Team Summary

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) Australia, New Zealand, and South Pacific (AUNZSP) is Visa's advisory division, working with Visa's clients (including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants) on a broad range of key business initiatives including strategy, proposition development, loyalty, operational optimisation, customer engagement and overall business profitability.

VCA is made up of three services lines - Advisory, Data Science and Managed Services, the latter being the execution arm of VCA.  Our Managed Services teams (also known as squads) are embedded on client sites leading long-term engagements and delivering value primarily through implementation and execution services.  We deliver objectives from a shared value agenda but are also closely connected to the broader VCA team, sharing knowledge, and bringing the best of Visa to the client.

We are looking for a dedicated Data Analyst to join client’s team for a 12-month fixed term contract. This position will be supporting the client’s FX and Travel Products teams, focused on enhancing daily experiences for Australians through innovative, simplified, and data-driven strategies. This role will be to provide tailored insights to address business challenges.

Data Analyst Responsibilities:

• Analytical, creative problem solver, capable of working both within a team and independently.

• Passionate about customers and the opportunity to build trust and customer advocacy through data driven insights.

• Enthusiastic, self-motivated and focused on continuous improvement.

• You look beyond the status quo to try new approaches and tools, thereby lifting the overall capability of the team.

• Comfortable with conducting full lifecycle analysis to include requirements, activities and design.

• Strong skills in presenting and communicating data insights to both technical and non-technical team members.

Key competencies

• Solution-mind set: Applying creative problem-solving techniques and championing a client-first approach to customer insights when opportunities and challenges arise to meet specific business objectives

• Active Contributor to Team Success: Actively participating as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals. Makes suggestions for achieving team goals or performing team functions, provides necessary assistance to remove obstacles to help the team accomplish its goals

• Business Translator: Translates complex data challenges into well-defined insights, showcasing the impacts of marketing campaigns and enable the effective use of customer targeting. Ability to ‘think like a customer’ and show empathy to their experience is essential

• High-Impact Communication: Clearly and succinctly conveying information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations, communicating in a focused and compelling way that drives others’ thoughts and actions

• Building Strategic Work Relationships: Developing and using collaborative relationships to achieve work goals. Uses good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions (enhances self-esteem, empathizes, involves, discloses, supports).

Why Work with Us:

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment

• Take advantage of working across two organisations

• Collaborative and supportive team culture

• Professional development opportunities to grow your skills and career

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment where your contributions will have a direct impact on our business operations and customer satisfaction. If you are passionate about financial services and eager to drive product success, we would love to hear from you.

Projects you will be a part of:
The role will be based in Sydney, Australia in a hybrid work environment (minimum 3 days in office per week).

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Grow your career with a global retailer as a Senior Analyst within our Financial Planning and Analysis team at ALDI Australia, based in Minchinbury. This is a full-time permanent position.

With the opportunity to leave a lasting imprint on the business and influence our success, your work will extend beyond financial spreadsheets. At ALDI, you will help shape a more profitable and sustainable future not only for the company but also for the customers and communities we serve.

Come join us at ALDI, a place where your financial acumen can make a real difference to real people.

Key responsibilities: 

• Conduct period-end activities, including quarterly business reviews
• Prepare financial forecasting, including the provision of insights, trends and key drivers to enhance business performance. This includes long range planning, monthly/ quarterly forecasting, and annual planning
• Partner with stakeholders to provide financial support on business strategy and annual budgets for the business
• Report and analyse actuals against budgets and forecasts, providing in-depth commercial insights into performance
• Prepare and review presentations for our Executive leadership team with actionable insights, risks and opportunities identification and recommendations
• Participate and at times lead projects both locally and internationally. Be the subject matter expertise in area that fall within the scope of FP&A

• Leverage your payroll expertise to deliver strategic business priorities and outcomes for now and into the future!
• Excellent leadership opportunity within the payroll function for one of Australia’s most well-known brands
• Work with a collaborative and friendly community of People & Culture professionals that are passionate about making a difference together!

What You'll Do

We have an exciting leadership opportunity for an experienced Payroll Manager to join the People & Culture team where you will be accountable for setting the direction and implementation of strategies to ensure a contemporary and best practice centralised payroll function.

In this highly visible role, it is imperative you demonstrate a deep understanding of customer’s wants and needs and engage in opportunities that are fully aligned to the business and company strategy factoring in where we are now and where we are going. The role presents as the expert in terms of what is happening within the industry, stays across technology and market trends and considers the future possibilities.

This is a full-time permanent opportunity and is based from our Sydney CBD and Sydney Olympic Park offices with the flexibility to work from home and sites across Australia as agreed and required for the role.

Your responsibilities will encompass:

• As a thought leader in the field drive the payroll governance direction and frameworks
• Ensures team understand what they are doing and why and create team activities which balance day-to-day activities with long-term needs
• Actively drive the right outcomes and strategies required to ensure that Payroll is ahead of the curve in response to rising regulatory and legislative requirements
• Lead the preparation of Business Cases, Audit and Risk Committee Executive Papers and CEO Reports and communicate/present to Steering Committees/Key Stakeholders/Executives as required
• Deliver a centralised ANZ payroll operating model and establish performance measures and service level goals to track the service delivery of the team
• Shares customer insights with the team regularly and establishes a system to collect customer feedback
• Continuously assess the workloads of the team and resourcing accordingly
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities that will deliver tangible benefits to the business and wider organisation that are simple and standardised to optimise efficiencies and controls
• Continuously review the performance and effectiveness of payroll vendors to KPI’s
• Point of escalation for the team on complex operational issues and queries
• Accountability of the overall end to end payroll including annual calendar of events
• Oversee significant projects that addresses changes and developments that can affect business units and the organisation
• Develop and plan regular project status reporting
• Identification of risks, change impacts and dependencies
• Representing and having involvement with committees, change management programs and stakeholders
• Mentor and coach team members to build team capability
• Develop robust business cases to support investment in new initiatives
• Work closely with the GM People Services and Group Finance team managing budget to target.

What You'll Bring

Essential

• Strong background in payroll service delivery and setting Payroll strategies, direction and priorities.
• 4-6 years of Payroll Shared Services management experience and Payroll qualified.
• Knowledge of legislative requirements in respect of PAYG, FBT, payroll tax, STP and EEO principles.
• Sound understanding of Industrial Award/Enterprise Agreements.
• Strong leadership ability, excellent communication and well developed interpersonal skills.
• Numeric accuracy, strong attention to detail and strong usage of excel spreadsheets.
• Strong project management, organisational, analytical and problem solving skills.
• A proactive and resilient mindset, because there will be challenges that need to be overcome and problems that need to be solved.
• Exceptional communication skills and an ability to foster trust and effective relationships across all levels and diverse businesses.
• Payroll transformation experience and award/EA interperation experiences

Desirable

• Experience working with Dayforce, PayGlobal and any ERP system
• Tertiary qualification in Finance.

What's in it for you?

At the NRMA we aren’t just about discounts (although you do get these). We know everyone leads unique lives, and it’s about those things that add up to make life both at work and outside of work just right for you. 

• Progressive flexibility, leave and well-being benefits to balance all of life's priorities
• Travel discounts on car rental, cruises, and accommodation at our award-winning NRMA Holiday Parks and Resorts.
• Complimentary myNRMA membership including free Roadside Assistance & discounts on groceries, movie tickets, gift cards, gym memberships, attractions, restaurants and much more
• Discounts on all NRMA insurance products including car, home & travel

At the NRMA inclusion and diversity are part of our DNA. Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. It fuels our innovation, promotes flexible ways of working and connects us closer to our members and the communities we serve.

Successful applicants will be required to complete pre-employment checks.

Our Talent Acquisition Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. The NRMA is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.