Payroll Compliance Data Analyst – Consultant 80k to 100k

Join our Payroll Compliance team and play a pivotal role in delivering impactful solutions to our clients. This is your chance to work on diverse engagements, apply your expertise, and build strong relationships with clients and colleagues.

Your Opportunity

• Support the Payroll Compliance team in executing a variety of projects and engagements.
• Leverage your knowledge of client, firm, and industry trends to address complex payroll compliance challenges.
• Collaborate effectively with clients and team members to share insights and foster strong partnerships.
• Analyse large and complex payroll and time and attendance datasets to uncover discrepancies, underpayments, and wage compliance issues.
• Develop and maintain SQL, Python, and Excel-based data models to support payroll recalculations and remediation programs in line with industrial instruments.
• Translate intricate business and legal requirements into clear technical data specifications, contributing to the preparation of methodologies and analytical reports for client presentations.
• Deliver end-to-end wage remediation engagements, from scoping and data ingestion to calculation validation, quality review, and final reporting.
• Conduct data quality assessments and reconciliation procedures to ensure payroll data accuracy and integrity throughout remediation projects.
• Prepare technical working papers, client-ready reports, and data visualisations that effectively communicate payroll compliance risks, financial impacts, and remediation outcomes.

How are you extraordinary?

• You have a can-do attitude and are always seeking creative solutions to problems with the help of the right technical tools and a supportive team
• You are a project management pro, with a love of big-picture thinking and the skills to see projects from beginning to end; such as establishing project details, performance measurement baselines, key milestones, work breakdown structures, and resource planning
• You are tuned in to business development opportunities, with confidence creating effective sales material including proposals, case studies, and other sector-specific material.

Your Experience

At KPMG, we believe diversity of thought, background and experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, our clients, and communities. To be considered for this opportunity, your qualifications, skills & experience could include:

• Excellent communication skills.
• A solid understanding of KPMG procedures and internal processes.
• Comprehensive knowledge of audit and accounting practises.
• Strong professional acumen with the ability to lead and direct a team effectively.

Please note, the salary ranges $80k - $100k+ with respect to your level of experience.

The position is a Permanent Full-Time role based in Sydney.

Qualifications

Desired tertiary qualifications in a combination of business disciplines (e.g., finance, accounting, law) and technical disciplines (e.g., engineering, IT, computing).