Payroll Data & Process Lead

Foodstuffs, Inc.

Payroll Data & Process Lead managing payroll data integrity at Foodstuffs. Playing a critical role in ensuring payroll outcomes are accurate and aligned with business needs.

Posted 5/8/2026contractMangere • 🇳🇿 New ZealandSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Owning the design and integrity of payroll data structures, pay elements, and costing frameworks
Defining and maintaining payroll outputs that are accurate, explainable, and enterprise‑ready
Establishing reconciliation logic and controls across pre‑payroll, pay run, and post‑payroll stages
Leading leave interpretation and design (including Holidays Act requirements, balances, accruals, and liabilities)
Ensuring payroll outputs align with Finance, GL, liabilities, audit, and statutory reporting needs
Supporting testing, parallel runs, cutover, and post‑go‑live stabilisation
Embedding strong controls, auditability, and risk mitigation frameworks across payroll processes
Partnering cross‑functionally with Payroll, Finance, People & Capability, and programme teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant experience in payroll data, process design, or payroll systems implementation in complex environments
Strong working knowledge of NZ payroll legislation, including the Holidays Act and leave liabilities
Proven experience designing payroll outputs, reconciliations, and finance integrations
The ability to interpret policy, employment agreements, and legislation and translate them into payroll‑safe design
Strong analytical capability, with the ability to trace issues, identify root causes, and clearly communicate insights
Experience supporting testing cycles, parallel runs, and payroll transformation programmes
A structured, detail‑driven, and risk‑aware mindset with a strong focus on payroll accuracy and compliance
Excellent stakeholder skills and the confidence to challenge, influence, and guide decision‑making

Benefits

Comp & perks

Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including EV plugs
Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday
Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).

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Hard Skills & Tools

payroll data structurespay elementscosting frameworkspayroll outputsreconciliation logicpayroll systems implementationfinance integrationspayroll transformation programmesdata analysisrisk mitigation frameworks

Soft Skills

analytical capabilitystakeholder managementcommunicationdetail-orientedrisk awarenessinfluencingguiding decision-makingproblem-solvingpolicy interpretationcross-functional collaboration