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About the Role
Our Payroll Consulting team is an exciting, fast-paced, ever-changing and growing environment. As employers discovered the difficulties in maintaining compliance with their Industry Award or Enterprise Agreement, and Underpayments became apparent, the need for this service grew. Criminalisation has brought even higher focus to the importance of this area. We assist clients with understanding whether they are at risk of underpaying their employees in line with the relevant Industry Award or Enterprise Agreement, and calculate those underpayments through historical reconciliations.
Key Responsibilities
Work across all aspects of payroll compliance projects, focused on Award & EBA employee underpayment reviews and reconciliation, including:
- Address matters relating to payroll compliance, industry awards, data cleansing, and reconciliation modelling
- Review of reconciliation tool design, build and implementation (using excel and other platforms)
- Create, maintain and monitor project plans, schedules and tasks (in alignment to frameworks)
- Organise and attend stakeholder/client meeting, manage client relationships
- Key Client Contact – build and seek new relationships with target clients and advisors
- Ownership of Projects and tasks to completion
- Implementation of Continuous Improvement and Growth initiatives
- Develop junior staff
- Support clients with payroll transformation initiatives, including process redesign and control implementation.
- Advise on payroll governance framework and risk mitigation strategies
Skills Required
- Highly proficient in Excel, Alteryx, Power BI or similar platform
- Project management or coordination experience — especially in multi-stakeholder or cross-border environments. Committed to the successful delivery of projects and outcomes
- Proactive attitude / Uses Initiative
- Analytical/forensic thinker
- Problem Solving and decision-making skills
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, fostering trust and collaboration with both clients and internal teams
- Ability to multi-task
- Detail-oriented mindset
- Experience with payroll compliance / pay remediation projects
- Understanding of payroll controls and transformation methodologies
- Good knowledge and understanding of pay compliance landscape
- Awareness of Fair Work legislative updates and regulatory reforms
- We are looking for an individual that is interested in learning and developing, willing to give and receive feedback and bring a positive, self-motivated approach to the role.
Qualifications and Experience required
- Relevant tertiary degree/qualification
- Demonstrated strategic leadership and contribution to service development.
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