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Senior Business Analyst - Workday HCM & Payroll Melbourne

Desda GroupMelbourne, Melbourne🇦🇺Australia

Why this role stands out

This 12-month hybrid contract offers a fantastic opportunity to drive a critical HR and payroll transformation for a leading Australian super fund, enhancing your expertise in Workday HCM and Payroll. You'll thrive if you have a strong background in Australian payroll and enjoy translating complex needs into successful system implementations, making this an excellent step for your career growth.

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeFull Time
Work modeHybrid
LocationMelbourne, Melbourne, Australia
PayrollWorkday

Job description

Senior Business Analyst - Workday HCM & Payroll

Leading Australian super fund People & Payroll Transformation (Workday) Sydney or Melbourne, hybrid 12-month contract with possible extension

The role

Our client, a leading Australian super fund, is replacing its legacy HR and payroll platforms with Workday HCM and Workday Payroll for Australia. You'll be the business's voice in design: turning HR, payroll and compliance needs into clear requirements, challenging the integrator, and keeping the line from requirement to test intact through go-live.

What you'll do
  • Map current-state hire-to-retire and time-to-pay processes and build the pay rules inventory.
  • Own requirements, acceptance criteria and traceability across HCM and payroll scope.
  • Lead design workshops with the Workday partner, favouring standard design over customisation.
  • Specify Australian payroll requirements: awards and the enterprise agreement, STP Phase 2, super guarantee and Payday Super, payroll tax and long service leave.
  • Define integration and data migration requirements, then support testing, parallel runs and cutover.
  • Produce future-state processes and support change, training and BAU handover.
What you'll bring
  • 8+ years as a BA, including senior roles on enterprise HR and payroll implementations.
  • At least one full-lifecycle Workday HCM implementation; Workday Payroll for Australia strongly preferred.
  • Deep knowledge of Australian payroll and award interpretation.
  • Hands on experience with parallel runs, data migration reconciliation and UAT.
  • The confidence to challenge a systems integrator, and the clarity to brief a steering committee.
  • Superannuation or APRA-regulated experience and Workday certification are a plus.
What success looks like

Requirements are baselined and signed off early, every requirement traces to a passed test, parallel runs reconcile, and the first live pay lands with no material errors.

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