Join a Business Undergoing Significant Transformation

An exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced Payroll Analyst to join a large and complex national organisation undergoing a major payroll integration and transformation program.

This is an ideal opportunity for a payroll professional who enjoys working beyond traditional payroll processing and wants to leverage their expertise across systems, data analysis, compliance, workforce transitions and business change initiatives.

This role will suit someone who enjoys solving complex payroll challenges, analysing large datasets and partnering with project stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

- Extract, cleanse, transform and validate payroll data
- Analyse and reconcile complex payroll datasets
- Prepare payroll data for system migration and upload activities
- Conduct payroll audits, validation and data integrity checks
- Interpret awards and assess payroll-related impacts
- Complete redundancy and employee entitlement calculations
- Support payroll remediation and compliance initiatives
- Perform scenario modelling and workforce impact analysis
- Identify payroll risks, anomalies and improvement opportunities
- Partner with payroll, HR, finance and project teams throughout transformation activities

About You





To be successful in this role, you'll bring:

- Strong end-to-end payroll knowledge
- Practical award interpretation experience
- Excellent understanding of payroll compliance and legislation
- Advanced Excel skills and strong analytical capability
- Experience working with large and complex payroll datasets
- Strong reconciliation and problem-solving skills
- Exposure to payroll projects, transformations, integrations or system implementations
- Confidence engaging with a wide range of business stakeholders
- High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy

What's On Offer

- Competitive hourly rate
- 12-month contract opportunity
- Hybrid working arrangement
- Exposure to a high-profile transformation program
- Opportunity to work with senior project, payroll and HR stakeholders
- Team-oriented and supportive team environment

Apply Now

If you're an experienced payroll professional looking to step into a role focused on data, systems, analysis and transformation rather than BAU payroll processing, we would love to hear from you.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a significant business change program while further developing your project and payroll expertise.

📌 Payroll Analyst (Sydney)
🏢 Sharp & Carter
📍 Sydney