Principal Pay Data Analytics

**Date**:22 Sept 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:06-Oct-2025;15:59:59GMT

**Job Country**:Australia

**Job State/Province**:Queensland

**Job Location/Region**:Brisbane

**About BHP**

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success.
- About the Role
- Leads a team focused on pay compliance data analytics, monitoring and reporting, addressing system and data issues and provide guidance to all teams within BHP. Manages and maintains analytics tools and dashboard/s to monitor pay compliance across BHP. Works with SMEs to address data variances and gaps aligned to existing calculation methodologies and BHP risk appetite/profile. Uses data driven insights to recommend solutions for operational fixes and ongoing improvement.
- Managing, assessing and remediating risk across the hire to retire value chain, and driving compliance of payroll functional processes aligned to BHP’s employment obligations, risk and governance protocols.
- Applies an understanding of technical systems, systems integration and data models when conducting work activities and executes and governs technical system legal requirements to maintain and improve the efficiency and compliance of functional integrity systems across BHP.
- Wrangles, cleanses and manages data/metadata to maintain the quality and integrity of BHP data and ensure compliance with data security, privacy and legal requirements.
- Manages new and existing sets of master data, runs and cleanses reports to remove errors and improve the quality of master data across BHP.
- Makes evidence based and strategic decisions in alignment with longer term business objectives.
- Identifies, engages and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
- Sources information, plans and conducts analyses to support evidence based decision making.
- Engages the capabilities of the entire organisation.
- Strives to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste.
- Knows our customer and is obsessed with meeting their needs.

About You
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent from a related discipline (Masters of Data Science / Degree in Applied Mathematics / Computer Science / Engineering or Data Analytics / Science)
- Working knowledge of common data analytics concepts (e.g. ETL, joins, aggregation).
- Extensive proficiency in programming language/s or data analytics tools (e.g. SQL, Python, R, etc.).
- Ability to conceptualise and solve complex or ambiguous payroll related data problems.
- Extensive knowledge of HR and Payroll systems and data from various / multiple systems and sources.
- Understanding of Enterprise Agreements, Modern Awards, superannuation, leave and other entitlements is advantageous.

**About Our Process**

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.