Employment Hero Payroll & HRIS Transformation Consultant - Contract

Work Initiatives; Blacktown; On-site; AUD 166,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Work Initiatives is seeking an experienced Employment Hero specialist to complete an ongoing implementation, optimise payroll and HR processes, and establish scalable workflows to support growth. The role focuses on HRIS interaction and governance across multi-entity payroll environments, not day-to-day payroll transactions.

You will diagnose configuration, automate EBA and award rules, streamline onboarding/offboarding, and lift system adoption while ensuring security and appropriate access

Qualifications

• Deep Employment Hero expertise, including implementation and remediation or optimisation projects.
• Experience in complex, multi-entity payroll environments.
• EBA interpretation and configuration.
• HRIS configuration and process improvement capability.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose whether issues come from system configuration, process design, user behaviour, training or approval controls.
• Configure and automate EBA and award rules, and optimise pay runs across all entities.
• Streamline and document onboarding and offboarding, and support a newly appointed HR / Office Coordinator to own them.
• Review access profiles, permissions, approval pathways and segregation of duties.
• Build workflow automation, self-service and manager approvals that people will use.
• Lift stakeholder capability and system adoption.
• Leave behind a scalable structure that supports continued acquisition-driven growth.

Skills

Employment Hero

Multi-entity payroll

EBA configuration

HRIS configuration

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Employment Hero

Job description

Our client is a rapidly growing construction and services organisation expanding through both organic growth and acquisition.

They are seeking an experienced Employment Hero specialist to review a partially completed implementation, optimise payroll and HR processes, strengthen governance, and establish scalable workflows that support future growth.

The Organisation has a Payroll Officer and an Outsourced Payroll provider, so this role is not about transacting payroll it is the HRIS interaction and the broader HRIS implementation.

The Challenge

• Several payroll runs every week across four employing entities
• Multiple EBAs each with its own rules and allowances that need to be configured and automated
• Payroll data issues arising before it reaches the outsourced payroll provider, including inconsistent site processes, timesheet accuracy and manual amendments
• Onboarding and offboarding gaps, including employees remaining active or on payroll after departure
• Governance and security concerns, including user permissions and visibility of salary information

What You'll Do

• Diagnose whether issues come from system configuration, process design, user behaviour, training or approval controls
• Configure and automate EBA and award rules, and optimise pay runs across all entities
• Streamline and document onboarding and offboarding, and support a newly appointed HR / Office Coordinator to own them
• Review access profiles, permissions, approval pathways and segregation of duties
• Build workflow automation, self-service and manager approvals that people will use
• Lift stakeholder capability and system adoption
• Leave behind a scalable structure that supports continued acquisition-driven growth

This is a hands-on and strategic assignment, not system administration.

What Success Looks Like

• Stable, repeatable payroll with significantly less manual intervention
• Accurate EBA rule configuration and faster payroll turnaround
• Streamlined onboarding and robust offboarding
• Stronger access controls, clear approval paths and reduced risk

About You

Essential

• Deep Employment Hero expertise, including implementation and remediation or optimisation projects
• Experience in complex, multi-entity payroll environments
• EBA interpretation and configuration
• HRIS configuration and process improvement capability
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills

Highly desirable

• Construction, manufacturing or other blue-collar workforce experience
• Acquisition integration experience
• Payroll transformation projects
• Governance and compliance expertise

Why This Role

• Meaningful work with a visible before and after
• A business that has already invested in the technology and is committed to getting it right
• A growing, acquisitive organisation where your work will have lasting impact

This role is an immediate start. Initial Contract until Feb 27 (possibility to extend). $ excellent daily rate $

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