One purpose, one practice
We are public purpose specialists who support governments, agencies and other organisations to deliver services to Australians, helping to build more resilient, equitable, secure and prosperous communities. One purpose, one practice. We are guided by our values of Stronger Together, Amplify Impact, Build Trusted Relationships, Value Every Person, Think Beyond Limits, and Defined by Ethics.
Job DescriptionAre you a seasoned HR Operations professional with a passion for driving excellence? Do you thrive on optimising systems, ensuring compliance, and delivering an exceptional employee experience?
Scyne, a leading Australian public-purpose consultancy, is seeking a dedicated HR Operations Manager to join our growing team.
This is a unique opportunity to contribute to significant public sector outcomes, ensuring our People & Culture foundations are robust, ethical, and highly effective.
Reporting to the Head of People Partnering & Operations, the HR Operations Manager will be instrumental in leading the operational backbone of our P&C function. You will champion best practice across all HR services, systems, and processes, ensuring seamless support for our people from onboarding through to offboarding. This hands-on role combines strategic oversight with operational delivery, requiring a meticulous approach to data, compliance, and process efficiency.
What You'll Do:
You will oversee and drive the efficiency and effectiveness of our HR operations, focusing on several critical areas:
- Lead HR Service Delivery: Oversee all end-to-end HR operational processes across the employee lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and a positive employee experience.
- Optimise Systems & Data: Act as the HRIS champion, driving data integrity, system enhancements, and leveraging technology to deliver insightful reporting and support workforce planning.
- Ensure Compliance: Uphold the highest standards of Australian employment law compliance, managing policies, risk, and secure data practices, and supporting audit and governance activities.
- Support Payroll Integration: Partner closely with Payroll to ensure accurate and timely processing of people data and seamless data flow for payroll-related changes.
- Enhance Employee Experience: Drive initiatives to modernise HR service delivery, fostering self-service, digital solutions, and continuously improving processes.
- Collaborate & Influence: Act as the People Business Partner for Corporate Functions, providing practical advice, supporting managers, and building strong internal and external stakeholder relationships.
- Champion DEI Initiatives: Take ownership of agreed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion actions, supporting their implementation and embedding inclusive practices within HR processes.
- Drive Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline processes, automate activity, and support the development of HR operational capability through documentation and knowledge sharing.
What You'll Bring
- Tertiary qualification in Human Resources, Business, or a related discipline (preferred).
- Demonstrated experience in HR operations, shared services or people operations roles within a complex organisation.
- Strong hands‑on experience managing HR systems, data and transactional HR processes.
- Sound working knowledge of Australian employment legislation and contemporary HR practices.
- Exposure to HR business partnering or advisory work, with interest in further developing partnering capability.
- Confidence managing competing priorities in a high‑volume, service‑oriented environment.
- Strong stakeholder management, written and verbal communication skills.
- High attention to detail, discretion and sound judgement when handling sensitive information.
A little about us?
At Scyne, we are driven by our purpose. We offer a collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment where your expertise directly contributes to shaping and delivering impactful outcomes for the Australian community. You will have the opportunity to work with passionate professionals, tackle complex challenges, and grow your career in a values-driven organisation.
Benefits
- Market leading Parental Leave: Allows either carer to take 26 weeks of leave, flexibly, until a child is two years of age. A six-month minimum service requirement for new starters applies. We also make full superannuation contributions for up to 12 months (including unpaid parental leave).
- Flexible working: Our people have the autonomy to choose where and when they work so they can integrate their professional and personal lives, finding the right balance that fuels their growth, wellbeing, engagement and productivity. If it works for them, their teams, and their clients, it works for us.
- Additional leave: Includes Birthday leave, First Nations Cultural Leave, Floating Public Holidays, Leave+ (purchased leave up to 12 weeks), Study Leave, Volunteering Leave, and more!
- Smart device reimbursement: Working flexibly means accessing the information you need on the go. That’s why we help pay for your smartphone or tablet, claiming up to $60 a month towards your bill.
- Wellness and Lifestyle benefits: We’ll give you $295 a year to spend on items or activities that support your wellness, and up to $205 a year to support your balanced lifestyle.
- Sonder: A digital care platform that empowers people to actively take control of their wellbeing to live well and perform at their best, free to Scyne Employees and their immediate family members.
Interested in working together or want to find out more?
If you're collaborative in nature, curious and keen to work in a high-performing team to drive meaningful change for clients, then you should apply today.
We Value Every Person and Every Voice:
We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and promoting a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.
We are passionate about improving outcomes with First Peoples, working in collaboration with government and community sectors towards programs which focus on First Nations clients, consumers and communities. We recognise the knowledge, insights and capabilities of First Peoples. Their strength, resilience and cultural competence are highly valued.
We know that an inclusive culture, and collective intelligence improves the decision-making processes and is critical to delivering exceptional outcomes for our clients and team. We encourage applications from those in marginalised and/or historically underrepresented communities within our workforce. Additionally, if you require any adjustments to the process, please let us know
Recruitment and Assessment Process:
Scyne’s approach to recruitment and selection is underpinned by key principles and expectations, ensuring we recruit and onboard a skilled and diverse workforce that is representative of the communities and organisations we serve. We ensure selection to roles is fair, with equal access provided, and appointments factor in but not limited to relative ability to fulfil the role, prior performance, potential and alignment with our values – taking unique experiences, perspectives, and contributions into consideration.
We carry out background checks on our people to ensure we have made a sound hiring decision and to protect the organisation and our clients from potential risk. If required, confirmation of a valid Commonwealth security clearance or the ability to obtain a Commonwealth security clearance.
