Payroll Automation Analyst

Head Office - Melbourne; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ramsay Health Care seeks an experienced Payroll Automation Lead to reshape national payroll operations. You will identify manual processes, design smarter automated solutions and standardise how payroll is managed across state and corporate offices.

You will lead automation initiatives from discovery to benefits realisation, work with Payroll, Technology, Finance, and People & Culture teams, and drive process improvements with a focus on accuracy and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Business Analyst, Payroll Systems Analyst or similar role within a complex, multi-site organisation.
• Strong end-to-end knowledge of Australian payroll.
• Experience working with Awards and Enterprise Agreements, terminations, leave, long service leave, superannuation and STP Phase 2.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive change across geographically dispersed teams without direct reporting authority.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis capability, with experience working with payroll, workforce or operational datasets.
• Experience designing controls, governance processes and assurance mechanisms within payroll or other regulated environments.
• Hands-on experience with a major payroll platform; Chris21 experience is highly desirable.
• Experience with UKG, Workday or comparable payroll platforms will also be considered.
• A proven track record of process mapping, standardisation and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and delivering automation opportunities.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to prioritise competing opportunities based on value, risk and feasibility.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to standardise, simplify and automate payroll processes across a national operating model.
• Lead automation initiatives from discovery and business case through to implementation and benefits realisation.
• Map current payroll processes and design standardised ways of working across offices.
• Improve use and configuration of Chris21 and the wider payroll technology landscape.
• Write high-quality functional and technical requirements, business cases and specifications.
• Lead system testing, including regression, parallel and user acceptance testing.
• Analyse payroll and workforce data to identify trends, inefficiencies, risks and opportunities.
• Measure and report the benefits delivered through automation and process improvement.

Skills

Payroll systems

Business analysis

Advanced Excel

Data analysis

Automation opportunities

Stakeholder management

Process mapping

Commercial judgement

Regulated environments

UKG

Workday

Tools

Chris21

UKG

Workday

Job description

Head Office - Melbourne – St Leonards Park NSW

Ramsay Health Care is looking for an experiencedPayroll Automation Leadto help reshape the way payroll operates across our national business.

This is a hands-on opportunity to make a tangible impact — identifying manual processes, designing smarter solutions, improving the use of payroll technology and creating consistent national processes that improve efficiency, accuracy and the employee experience.

If you’re a payroll systems or business analysis professional who enjoys solving complex problems and turning manual processes into streamlined, automated solutions, this role is for you.

About the role

Ramsay’s payroll function operates across multiple state and corporate offices, each with established ways of working. Your role will be to identify opportunities to standardise, simplify and automate these processes, creating a more consistent and efficient national payroll operating model.

You’ll work acrossPayroll, Technology, Finance, People & Culture and our payroll platform teams, taking ideas from analysis and requirements through to implementation, testing and benefits realisation.

Key areas of focus will include:

• Identifying and eliminating manual payroll processes through automation
• Mapping current payroll processes across our national payroll offices and designing standardised ways of working
• Leading automation initiatives from discovery and business case through to implementation and benefit realisation
• Improving the use and configuration ofChris21and the wider payroll technology landscape
• Identifying opportunities to introduce system-based preventative controls, validation rules, warnings and exception reporting
• Writing high-quality functional and technical requirements, business cases and specifications
• Leading system testing, including regression, parallel and user acceptance testing
• Analysing payroll and workforce data to identify trends, inefficiencies, risks and opportunities
• Measuring and reporting the benefits delivered through automation and process improvement

A key priority will be tackling manual processes that create unnecessary effort and risk, includingmanual timesheet handling, reconciliation and reporting, replacing detective manual checking with smarter, system-enabled controls wherever possible.

About you

You’re a commercially minded payroll systems or business analysis professional who combines strong analytical capability with practical payroll knowledge.

You will ideally have:

• Significant experience as a Business Analyst, Payroll Systems Analyst or similar role within a complex, multi-site organisation
• Strong end-to-end knowledge of Australian payroll
• Experience working with Awards and Enterprise Agreements, terminations, leave, long service leave, superannuation and STP Phase 2
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive change across geographically dispersed teams without direct reporting authority.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis capability, with experience working with payroll, workforce or operational datasets.
• Experience designing controls, governance processes and assurance mechanisms within payroll or other regulated environments.
• Experience in healthcare or another large, award-covered, 24/7 workforce environment will be highly regarded.
• Hands-on experience with a major payroll platform;Chris21 experience is highly desirable
• Experience with UKG, Workday or comparable payroll platforms will also be considered
• A proven track record of process mapping, standardisation and continuous improvement
• Demonstrated experience identifying and delivering automation opportunities
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to prioritise competing opportunities based on value, risk and feasibility

Why join Ramsay?

This is an exciting time to join Ramsay’s Payroll function as we embark on a significant program of optimisation and transformation.

You’ll have the opportunity to influence how payroll operates nationally, working on initiatives that will deliver measurable improvements inefficiency, accuracy, automation and employee experience.

You’ll work alongside experienced Payroll, Technology and People professionals and have the autonomy to take improvement opportunities from analysis through to delivery.

Most importantly, your work will have a real and measurable impact — reducing manual effort, strengthening controls and helping create a modern, scalable payroll function.