Business Analyst - Payroll

About the Company

Join an established ASX-listed organisation with a workforce of more than 2,500 employees and a proud history spanning over 100 years. Renowned for its market-leading products and strong industry presence, the business is currently undertaking a significant technology and business transformation journey.

With a collaborative culture, flexible hybrid working arrangements, and substantial investment in modernising its systems and operations, this is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of a truly iconic Australian organisation.

About the Role

As the Senior Business Analyst, you'll play a central role in bridging business and technology teams, supporting the successful consolidation of payroll processes, systems and data into a single SAP Payroll instance.

You'll be deeply involved in requirements gathering, process analysis, data migration, testing and stakeholder engagement, ensuring payroll operations continue to run accurately and efficiently throughout the transformation journey.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, analyse and document business and payroll requirements
• Facilitate workshops with Payroll, HR, Technology and business stakeholders
• Analyse current-state payroll processes and identify opportunities for improvement
• Support payroll system consolidation activities and business process alignment
• Develop and maintain data mapping documentation for payroll data migration
• Assist with payroll data validation and reconciliation activities
• Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and payroll parallel runs
• Create test scenarios, test cases and support defect management activities
• Partner with payroll SMEs to ensure payroll calculations and employee data are accurately migrated
• Manage stakeholder expectations across multiple business entities and workstreams

Skills & Experience required

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst delivering payroll transformation, implementation, or consolidation initiatives
• Strong functional knowledge of SAP Payroll and payroll operations
• Experience working across complex, multi-entity or shared-services environments
• Proven ability to gather and document business requirements, facilitate workshops, and map business processes
• Strong experience supporting data migration activities, including data mapping, validation, and reconciliation
• Hands-on experience coordinating and supporting UAT, system testing, and defect management
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage effectively across Payroll, HR, Technology, and business teams
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Highly Regarded

• Experience working with HRIS platforms
• Exposure to SAP HCM environments
• Previous involvement in large-scale HR, Payroll, ERP, or business transformation programs
• Deep understanding of payroll compliance, employee awards, deductions, leave management, and payroll governance
• Experience supporting payroll parallel runs and go-live activities