Salary: $120,872 - $127,234 + super + salary packaging
* Work in an industry leading, person-centred social care organisation
* Join a highly engaged, professional, and collaborative team
* Flexible, family-friendly working arrangements
* Not-for-profit salary packaging up to $15.9k per year
We Are Key Assets Australia
Key Assets is a leading not-for-profit, children, family and community services agency, founded in Australia in 2007. We provide foster care and family services. Operating across all states, the ACT and Norfolk Island, our purpose is to achieve positive and lasting outcomes for children, families, and communities. To achieve that, we need people like you!
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and embrace and celebrate the diversity of all people within our communities. Our diversity helps us provide the best support possible to carers, families, children and young people and all of our external stakeholders.
A little about the role
The Payroll Business Analyst plays a critical role in reviewing, validating and supporting the successful implementation and transition to the future-state HCM ecosystem which integrates core HR, workforce management, payroll and talent capabilities.
Acting as the Payroll subject matter expert for the build, the role delivers specialised business analysis across payroll design, data migration, testing, parallel runs and operational readiness, with a strong focus on payroll discipline, including controls, reconciliations, approvals, cut-off management and pay accuracy.
Other key responsibilities include:
* Provide specialised payroll business analysis to verify payroll rules and legislative requirements are accurately reflected in module configuration and outputs.
* Review existing payroll configuration, design decisions and calculation logic to ensure they meet required payroll outcomes.
* Execute test cases, document defects, perform root-cause analysis, and maintain defect and test registers.
* Deliver and support training activities for payroll and impacted stakeholders, including system walkthroughs, simulations and knowledge-transfer sessions.
* Execute structured payroll parallel runs to validate that new system outputs align with legacy outcomes, ensuring accuracy, compliance and go-live readiness.
The base salary for this position is $120,872 - $127,234 per annum (based on 1.0 FTE) + super + salary packaging options up to $15,900 per annum. This is a full-time temporary position ending February 2028.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will come with strong experience in business analysis activities including requirements gathering, workflow analysis, process mapping and documentation. You will also come with strong demonstrated experience in payroll operations, payroll analysis and/or payroll system implementation.
You will also come with:
* A relevant qualification in Payroll, Accounting, Business, HR or related discipline
* Significant previous experience (8+ years) in payroll across multidisciplinary teams and complex Awards/Enterprise Agreements
* Deep understanding of payroll rules, legislative obligations, taxation, superannuation and award interpretation
* Demonstrated experience conducting payroll UAT including scenario design, test execution and defect management
* Demonstrated experience validating payroll integrations (time & attendance, WFM, HRIS, GL, STP)
* Strong understanding of data migration, data quality principles and reconciliation methods
* Demonstrated ability to analyse payroll outputs, perform variance investigations and interpret complex results
My Key Assets
The health and wellbeing of our people is at the core of our employee and client experience. All employee offerings are intentionally curated with care, allowing you to bring your best self to work, every day. Knowledge sharing, ongoing learning and development, engagement and recognition are key pillars in our culture and values.
* Work-Life Balance: We are well equipped to support a hybrid approach to the future of work and have developed a flexible work framework to support these arrangements. We understand that work-life balance is important and accommodate flexibility for team members wherever possible. Flexible, family-friendly working arrangements and remote work – just ask us!
* Health and Wellbeing: We promote health and wellbeing for our people, just like we would for the children, families and communities we serve. We provide discounted health insurance memberships, confidential counselling services and offer 5 weeks' of annual leave after 2 years' continuous service with us!
* Professional Development: We provide both digital eLearning and ongoing face to face training as well as an online library. Your continual professional development is always top of our priority list - you'll have access to apply to our Annual Learning fund for subsidised professional development opportunities!
* Salary Packaging: part of your wage is paid tax free each pay, saving thousands in tax each year!
The fine print
* For further information, please contact Joanne Ambrose, HRIS Delivery & Implementation Manager at joanne.ambrose@keyassets.org.au.
* Successful candidates will be required to undergo a National Police Check and hold, or be willing to obtain, a valid Working with Children Check.
If you are seeking a role in an excellent, innovative, and supportive team, in a growing organisation, we would love to hear from you. Click Apply today!
Key Assets Australia is committed to Equal Opportunity, ethical practice and the principles of cultural diversity and social inclusion.
Key Assets is a Child Safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people.
While we're reviewing your application, get to know us by visiting our website and on social media at #WeAreKeyAssets.
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