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 qualified 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
Robust end-to-end payroll knowledge
Practical award interpretation experience
Excellent understanding of payroll compliance and legislation
Advanced Excel skills and solid 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
Collaborative and supportive team environment

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