Business Analyst – HR, Payroll & Workforce Transformation (Contract)

At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together.

We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow.

As a Business Analyst you will play a key role in a large-scale enterprise transformation across Payroll, Core HR, and Workforce Management. You will be responsible for eliciting and validating business requirements, designing future-state processes, and ensuring seamless integration across systems, working closely with stakeholders across HR, Payroll, Finance, and Technology. This is a contract opportunity.

In this role, you will translate Australian payroll legislation, awards, and EBAs into functional requirements, while supporting configuration validation across payroll calculations, leave, and superannuation. You will also contribute to workforce management requirements such as rostering, time capture, and integrations, ensuring accurate data flow and reconciliation across HR, payroll, and time systems.

Additionally, you will support end-to-end testing (SIT, UAT, parallel runs), payroll reconciliation, and defect triage, while contributing to data migration, data quality, and master data integrity. Acting as a key liaison between business and technology teams, you will also support stakeholder engagement, change impact activities, and program reporting.

• Strong experience as a Business Analyst within large enterprise or transformation environments
• Proven delivery experience across Payroll, HRIS, and Workforce Management / Time & Attendance systems
• Solid knowledge of Australian payroll legislation, awards, EBAs, and compliance requirements
• Hands-on experience with platforms such as Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, ADP, UKG/Kronos (or similar)
• Demonstrated experience in system implementations, migrations, or transformation programs
• Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills across business and technology teams

Why join us: 

NCS Australia is where you can feel at home, nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together, one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave, initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint, industry and partner training programs, special interest groups, and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career, we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.

NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer, and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we serve.We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

At NCS Australia, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply. 

Agencies:

We’ve got this. We request that you do not contact NCS employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. NCS exclusively accepts resumes from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal. Agencies that submit resumes must have a valid fee agreement and be assigned to the particular requisition by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resumes that are submitted outside of this process will become the sole property of NCS. If a candidate is hired outside of this process, no fee or payment will be given.

Work rights and background checks: 

To be eligible for a position with us, applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process, including probity and police checks