Payroll Compliance Data Analyst – Consultant

About the role

KPMG Australia is hiring a Payroll Compliance Data Analyst as a consultant within its Payroll Compliance team in Sydney. The role supports the team in delivering solutions to clients on a variety of engagements, applying knowledge of client, firm and industry trends to address complex payroll compliance challenges. It is a permanent full-time position.

Key responsibilities

• Analyse large and complex payroll and time and attendance datasets to find 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 business and legal requirements into technical data specifications, helping prepare methodologies and analytical reports for client presentations.
• Deliver end-to-end wage remediation engagements, from scoping and data ingestion through to calculation validation, quality review and final reporting.
• Run data quality assessments and reconciliation procedures to ensure payroll data accuracy and integrity.
• Prepare technical working papers, client-ready reports and data visualisations that explain compliance risks, financial impacts and remediation outcomes.

Required profile

• Excellent communication skills.
• Solid understanding of KPMG procedures and internal processes.
• Comprehensive knowledge of audit and accounting practices.
• Strong professional acumen, able to lead and direct a team.
• Project management skills, including setting baselines, milestones, work breakdown structures and resource planning.
• Ability to create sales material such as proposals and case studies.

Required skills

• SQL, Python and Excel for data modelling and analysis.
• Desired tertiary qualification combining business disciplines (finance, accounting, law) and technical disciplines (engineering, IT, computing).

What we offer

• Salary range of $80k - $100k+ depending on experience.
• Flexible hours and locations, paid parental leave and career breaks.
• Retail discounts, health and wellbeing initiatives, learning and growth opportunities and salary packaging options.