Senior Payroll Reporting & Analytics Lead

Marketplace; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Health New Zealand is seeking four Payroll Reporting Delivery Leads to provide enterprise leadership for payroll reporting, workforce analytics, and data governance across our organisation. You will lead a specialist reporting team in any of four regions to ensure accurate, secure payroll insights for about 40,000 active employees and 100,000 historical records.

You will partner with Payroll, Finance, HR, Audit, and Digital Services to deliver trusted workforce intelligence and reporting

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years' experience in reporting, analytics, workforce intelligence, or related discipline in large organisations.
• Tertiary qualification in Business, Data Analytics, Information Management, Finance, HR, or related field.
• Experience leading enterprise reporting, workforce analytics, or payroll reporting functions.
• Proven capability leading specialist or technical teams and influencing senior stakeholders through data-driven insights.
• Experience developing reporting frameworks, governance models, assurance systems, and reporting transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of risk, compliance, audit, and workforce data governance requirements.
• Experience in large public sector or health environments and leading reporting modernisation or enterprise BI initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise leadership for payroll reporting, workforce analytics, and data governance across Health New Zealand.
• Oversee a specialist reporting team across four regions (Northern, Central, Midland, South).
• Support reporting governance, assurance, and maturity across payroll systems and structures.
• Advise senior leaders across Payroll, Finance, HR, Audit, Digital Services on standards and governance.

Skills

Workforce analytics

Payroll reporting

Enterprise reporting

Governance

Stakeholder engagement

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Data Analytics, Information Management, Finance, HR or related field

Job description

Health New Zealand is seeking four Payroll Reporting Delivery Leads to provide enterprise leadership for payroll reporting, workforce analytics, and data governance across our organisation. You will lead a specialist reporting team in any of four regions to ensure accurate, secure payroll insights for about 40,000 active employees and 100,000 historical records.

You will partner with Payroll, Finance, HR, Audit, and Digital Services to deliver trusted workforce intelligence and reporting