Enterprise Agreement Implementation Lead

Job Description

As the Enterprise Agreements Implementation Lead, you are the voice of payroll in the room where EA clauses are being drafted, and the translator of those clauses into something that can actually be configured, tested and paid correctly. You will work across Industrial Relations, Workforce Planning, HR and Systems teams, bringing a practical operational lens to proposed terms before they are locked in — and giving those teams early, credible visibility of what each clause will cost in system change, testing effort and payroll workload. 

It is a role built on influence rather than authority. Your value comes from being the person other teams seek out before they commit to a position, because your advice is timely, well-reasoned and grounded in how pay is really processed. 

What you'll be doing 

Shaping outcomes through stakeholder engagement 

• Build and sustain trusted working relationships across Industrial Relations, Workforce Planning, HR Business Partners, Systems and the broader Payroll team 

• Represent payroll capability and constraints in EA negotiation and implementation forums, ensuring operational reality informs industrial strategy 

• Translate technical payroll and system constraints into language that lands with non-payroll audiences, and industrial language into clear requirements for configuration and testing 

Influencing the agreement before it's signed 

• Review proposed EA clauses for operational feasibility, flagging drafting that is ambiguous, unworkable or disproportionately expensive to administer 

• Provide structured, evidence-based feedback into the negotiation process — surfacing the downstream implications of clause design early, while there is still room to change it 

• Offer alternative drafting approaches that achieve the intent of a clause while remaining configurable and auditable 

Driving operational readiness 

• Partner with Systems teams to scope, plan and sequence the configuration changes required to support new or varied agreement terms 

• Assess interpretation questions and provide authoritative advice to teams applying the agreement in practice 

• Anticipate workload and timing pressures arising from new provisions, and communicate them early enough for other teams to plan around 

What you'll bring 

• Significant experience in a complex, high-volume payroll environment, ideally in a large or multi-site organisation 

• Demonstrated experience interpreting industrial instruments — enterprise agreements, awards and the interaction between them — and applying them within a payroll system 

• A track record of influencing without direct authority: credibility with senior stakeholders, comfort holding a position under pressure, and the judgement to know when to escalate and when to find a path through 

• Strong understanding of payroll system configuration, testing methodology and the discipline required to move a change safely from clause to pay run 

• Exposure to payroll governance frameworks and controls 

• Project delivery experience, with the ability to work to defined timeframes across multiple concurrent workstreams 

• Background in healthcare, aged care, retail or another award-dependent, rostered industry would be well regarded 

Why this role 

This is a genuinely cross-functional role with visibility across the industrial, operational and systems sides of the organisation. If you understand that the quality of an enterprise agreement is ultimately judged by whether people are paid correctly under it — and you want to be in the conversation early rather than inheriting the consequences — this will suit you. 

Qualifications

Additional Information

Must provide or complete a National Police Check conducted within the previous 12 months.

Apply: 

• All applications must be lodged online.
• Applications close: 10th November 2026 
• Reference number: JR116070

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