Case Remediation Lead

We are partnering with a leading higher education client to recruit a Case Remediation Lead to support the delivery of a large scale workplace compliance and staff remediation program.

The role sits within a growing workplace relations and compliance team and offers the opportunity to help shape processes, governance frameworks and remediation practices as the program transitions from project delivery into a long term operational function.

The Opportunity

As the Case Remediation Lead, you will play a key role in supporting remediation activities relating to wage compliance and employee underpayment matters. You will work closely with the Senior Manager and internal stakeholders across HR, payroll, legal and compliance to ensure remediation cases are assessed, calculated and resolved accurately.

This role is largely focused on frameworks, governance and remediation calculations, supporting investigations led by case officers and ensuring consistent remediation approaches across cases.

You will also contribute to building sustainable processes and systems that support the organisation’s long term compliance strategy.

Key Responsibilities

* Provide oversight and support to remediation activities including assessment, calculation and resolution of underpayment claims
* Review and validate remediation calculations to ensure accuracy and consistency across cases
* Develop and maintain remediation frameworks, methodologies and documentation
* Support case officers undertaking workplace investigations relating to wage compliance matters
* Liaise closely with payroll, HR, legal and compliance teams to ensure coordinated remediation outcomes
* Interpret complex payroll and workforce data to support remediation decisions
* Monitor remediation trends and identify potential systemic risks or compliance issues
* Contribute to process improvements, governance frameworks and remediation best practices
* Support the development of preventative strategies to minimise future compliance risks

Skills and Experience

We are looking for candidates who bring experience in large scale remediation or compliance environments, ideally involving complex workforce or payroll data.

Relevant backgrounds may include:

* Wage remediation programs or workplace compliance investigations
* Workplace relations or employment law environments
* Consulting experience within Big 4 firms such as PwC or Deloitte
* Financial services remediation or financial crime remediation programs
* In house remediation or compliance functions within large organisations

You will also demonstrate:

* Strong analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to interpret complex data
* Experience developing remediation frameworks, governance models or compliance processes
* Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to work across HR, payroll and legal teams
* Strong judgement and the ability to manage sensitive matters with discretion
* The ability to work autonomously in a fast evolving environment

Work Environment

* Hybrid working, typically 2 to 3 days in the office
* Collaborative team structure with strong senior leadership support

Talent International is currently recruiting a Category Manager to work for the NSW Government, based in Parramatta. This position is a contract role for 3 months initially, with a view to be extended , and the role pays $720 per day + Super.

7 hours a day / 35 hours a week

About the Role

You will lead the strategic planning, sourcing, and lifecycle management of procurement arrangements across indirect categories such as travel, towing, and contract administration.

The role involves partnering with internal stakeholders to develop category strategies, drive value for money, and ensure procurement outcomes align with NSW public sector policies and governance frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement category management strategies to deliver strong commercial outcomes.
• Lead end-to-end procurement and sourcing activities across assigned categories.
• Provide strategic procurement advice to internal stakeholders across the organisation.
• Manage supplier relationships, contract performance, and negotiations.
• Identify and manage procurement risks while ensuring compliance with public sector procurement policies.
• Maintain clear documentation to support probity, governance, and audit requirements.

About You

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate:

• Proven experience in category management, procurement, or contract management.
• Strong knowledge of public sector procurement frameworks (NSW Government experience highly regarded).
• Experience managing end-to-end sourcing processes and supplier negotiations.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Strong analytical, commercial, and risk management capability.
• Ability to work proactively in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

Additional Information

• Category portfolio focuses on indirect procurement categories (not ICT).
• Opportunity to work with stakeholders across the organisation.
• Team is currently going through a period of transformation and change.
• Flexible working arrangements available (3-4 days in the office).

If you are interested in this role, please APPLY NOW by submitting your resume in MS Word Format. For further information, you may contact Uvez Ahmed on 0480 806 154 / uvez.ahmed@talentinternational.com for a confidential discussion.

Talent International is working in partnership with a multi-national organisation to assist in sourcing a Manager of Governance Risk and Assurance, on a contract basis, based in Parramatta.

Acting as a trusted advisor to the CISO, the successful candidate will be responsible for embedding strong risk practices, secure-by-design principles, and a positive cyber culture across the organisation, while ensuring the department remains aligned with NIST CSF 2.0 and best practice standards.

The role will also provide strategic leadership across a complex and evolving regulatory environment, ensuring the business maintains an effective, risk-aware culture and meets its obligations as a custodial steward of critical digital assets.

Summary of key duties

• Develop and maintain the GRC framework (including policies, standards and procedures
• Oversee the Line-1 assurance plan and control testing program mapped to NIST CSF 2.0
• Define, monitor and report KRIs/KPIs, control-effectiveness metrics, and cultural metrics to CISO
• Lead solution security architecture oversight, embedding secure-by-design principles and reference architectures
• Lead the cyber culture, awareness and engagement program, shaping behaviors, training and targeted campaigns that uplift cyber resilience
• Translate complex risk and technical insights into clear advice for senior leadership, Board committees, and sector forums

In order to be considered we are seeking skilled Governance and Risk professionals who have the following skills and experience

• Extensive experience in governance, risk, and assurance leadership roles within complex organizations such as government, or financial services
• Experience managing cross-functional GRA teams with competing strategic and operational priorities.
• Proven expertise in cyber and enterprise IT risk management frameworks, particularly NIST CSF 2.0, ISO/IEC 27001/27005, ISO 31000, ACSC Essential Eight, and related standards.
• Proven expertise in cyber and enterprise IT risk management frameworks, particularly NIST CSF 2.0
• Demonstrated experience in leading or overseeing assurance testing programs

For immediate consideration please forward a copy of your current resume via the APPLY button or email Patrick at Talent International on patricko@talentinternational.com.au

Specific queries related to the role can be made on 02 9223 9855

Cyber Security Architect
Location: Sydney (Hybrid)
Contract: Until December 2026 (with possible extension)
Sector: Government

We are currently seeking an experienced Cyber Security Architect to support key cybersecurity initiatives within a large government environment based in inner Sydney. This role will play a critical part in strengthening cloud security architecture, advancing DevSecOps capabilities, and enhancing enterprise email security.

The successful candidate will contribute to strategic security initiatives focused on improving existing platforms and designing the organisation’s future security architecture.

Key Projects

DevSecOps Uplift and Rationalisation
This initiative includes two streams:

• A tactical stream focused on improving current platforms and security controls.

• A strategic stream responsible for designing the organisation’s future-state DevSecOps architecture.

Email Security Uplift
This project will enhance the organisation’s email security capabilities using Mimecast CyberGraph and Advanced BEC technologies, including the implementation of dynamic email banners for staff to strengthen protection against phishing and business email compromise.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide cybersecurity architecture expertise across major security uplift initiatives.

• Design and implement secure cloud architectures across Azure and AWS.

• Embed modern DevSecOps security practices, including SAST, SCA and DAST.

• Contribute to the design of future-state DevSecOps security architecture.

• Strengthen enterprise email security capabilities using advanced threat protection tools.

• Ensure secure design principles are implemented across cloud and infrastructure platforms.

• Work closely with engineering, infrastructure and security teams to improve governance, resilience and compliance.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Cyber Security Architect, Cloud Architect or similar role.

• Strong experience with Azure and AWS, including:

  • Secure solution design

  • Identity and access management

  • Governance and compliance

• Demonstrated experience with modern DevSecOps practices and tools, including:

  • SAST (Static Application Security Testing)

  • SCA (Software Composition Analysis)

  • DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing)

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration and management.

• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture principles and security frameworks.

• At least 5 years of cybersecurity experience in complex ICT environments, including incident management.

Desirable

• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Relevant certifications such as:

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect

  • Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Talent is partnering with a leading insurance organisation to recruit a Data Analyst to support a major data migration program. This role will play an important part in analysing legacy datasets, validating data, and ensuring the integrity and accuracy of information as it moves to a new data platform.

This is a great opportunity to work on a large-scale transformation initiative, collaborating with data engineers, business stakeholders, and project teams to ensure successful migration outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse and interpret legacy data sources to support a large-scale data migration program.

• Write and optimise SQL queries to extract, validate, and reconcile data.

• Support data mapping, validation, and reconciliation activities throughout the migration process.

• Work closely with engineers and project teams to ensure data accuracy and consistency.

• Assist with identifying data quality issues and anomalies, and help drive resolution.

• Document data logic, rules, and migration outcomes.

Key Skills & Experience

• Financial Services experience is a must (Insurance is highly desirable)

• Strong SQL skills and experience working with complex datasets.

• Experience supporting data migration, transformation, or data platform initiatives.

• Ability to analyse and interpret large datasets and identify data quality issues.

• Strong stakeholder communication and documentation skills.

• Experience within financial services environments is highly regarded, with insurance exposure a plus.

If you are a Data Analyst with 5+ years of experience and enjoy working on large data transformation programs, we would love to speak with you. For a confidential discussion, please reach out to Josh.costigan@Talentinternational.com

Senior Security Project Manager

Initial 12 Month Contract

Sydney CBD based – Hybrid

Looking for a proactive Cyber Security Project Manager to lead critical security initiatives in a government setting. This 12-month contract in Sydney CBD (hybrid) offers a chance to strengthen cyber defenses, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure digital services across multiple agencies.

Responsibilities:

• Lead multidisciplinary project teams, including cybersecurity experts and vendors
• Coordinate internal teams and external partners to deliver security outcomes
• Manage stakeholder engagement across agencies
• Facilitate workshops to address compliance, privacy, and security challenges
• Develop project plans, procurement, and briefing documentation
• Track progress, report on project status, and monitor budgets
• Provide accurate reporting to senior leadership

Essential Criteria:

• Proven experience leading cybersecurity projects from conception to delivery
• Knowledge of Cloud and DevSecOps security concepts
• Ability to translate design references into actionable road-maps with milestones
• Strong vendor, contract, and team management skills
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication capabilities
• Experience with risk management, compliance, and financial oversight
• Prior experience working within government or regulated environments

If you’re passionate about driving impactful security projects and thrive in fast-paced environments, we’d love to hear from you!

Apply now to join a pivotal cybersecurity transformation. Please submit your cover letter & CV application in Word format only by clicking the “APPLY NOW” button below or email to anna.au@talentinternational.com

Talent is partnering with a leading insurance organisation to recruit a Lead Data Engineer for a key data migration program.

This role will play a critical part in migrating legacy data platforms from SQL Server to Azure Databricks, helping modernise the organisation’s data ecosystem and support future analytics capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of data migration solutions from SQL Server to Azure Databricks.

• Develop and optimise data pipelines and transformation processes within the Azure ecosystem.

• Work closely with architects, data engineers, and business stakeholders to ensure successful migration outcomes.

• Ensure data quality, governance, and performance throughout the migration process.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers within the program.

• Identify and mitigate risks associated with large-scale data migrations.

Key Skills & Experience

• Financial Services experience is a must (Insurance is highly beneficial)

• Proven experience leading or delivering data migration programs.

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Databricks.

• Experience working with SQL Server and migrating legacy data platforms to modern cloud environments.

• Strong knowledge of data engineering principles, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data architecture.

• Experience working within financial services environments.

• Exposure to insurance (particularly general insurance) is highly regarded.

• Strong stakeholder communication and problem-solving skills.

If you are interested, please apply now. For a confidential discussion, please reach out to Josh.costigan@talentinternational.com

Our client is seeking an experienced Data Program Manager to lead the delivery of a new enterprise data warehouse within a complex Insurance or Financial Services environment. This role will be responsible for driving the end-to-end program delivery, coordinating multiple workstreams across data engineering, architecture, analytics, and business teams to ensure successful implementation.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience delivering large-scale data platforms, cloud data warehouses, and data transformation programs, with the ability to manage stakeholders across business, technology, risk, and regulatory teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of a new enterprise data warehouse program, ensuring alignment with business strategy and data governance frameworks.

• Manage multiple project streams including data architecture, data engineering, integration, analytics, reporting, and data governance.

• Define and manage program roadmap, delivery plans, budgets, and timelines.

• Coordinate cross-functional teams including data engineers, architects, BI developers, analysts, and business stakeholders.

• Work closely with enterprise architecture and data governance teams to ensure alignment with data standards, security, and regulatory requirements.

• Oversee data migration, integration, and transformation activities from legacy systems into the new data warehouse environment.

• Identify and manage program risks, issues, dependencies, and change impacts.

• Drive stakeholder engagement and executive reporting, ensuring clear communication of progress, risks, and outcomes.

• Ensure delivery supports data-driven decision making, reporting, regulatory compliance, and advanced analytics capabilities.

• Facilitate Agile or hybrid delivery frameworks across program teams.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Program Manager delivering large-scale data or analytics programs.

• Strong experience delivering data warehouse, data lake, or enterprise data platform implementations.

• Experience within Insurance or Financial Services environments.

• Strong understanding of data architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, data governance, and analytics platforms.

• Experience working with cloud-based data platforms (e.g” Databricks).

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex multi-stream programs with cross-functional teams.

• Strong stakeholder management experience across business leaders, technology teams, and vendors.

• Experience delivering data transformation and modernisation programs.

• Experience with Agile delivery methodologies (SAFe, Scrum, Hybrid).

• Strong communication and influencing skills.

• Able to manage ambiguity and drive outcomes in complex environments.

If you think you have the above skills and experiences, click the ‘Apply’ button or send your resume to alex.nguyen@talentinternational.com

Please Notes: Visa sponsorship is not available. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for this role.

Talent International, a leading Australian recruitment firm, have been engaged by our long-standing client, a leading organisation within the healthcare sector. We are seeking an experienced Payroll Team Leader to support and strengthen their payroll function.

Role Title: Payroll Team Leader
Location + WFH Flexibility: Macquarie Park | Hybrid – 3 days office / 2 days WFH (4-5 days during payroll week)
Salary: $137,000 + super
Project: Supporting payroll operations and assisting with an upcoming payroll system transition
Client Industry: Healthcare
Start Date: ASAP
Interview Process: 2 rounds of interviews

Role Details:

* Lead and mentor the payroll team while supporting the Head of Payroll with day-to-day operational management.
* Manage and oversee end-to-end payroll processing across Australian and New Zealand employees, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
* Provide strong technical payroll guidance and assist with complex payroll calculations including terminations, tax, superannuation and leave entitlements.
* Support the payroll team through an upcoming system transition across the organisation’s clinics.
* Ensure compliance with Australian and New Zealand payroll legislation including Fair Work, Superannuation Guarantee and NZ Holidays Act requirements.
* Work closely with internal stakeholders across HR and Finance to ensure payroll accuracy and process improvement.

Required Skills and Experiences:

* Approximately 7+ years payroll experience with strong exposure to AU and NZ payroll.
* Experience in a leadership, mentoring or senior payroll capacity within a payroll team.
* Strong technical payroll capability including manual calculation of long service leave, termination payments, superannuation and NZ Holidays Act calculations.
* Excellent attention to detail and ability to resolve complex payroll queries.
* Strong stakeholder communication and team collaboration skills.

It would be beneficial if you have experience working with the following systems:

* Micropay
* Humanforce
* HR3

Additional Details & Benefits:

* Hybrid working model – 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.
* During payroll week, team members typically work 4-5 days in the office to support payroll processing.
* Flexible start and finish times outside of payroll week (team coverage required).
* On-site parking available via internal booking app.
* Pet-friendly office environment.

To Apply:

If this sounds like your next opportunity or you would like to hear more, please apply now and submit your resume.

Our client is seeking an experienced Project Manager with strong Microsoft Dynamics (CRM) implementation experience to lead end-to-end delivery of Dynamics projects. This role requires someone who can independently manage the full project lifecycle-from planning and stakeholder engagement through to implementation, go-live, and post-implementation support.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on delivery leader with a collaborative mindset, able to work closely with business and technology teams, manage vendors, and drive outcomes in a pragmatic and flexible way.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Microsoft Dynamics implementation projects, ensuring successful outcomes aligned to business objectives.

• Manage the full project lifecycle, including planning, requirements, solution design, build, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support.

• Work closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and implementation partners to ensure project alignment and delivery success.

• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, budgets, and risk management frameworks.

• Facilitate workshops to gather business requirements and translate them into deliverable project outcomes.

• Manage project governance, reporting, and stakeholder communication across business and technical teams.

• Identify and manage risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring proactive mitigation strategies.

• Coordinate testing phases including SIT, UAT, and production deployment.

• Drive adoption and support change management activities where required.

• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.

Requirements

• Proven experience delivering Microsoft Dynamics implementations (CRM) in Financial Services sector.

• Demonstrated ability to manage projects end-to-end independently.

• Strong experience working across business and technical teams in complex environments.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

• Experience managing vendors, delivery partners, and cross-functional teams.

• Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies (Agile, Hybrid, Waterfall).

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.

• No ego and highly collaborative – able to work effectively across teams and roles, able to wear multiple hats.

• Flexible mindset with the ability to adapt to changing project needs and priorities.

• Hands-on and pragmatic, willing to step in where needed to drive delivery.

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.

• Positive attitude with a focus on team success and business outcomes.

If you think you have the above skills and experiences, click the ‘Apply’ button or send your resume to alex.nguyen@talentinternational.com

Please Notes: Visa sponsorship is not available. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for this role.

Talent International, a leading Australian recruitment firm, have been engaged by our long standing client, a leading music organisation. We are seeking an IT Process Engineer to join their global technology team.

Role Title: IT Process Engineer

Opportunity: Permanent Career Opportunity

Location + WFH Flexibility: Sydney CBD (1 day work from home per week + additional flexibility)

Salary: $128,800 inclusive of super + 10% performance bonus

Client Industry: Entertainment / Media

Role Details:

* Design, analyse and optimise IT operational processes to improve efficiency, reliability and service delivery across the enterprise

* Analyse operational data and performance metrics to identify inefficiencies, trends and opportunities for improvement

* Work closely with infrastructure, engineering, security and operations teams to implement process improvements across technology services

* Support ITSM processes including incident, problem and service operations management

* Develop documentation including process maps, SOPs and operational runbooks

* Drive continuous improvement initiatives using methodologies such as ITIL, Agile, DevOps and Lean

Required Skills and Experiences:

* Experience in IT process engineering, service transformation or IT process improvement roles within enterprise environments

* Strong understanding of ITSM / ITIL frameworks and operational service processes

* Experience analysing operational data and identifying opportunities for improvement

* Exposure to ITSM platforms such as ServiceNow or Jira Service Management

* Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams

* Experience working in large enterprise or global technology environments

Additional Details & Benefits:

* Work within a global technology environment collaborating with teams across multiple regions

* Work from home one day per week, with additional flexibility available

* Opportunity to drive meaningful operational improvements within a large enterprise technology organisation

* Competitive salary package including 10% performance bonus

To Apply:

If this sounds like your next opportunity or you would like to hear more, please apply now and submit your resume.