Payroll Analytics Lab

Smarter payroll. Stronger compliance.

Payroll Analytics Lab is a PwC-led service, powered by smart technology, that spots payroll risks and opportunities.

As wage rules shift, and scrutiny intensifies, payroll compliance has never been more consequential. Accuracy is critical – not just to meet today’s obligations, but to stay ahead of tomorrow’s risks.

We ingest and analyse your payroll data to surface gaps and potential opportunities – so you can act decisively and move forward with confidence.

Payroll Analytics Lab

Fusing deep compliance expertise with tech.

Unlike software-only tools, we blend payroll, legal and workforce expertise with smart tech to propel you to the right answer for you – faster. It’s what sets us apart. 

We also don’t just detect risks – we help you reshape compliance strategy and drive lasting change.

Services

How we can help

Everyone deserves fair pay – and every payroll team deserves the confidence to deliver it. We help you manage your payroll cost and reduce leakage, so you can focus on what matters most. We can provide an independent review as a one-off service or a series of periodic reviews.

We undertake a data-driven payroll health check to surface any systemic risks or improvement opportunities across wages, leave, superannuation, worker classifications and data quality. 

  • Wage and salary compliance risk diagnostics
  • Leave compliance, including Long Service Leave and Public Holidays during periods of leave 
  • Workforce WHS risk factors in working patterns
  • Casual workforce rights
  • Contractor workforce rights
  • Superannuation
  • Data quality health assessment

We identify and quantify historical payroll underpayments by gathering and validating records, modelling correct entitlements, and documenting each discrepancy – giving you clear repayment figures and actionable insights for full remediation.

  • Data collection
  • Verification of records
  • Modelling and calculating underpayments
  • Identifying discrepancies
  • Documentation
  • Reporting (internal, external, regulator)

We help you communicate remediation outcomes to employees and enable identity validation, bank and superannuation account detail collection and ultimately, payments.

  • Employee communications guidance
  • Identity and payment checks
  • Payment support 

We can monitor payroll activity – leave balances, long service leave entitlements and annual salary reconciliations – for your peace of mind.

  • Ongoing monitoring of Award or Enterprise Agreement compliance 
  • Annual salary reconciliations
  • Leave and leave accruals
  • Long service leave compliance
  • Superannuation contributions

We work with you to enhance performance where needed – from sharper workforce planning and labour cost optimisation to readiness for legislative change – using insight analytics, scenario modelling and clean data to help you adapt your compliance strategy and drive lasting change.

  • Valuation of balance sheet liabilities
  • Workforce planning and cost optimisation
  • Wage leakage identification
  • Better Off Overall Test (BOOT) modelling and bargaining
  • Master data migration

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Claire Soccio

Claire Soccio

Partner, Workforce Leader, PwC Australia

Tel: +61 411 481 681

Sally Woodward

Sally Woodward

Head of Legal, Workplace Law, PwC Australia

Tel: +61 410 576 501

Neil  Roberts

Neil Roberts

Partner, Assurance, PwC Australia

Tel: +61 (3) 8603 5289

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