation of ideas and initiatives across payroll to drive continuous improvement to streamline and optimize operational effectiveness.
- Driving team performance to build a high performing culture and to continually improve team and individual capabilities and engagement.
- Applying an understanding of the business context, BHP operating model and ways of working to enhance decision making, productivity and value chain performance.
About You
- Significant experience of leading a large-scale payroll with detailed operational & regulatory experience of Australia payroll.
- Deep experience of identifying operational risk and implementing controls to mitigate such risk within payroll.
- Payroll vendor management experience.
- Experience of leading &/or executing payroll projects (e.g. payroll outsourcing, implementation of local regulatory changes).
- Experience of empowering, coaching, and mentoring colleagues to ensure the team’s objectives can be achieved.
- Strong leadership, influencing, facilitation & stakeholder management skills across all levels of management.
- Sound judgmental skills to identify and resolve challenges and issues that protect and enhance BHP’s values, reputation, and commercial interests.
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
- Fluent in English
- SAP payroll experience (preferred).
- LEAN and/or Six Sigma Accreditation (preferred).
About Our Process
At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.
If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.
At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.
BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.