Strategic Workforce Data Lead – UKG Pro & iChris (Hybrid)

St Vincent's Private Hospital Brisbane; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging benefits

Hybrid working

Professional development

Fitness Passport

Employee Assistance Program

Wellbeing support

Inclusive culture

Job summary

St Vincent's Health Australia is seeking a Project Data Lead to join the national People Systems, Data & Performance team on a full-time maximum-term contract. You will lead the design, migration, and expansion of UKG Pro and Frontier iChris for workforce, payroll and reporting data.

Based in Sydney or Brisbane with flexible hybrid working, you will partner with People & Culture, Payroll and Finance to ensure data integrity and scalable analytics across 30,000+ employees.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Data Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Finance or related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience leading data and reporting workstreams within large HRIS, Workforce Management and Payroll implementation programs.
• Strong experience gathering requirements and translating business needs into data definitions, mappings, integrations and reporting solutions.
• Deep understanding of data migration, reconciliation, transformation logic, testing methodologies and data quality management.
• Practical experience with analytics and reporting tools including Power BI, SQL and advanced Excel modelling.
• Experience designing and supporting data pipelines, integrations and ETL/ELT processes.
• Strong understanding of workforce, payroll and finance data, including cost centres, costing structures and reconciliation requirements.
• Proven ability to work effectively with internal stakeholders, senior leaders, project teams and external vendors.
• Exceptional documentation skills, including mapping specifications, decision logs, governance artefacts and issue registers.
• Strong project delivery capability with experience managing dependencies, competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• High-level communication, facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead data governance, migration, reconciliation and validation activities across workforce, payroll and finance systems.
• Act as the subject matter expert for workforce and payroll data, supporting the expansion of the UKG Pro and Frontier iChris environment.
• Translate business requirements into data models, mappings, calculations, reporting specifications and integration requirements.
• Define and maintain data definitions, transformation logic, reference codes and reporting standards to ensure consistency across the organisation.
• Analyse and document end-to-end data flows between workforce management, payroll, finance and enterprise systems.
• Partner with People & Culture, Payroll, Finance, Data & Analytics and Digital & Technology teams to deliver reporting and analytics capabilities.
• Collaborate with external vendors including UKG, Frontier and implementation partners to deliver data solutions, integrations and reporting outcomes.
• Lead stakeholder workshops, UAT support and business consultation activities to ensure successful adoption and delivery.
• Identify data quality, governance and process improvement opportunities and drive practical solutions.
• Manage project dependencies, risks, timelines and escalations across multiple workstreams.
• Develop reusable reporting tools, templates and artefacts to support efficient project delivery and ongoing operational support.
• Support capability uplift and knowledge transfer across internal teams.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Documentation

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Finance or related discipline

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Excel modelling

Job description

St Vincent's Health Australia is seeking a Project Data Lead to join the national People Systems, Data & Performance team on a full-time maximum-term contract. You will lead the design, migration, and expansion of UKG Pro and Frontier iChris for workforce, payroll and reporting data.

Based in Sydney or Brisbane with flexible hybrid working, you will partner with People & Culture, Payroll and Finance to ensure data integrity and scalable analytics across 30,000+ employees.