Finance Manager - Payroll & Reporting

Serco is a place where you can grow

Join a team of 10,000+ professionals across Asia Pacific (ASPAC) and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

• Flexible work location – Sydney or other locations considered (Sydney preferred, Adelaide also fine)
• Hybrid working model - ideally 3 days per week in office, rest WFH
• Trusted leadership and supportive team culture
• Long-term career pathways across government-backed contracts
• Access to employee-led inclusion networks
• Opportunities to make real impact in the public sector
• Strong focus on wellbeing and continuous learning

Make an impact at Serco

We’re looking for a proactive and driven Finance Manager – Payroll & Reporting to join our ASPAC Finance team. In this key role, you’ll take ownership of payroll finance reporting for around 10,000 employees using SAP HCM, supporting our Australian subsidiaries. You’ll collaborate across the business, lead payroll compliance reporting, and champion continuous improvement in our finance operations.

As a Finance Manager – Payroll & Reporting in the ASPAC Finance team, you’ll make a positive impact by:

• Completing SAP finance reporting for Australian payroll activities
• Completing payroll tax and employee entitlement reporting for each State and Territory
• Managing month-end and year-end close processes
• Liaising with stakeholders to resolve reporting queries and build customised reports
• Recommending and reviewing system improvements for better reporting outcomes
• Supporting broader finance activities including leasing under IFRS16 and ad hoc project work

Serco is a place for you

To be successful in this role you’ll have:

• Deep understanding of payroll finance reporting, including SAP HCM and SAP Finance (Essential)
• Strong grasp of Australian payroll legislation and employee entitlements (Essential)
• Advanced Excel modelling skills (Essential)
• CPA or CA qualification (desirable)
• Excellent communication skills to partner with internal finance teams and stakeholders
• Proven experience in high-volume, complex payroll environments
• Ability to drive improvements, influence change and solve problems proactively

In joining us, you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals. Here, you will appreciate a flexible approach to work-life that comes with working at a company with long-term government-backed contracts.

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?

At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.

We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in Health, Defence, Maritime, Justice, and Community Services.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQI+, veterans and people with disability.

By joining Serco you’ll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Impact a better future at Serco.