Payroll Data Analyst

Salary: 500-650

Data Analyst (Payroll) 9-Month Contract | Sydney (Hybrid)

About the Company
Our client is a growing financial services business with a national presence across Australia. Backed by private equity, the group has expanded rapidly, including through acquisition, and continues to scale as it strengthens its operations across the country.

About the Role
Based in Sydney (hybrid) on a 9-month contract, this role sits within a transformation program bringing multiple systems and entities. You'll consolidate payroll data from across the group, interrogate it for gaps and inconsistencies, and reconcile the result so the program can trust its numbers.

Benefits

• Hybrid working, based in Sydney
• Genuine exposure to a large-scale payroll transformation program
• Real ownership of a defined body of work, with visible impact on the program's outcome
• A clearly scoped, fixed-term contract running through to go live

Duties / Key Responsibilities

• Consolidate payroll data and files arriving from multiple systems and entities across the group
• Analyse and interrogate the data to surface gaps, duplicates and inconsistencies before it reaches the target system
• Prepare, load and verify data against target structures ahead of go live
• Lead reconciliation activities, investigating variances and tracking them through to resolution
• Build and maintain Excel-based tooling, including macros, to automate analysis and validation work

Skills and Experience

• At least five years' experience in a data analyst or data-focused role
• Advanced Excel skills, including building macros, used daily rather than occasionally
• SQL or python skills are advantageous
• Experience on a transformation, migration or system implementation program
• A background in payroll, finance transformation or HRIS, payroll preferred
• Comfortable working with data arriving in inconsistent formats from multiple sources
• Strong reconciliation discipline, with the ability to explain why a variance exists, not just that it does
• Ability to work at pace against a fixed go-live date

Highly regarded: Workday or other HCM/payroll implementation exposure, experience inside a multi-entity or acquisitive business, SQL, Power Query or Power BI, a professional services, accounting or financial services background, and exposure to payroll systems such as Xero, MYOB, Employment Hero, KeyPay, Ascender or Preceda.