Payroll Analyst

Sharp and Carter; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 62,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive hourly rate

12-month contract opportunity

Hybrid working arrangement

Exposure to transformation program

Work with senior payroll/HR teams

Collaborative team environment

Job summary

Sharp and Carter is seeking an experienced Payroll Analyst to join a large national transformation program, focusing on data, systems and compliance beyond routine payroll processing. This role suits a professional who enjoys solving complex payroll challenges and partnering across projects to deliver accurate outcomes.

You will extract and validate data, model scenarios, support system migrations, and work with payroll, HR and project teams in a hybrid Sydney setup.

Qualifications

• Strong end-to-end payroll knowledge.
• Experience interpreting awards and payroll rules.
• Solid understanding of payroll compliance and regulation.
• Advanced Excel skills with strong data analysis capability.
• Experience working with large and complex payroll datasets.
• Strong reconciliation and problem-solving abilities.
• Exposure to payroll projects, transformations or system implementations.
• Ability to engage with diverse stakeholders.
• High attention to detail and data accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Extract, cleanse, transform and validate payroll data.
• Analyse and reconcile complex payroll datasets.
• Prepare payroll data for system migration and uploads.
• Conduct payroll audits, validation and data integrity checks.
• Interpret awards and assess payroll-related impacts.
• Complete redundancy and employee entitlement calculations.
• Support payroll remediation and compliance initiatives.
• Perform scenario modelling and workforce impact analysis.
• Identify payroll risks, anomalies and improvement opportunities.
• Partner with payroll, HR, finance and project teams throughout transformation activities.

Skills

End-to-end payroll knowledge

Award interpretation

Payroll compliance & legislation

Advanced Excel

Data analysis

Large/complex datasets

Reconcilation & problem-solving

Stakeholder engagement

Attention to detail

Job description

Join a Business Undergoing Significant Transformation

An exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced Payroll Analyst to join a large and complex national organisation undergoing a major payroll integration and transformation program.

This is an ideal opportunity for a payroll professional who enjoys working beyond traditional payroll processing and wants to leverage their expertise across systems, data analysis, compliance, workforce transitions and business change initiatives.

This role will suit someone who enjoys solving complex payroll challenges, analysing large datasets and partnering with project stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Extract, cleanse, transform and validate payroll data
• Analyse and reconcile complex payroll datasets
• Prepare payroll data for system migration and upload activities
• Conduct payroll audits, validation and data integrity checks
• Interpret awards and assess payroll-related impacts
• Complete redundancy and employee entitlement calculations
• Support payroll remediation and compliance initiatives
• Perform scenario modelling and workforce impact analysis
• Identify payroll risks, anomalies and improvement opportunities
• Partner with payroll, HR, finance and project teams throughout transformation activities

About You

• Strong end-to-end payroll knowledge
• Practical award interpretation experience
• Excellent understanding of payroll compliance and legislation
• Advanced Excel skills and strong analytical capability
• Experience working with large and complex payroll datasets
• Strong reconciliation and problem-solving skills
• Exposure to payroll projects, transformations, integrations or system implementations
• Confidence engaging with a wide range of business stakeholders
• High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy

What's On Offer

• Competitive hourly rate
• 12-month contract opportunity
• Hybrid working arrangement
• Exposure to a high-profile transformation program
• Opportunity to work with senior project, payroll and HR stakeholders
• Collaborative and supportive team environment

If you're an experienced payroll professional looking to step into a role focused on data, systems, analysis and transformation rather than BAU payroll processing, we would love to hear from you.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a significant business change program while further developing your project and payroll expertise.