Payroll Data & Transition Specialist

About the role

Ampol is hiring a Payroll Data & Transition Specialist for an 8-month contract, open to candidates in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. The role is a dedicated payroll subject matter expert supporting the project delivery of an ongoing integration, and is not a BAU payroll processing position. It applies deep payroll knowledge in a project, systems and data environment, focusing on complex payroll data, systems, reconciliation, compliance and workforce change.

Key responsibilities

• Extract, cleanse, transform and validate complex payroll data for project and system requirements.
• Prepare accurate system upload files and support payroll data requirements across SAP, SuccessFactors, UKG and Excel.
• Analyse and reconcile large or complex payroll datasets, identifying anomalies, risks and downstream impacts.
• Perform redundancy and employee entitlement calculations with legislative and compliance consideration.
• Interpret awards and assess their payroll impacts, and undertake scenario modelling of payroll and workforce impacts.
• Support remediation planning and analysis arising from payroll audit outcomes.
• Provide payroll SME expertise across acquisition, integration, transition and workforce change activities, partnering with payroll, project and systems stakeholders.

Required profile

• Deep end-to-end payroll knowledge, including payroll legislation, compliance and employee entitlements.
• Practical experience extracting, cleansing, transforming, validating and reconciling payroll data.
• Demonstrated experience completing redundancy and entitlement calculations.
• Strong practical award interpretation experience.
• Experience interpreting payroll audit outcomes and supporting remediation planning is beneficial.
• Payroll transition, acquisition, integration, implementation or transformation experience is highly desirable.

Required skills

• Strong hands-on SAP experience, ideally SAP ECC Payroll, SAP HCM or SAP HR.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills and strong payroll data analysis capability.
• Experience with SuccessFactors and/or UKG is beneficial.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and scenario modelling capability with attention to data accuracy.

What we offer

• Competitive total remuneration.
• Flexible arrangements, with many teams working hybrid.
• Internal recognition platform.
• Career development and learning opportunities, including LinkedIn Learning and tailored training.