Senior Business Analyst — Workday HCM & Payroll

Desda Group; Melbourne; Sur place; AUD 120 000 - 160 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hybrid work

Résumé du poste

Leading Australian super fund seeks a Senior Business Analyst to own Workday HCM and Workday Payroll design for Australia. You will translate HR, payroll and compliance needs into clear requirements and guide the design through go-live in a hybrid Sydney/Melbourne setup.

You bring 8+ years as a BA, strong Workday HCM and Payroll for Australia experience, and the confidence to challenge an integrator while ensuring traceability from requirements to testing and cutover.

Qualifications

• 8+ years as a BA in enterprise HR/payroll
• Full lifecycle Workday HCM implementation experience
• Strong knowledge of Australian payroll and awards interpretation
• Ability to challenge a systems integrator and maintain traceability from requirements to test

Responsabilités

• Map and own hire-to-retire and time-to-pay processes in Workday
• Own requirements, acceptance criteria and traceability across HCM and payroll
• Lead design workshops with the Workday partner, favouring standard design
• Specify Australian payroll requirements: awards, STP Phase 2, super guarantee, Payday Super, payroll tax, long service leave
• Define integration and data migration requirements and support testing, parallel runs, cutover
• Produce future-state processes and support BAU handover

Formation

Bachelor's degree in IT or related

Outils

Workday

Description du poste

Senior Business Analyst — Workday HCM & Payroll

Senior BA to lead Workday HCM & Payroll design at a leading super fund. 12-month contract, Sydney/Melbourne hybrid. Australian payroll exp essential.

02nd October, 2026

Leading Australian super fund · People & Payroll Transformation (Workday) · Sydney or Melbourne, hybrid · 12-month contract with possible extension

The role
Our client, a leading Australian super fund, is replacing its legacy HR and payroll platforms with Workday HCM and Workday Payroll for Australia. You'll be the business's voice in design: turning HR, payroll and compliance needs into clear requirements, challenging the integrator, and keeping the line from requirement to test intact through go-live.

• Map current-state hire-to-retire and time-to-pay processes and build the pay rules inventory.
• Own requirements, acceptance criteria and traceability across HCM and payroll scope.
• Lead design workshops with the Workday partner, favouring standard design over customisation.
• Specify Australian payroll requirements: awards and the enterprise agreement, STP Phase 2, super guarantee and Payday Super, payroll tax and long service leave.
• Define integration and data migration requirements, then support testing, parallel runs and cutover.
• Produce future-state processes and support change, training and BAU handover.

02nd October, 2026

Leading Australian super fund · People & Payroll Transformation (Workday) · Sydney or Melbourne, hybrid · 12-month contract with possible extension

The role
Our client, a leading Australian super fund, is replacing its legacy HR and payroll platforms with Workday HCM and Workday Payroll for Australia. You'll be the business's voice in design: turning HR, payroll and compliance needs into clear requirements, challenging the integrator, and keeping the line from requirement to test intact through go-live.

• Map current-state hire-to-retire and time-to-pay processes and build the pay rules inventory.
• Own requirements, acceptance criteria and traceability across HCM and payroll scope.
• Lead design workshops with the Workday partner, favouring standard design over customisation.
• Specify Australian payroll requirements: awards and the enterprise agreement, STP Phase 2, super guarantee and Payday Super, payroll tax and long service leave.
• Define integration and data migration requirements, then support testing, parallel runs and cutover.
• Produce future-state processes and support change, training and BAU handover.

What you'll bring

• 8+ years as a BA, including senior roles on enterprise HR and payroll implementations.
• At least one full-lifecycle Workday HCM implementation; Workday Payroll for Australia strongly preferred.
• Deep knowledge of Australian payroll and award interpretation.
• Hands-on experience with parallel runs, data migration reconciliation and UAT.
• The confidence to challenge a systems integrator, and the clarity to brief a steering committee.
• Superannuation or APRA-regulated experience and Workday certification are a plus.

What success looks like Requirements are baselined and signed off early, every requirement traces to a passed test, parallel runs reconcile, and the first live pay lands with no material errors.