Payroll Analyst

About the role

The Payroll Analyst will play a critical role in supporting the Pathology onboarding project involving approximately 650 employees. Initially, this position will focus on a four-month project to transition employees from an external public hospital into the Alfred Health environment, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely onboarding and successful first-pay outcomes. Working closely with Payroll, HRIS, HR, IT, and other key stakeholders, the Payroll Analyst will support the end-to-end onboarding process, including data validation, system uploads, compliance activities, payroll readiness, and issue resolution. A key objective of the role is to deliver a seamless employee experience throughout the transition, minimising disruption and ensuring no adverse payroll impacts.

Responsibilities

• Support the Pathology onboarding project involving approximately 650 employees.
• Ensure accurate, compliant, and timely onboarding and successful first-pay outcomes.
• Work closely with Payroll, HRIS, HR, IT, and other key stakeholders to support the end-to-end onboarding process.
• Perform data validation, system uploads, compliance activities, payroll readiness, and issue resolution.
• Deliver a seamless employee experience throughout the transition, minimising disruption and ensuring no adverse payroll impacts.
• Transition into the operational Payroll team after project implementation, providing support for business-as-usual payroll processing, workforce administration activities, and ongoing operational requirements.
• Provide expert advice, guidance, and support to Payroll Officers and stakeholders.
• Maintain high standards of customer service.
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives.
• Support the continued delivery of accurate, compliant, and efficient payroll services across the organisation.

Requirements

• Experience supporting payroll projects, implementations, or large-scale onboarding.
• Strong data validation, reconciliation, and testing capability.
• Experience with payroll readiness, first pay validation, and hypercare support.
• Proven payroll experience in a large, complex, high-volume environment.
• Sound knowledge of enterprise agreements, awards, superannuation, and salary packaging.
• Strong analytical, reporting, and data interpretation skills.
• Able to manage competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment.
• Excellent customer service and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking capability.
• Able to work autonomously and take initiative.
• Confidence to question, identify risks, and improve processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High attention to detail, especially with large datasets.
• A strong delivery focus and commitment to quality outcomes.
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills (data analysis and reconciliation).

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare payroll.
• Experience in HRIS/payroll implementations or onboarding processes.
• Exposure to data migration or bulk onboarding activities.
• Tertiary qualification in HR, Finance, or related discipline.
• SAP SuccessFactors (EC, ECP, PCC) experience.
• UKG (Kronos) experience.
• Experience in continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

• Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills (data analysis and reconciliation).

Benefits

• New carpark waiting list at The Alfred (Prahran).
• Salary Packaging.
• Staff Car parking (subject to availability).
• Onsite Gym (Alfred Hospital).
• Childcare Services (Alfred Hospital).

Pay and Schedule

Full-time Fixed Term – 4 months (80 hours per fortnight - with flexible ADO).

Contact

All inquiries to Sonya Morgan, Deputy Director Payroll Services via email: sonya.morgan@alfred.org.au

Application Instructions

Applications Close: 11pm AEST, Tuesday 28th July 2026.

Equal Opportunity

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, and people of all genders, sexualities, and cultural backgrounds.