Payroll Team Leader

Join the Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) as a Payroll Team Leader and lead our payroll team in delivering accurate and timely payroll services for New Zealand employees.

LIC is a farmer‑owned co‑operative that has supported herd improvement in New Zealand’s dairy sector for over 115 years. We focus on superior genetics, reliable testing and diagnostics, integrated on‑farm software, and great customer service—all designed to help farmers make smarter decisions every day.

As a proud generational co‑operative, we are committed to our people. Whether on farm, in the lab, or behind the scenes, every team member plays a part in helping New Zealand farmers succeed.

About the Role :

We are seeking an experienced payroll professional to manage our payroll team, ensuring compliance and excellence in every pay cycle. This hands‑on leadership position will also play a key role in upcoming project work.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high‑performing payroll team.
• Allocate and coordinate team workload to meet service delivery targets.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability.
• Oversee end‑to‑end payroll processing for NZ‑based employees, ensuring accuracy and timeliness, including reconciliation of balance sheet accounts, payments and reporting to IRD.
• Act as the escalation point for complex payroll queries and discrepancies.
• Ensure payroll data integrity, confidentiality and compliance with internal policies.
• Maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of NZ employment legislation (Holidays Act, PAYE, KiwiSaver, etc.) and ensure payroll practices are compliant with current laws, agreements and audit standards.
• Support internal and external audits, ensuring documentation and processes meet regulatory requirements.
• Conduct risk analysis and develop mitigation strategies to protect data integrity and compliance.
• Lead and contribute to payroll‑related projects, such as system upgrades, process improvements and legislative change implementations.
• Collaborate with People & Performance, Finance and IT teams to deliver integrated solutions and maintain project documentation, timelines and stakeholder communications.

About You :

In Return :

In addition to a competitive salary, you will receive extra leave days, flexible working options, discounted health, life, income and disability insurance, access to our employee shares scheme, wellbeing discounts, free onsite parking, an employee assistance programme, and more.

If you’re after a rewarding career that offers development, learning and loads of exceptional experiences, look no further—at LIC we are leading the way and would love to welcome you to the team.

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