SAP Solutions Business Support Analyst - Payroll

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The opportunity

• ​​​​​​Join CSIRO - Australia's National Science and Innovation Agency
• Collaborate across teams to deliver streamlined, user-friendly system experiences
• Use data & insights to develop inclusive, efficient solutions for the employee lifecycle

As part of the SAP Solutions Team within Information Management & Technology (IM&T), as the SAP Payroll Support Analyst you will play a key role in the Business Support team by providing specialist payroll and time management expertise. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with colleagues across the People Business Unit, IM&T, and broader CSIRO to support and enhance payroll and time management processes. 

Your work will help create a streamlined and inclusive systems experience by bringing together multiple functions across the organisation and simplifying processes that support every stage of the employee lifecycle.

Your duties will include:

• Champion employee technology to drive maximum productivity for all end users.
  
• Help establish a culture of continuous improvement and curiosity across all aspects of the People systems lifecycle.  
  
• Work with the People and IM&T teams to ensure that solutions are delivered with the appropriate levels of quality, performance, availability, security, supportability, reusability, sociability and automation.
  
• Utilise effective partnering strategies across the Enterprise Services functions of CSIRO.
  
• Work with key staff in the People Team to deliver systems to support the CSIRO pay cycles. 
  
• Effectively represent the IT function across CSIRO.

Location: Flexible - can be based in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane

Salary: AU$114,219 - AU$123,605 plus up to 15.4% superannuation

Tenure: Indefinite 

Reference: 99812

To be considered you will need:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience working as an SAP Payroll Support Analyst with demonstrated sound knowledge of payroll processes and procedures, and broader HR business practices.
  
• Demonstrated extensive experience in configuration of SAP ECC6 to support payroll and leave calculations.
  
• Demonstrated experience with writing functional specifications to translate business needs into system requirements.
  
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and with initiative to communicate, collaborate and work effectively across organisational boundaries.
  
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to a diverse and challenging program of work across the core SuccessFactors and on-Premise SAP solutions.
  
• Demonstrated ability to create a positive impact within a team environment.

Desired:

• Payroll related SAP training qualifications such as:
• HR305 – Configuration of Master Data
• HR306 - Configuration of Time Recording
• HR110 - Business Processes in HCM Payroll
• HR400 - Payroll Configuration

For full details about this role please review the Position Description

Eligibility

Applications for this position are open to Australian Citizens. The successful candidate must have and maintain a security clearance at the NV1 level. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.

Flexible working arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work. 

Diversity and inclusion

We are working hard to recruit people representing the diversity across our society, and ensure that all our people feel supported to do their best work and feel empowered to let their ideas flourish. 

About CSIRO

At CSIRO Australia's national science agency, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. We put the safety and wellbeing of our people above all else and earn trust everywhere because we only deal in facts. We collaborate widely and generously and deliver solutions with real impact. 

CSIRO is committed to values-based leadership to inspire performance and unlock the potential of our people.

Join us and start creating tomorrow today!

How to apply

Please apply on-line and provide a cover letter and CV that best demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the requirements of this role.

Applications close

28 July 2025, 11:00pm AEST