Payroll & Workforce Data Lead — Hybrid Transformation

St Vincent's Health Australia; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work

Salary packaging benefits

Employee assistance program

Fitness Passport

Job summary

St Vincent’s Health Australia seeks a Project Data Lead to drive a nationwide workforce data and payroll transformation. You will oversee design, migration, and expansion of UKG Pro and Frontier iChris, ensuring data accuracy, reporting reliability, and scalable integrations across divisions.

You will partner with senior stakeholders and external vendors, delivering analytics capabilities and governance across workforce, payroll and finance data, with hybrid work options in Sydney or Brisbane.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in data analytics, information systems, computer science, business or finance.
• Experience leading data and reporting workstreams in HRIS, payroll or workforce projects.
• Strong requirements gathering and translating needs into data definitions and mappings.

Responsibilities

• Lead data governance, migration, reconciliation and validation across systems.
• Act as SME for workforce and payroll data supporting UKG Pro and Frontier iChris.
• Translate business needs into data models, mappings, calculations and reporting specs.
• Define data definitions, transformation logic and reporting standards.
• Document end-to-end data flows across workforce, payroll and finance systems.
• Collaborate with People & Culture, Payroll, Finance, Analytics and Digital teams.
• Work with vendors to deliver data solutions and reporting outcomes.
• Lead workshops, UAT support and business consultation for delivery.
• Identify data quality and process improvements; drive practical solutions.
• Manage dependencies, risks, timelines and escalations across workstreams.
• Develop reusable reporting tools and artefacts for ongoing delivery.
• Support capability uplift and knowledge transfer.

Skills

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Data integration

Data modelling

Analytical mindset

Education

Tertiary qualification in Data Analytics, IS, CS, Business or Finance

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Advanced Excel modelling

Job description

St Vincent’s Health Australia seeks a Project Data Lead to drive a nationwide workforce data and payroll transformation. You will oversee design, migration, and expansion of UKG Pro and Frontier iChris, ensuring data accuracy, reporting reliability, and scalable integrations across divisions.

You will partner with senior stakeholders and external vendors, delivering analytics capabilities and governance across workforce, payroll and finance data, with hybrid work options in Sydney or Brisbane.