Woolworths

We are Woolworths Group: 

We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts, and unique perspectives across Australia and New Zealand. Connected by a shared Purpose - 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow'. That Purpose fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments, and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week.

If you're excited to turn today's blue-sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you'll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive, and empowering workplace. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work, and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

What you’ll do:

Assist with the governance, design and configuration of new SAP Payroll solutions.  Ensure functional solutions are rooted in a deep understanding of payroll legislation, business strategy, and SAP best practices transforming complex business needs into streamlined, compliant, and scalable system processes.

Consulting with the People Team and Payroll business owners to provide expert guidance on how SAP features can solve specific business pain points. Construct requirements into holistic functional designs that consider upstream and downstream impacts.Own  complex functional logic ensuring fair work and legislative compliance. 

• Architect: Design scalable SAP Payroll solutions that bridge complex legislation and business strategy.

• Standardize: Enforce SAP best practices to minimize custom code and technical debt.

• Consult: Resolve business pain points by translating needs into high-level SAP functionality.

• Document: Author airtight functional specs and peer-review partner (TCS) solutions.

• Compliance: Own the complex functional logic ensuring Fair Work and legal compliance.

• Assess: Lead impact reviews for Country Legal Changes (CLCs) Support Packages, and tools like Cloud ALM, Data Sync Manager (DSM)

• Validate: Build, unit test, and manage production releases with L2/L3 hypercare.

• Enable: Drive change management, training, and knowledge transfers for support teams.

• Defend: Act as the technical SME for all internal and external system audits.

What you’ll bring:

You are an experienced SAP payroll functional consultant  with knowledge of AU and NZ payroll legislation and employment standards who can  navigate and configure SAP modules without relying solely on technical manuals. You  can advise business stakeholders when standard configuration and customisation are appropriate

• Experience: 7+ years deep-dive expertise in SAP HR/Payroll.

• Tech Stack: Proficient in SAP Cloud Platform and end-to-end development methodologies.

• Delivery: Proven track record across the full SAP Payroll project lifecycle.

• Consulting: Strategic mindset—distinguishing stakeholder "wants" from actual business "needs."

• Precision: Expert at drafting crystal-clear, concise functional specifications.

• Analysis: Sharp analytical focus on payroll business processes and people-centric culture.

What You’ll Experience:

• We embrace diversity of thought and love to take on challenges with a pragmatic and innovative approach. Our culture thrives on mutual respect, care, curiosity, openness, and a proactive attitude. We continually seek ways to pair, collaborate, support, and learn from each other as a team!

• Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work

• A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.

• A progressive and flexible ‘work from anywhere' policy that gives you the opportunity to harmonise work, life and your wellbeing.

• A range of programs to help you prioritise and manage your wellbeing, including

• 24/7 access to the Sonder app.

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group 

As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. 

Woolworths Group is an inclusive, team-first company and we value all skills and experiences. If you meet some, but not all of the requirements, we encourage you to submit your application.