Methodology before mathematics
Every assumption — lookback periods, interpretation calls, data treatments — is agreed with you and put in writing before a single calculation runs. Nothing gets discovered after the fact.
About
A specialist practice, deliberately narrow.
Payroll remediation for Australian employers with complicated agreements and long histories. Not a service line inside a bigger firm — the whole practice.
Why we exist
Remediation kept being handed to people who'd never run one.
The large firms sell you a partner and deliver a graduate. The software vendors sell you a platform and call the configuration your problem. Neither model holds up against fourteen agreements, six states and eight years of history.
So the practice is built the other way round. Senior people do the work. The methodology is agreed in writing before anyone opens a file. And what gets built is shaped around your agreements and your systems rather than lifted from a template.
The trade-off is fewer engagements at once. That's deliberate — it's what keeps the pace and the quality where they need to be.
How we work
Four things we don't move on.
Your data stays yours
Everything is built and run inside your environment. No employee data uploaded, hosted or processed on external platforms. In health and aged care that isn't negotiable, so we made it standard everywhere.
Built to be examined
Every engagement is documented as though the Fair Work Ombudsman will read it — because one day, on some engagement, they might. Methodology papers, assumption registers, calculations that hold up under scrutiny.
Independent by structure
We don't sell payroll software, resell platforms or take referral fees. When we recommend a fix, it's because it's the right fix — there's nothing else in it for us.
Where we work
Sectors where the agreements get complicated.
Multiple agreements, shift and penalty structures, long service leave across state lines, and workforces big enough that small errors compound fast.
Health & aged care
Multi-agreement nursing and support workforces, 24/7 rostering, and high sensitivity around employee data.
Hospitality & retail
High casual populations, award-driven penalties, and turnover that makes former-employee payments a project in itself.
Resources
Site agreements, FIFO rosters, allowances and annualised arrangements that rarely get reconciled.
Higher education
Academic and professional agreements running side by side, sessional staff, and long lookback periods.
Transport & logistics
Interstate operations, driver hours, and entitlements that shift depending on which jurisdiction applies.
Any multi-state employer
Where one person's history crosses state lines and several agreements over time.
Straight talk
What we're not.
Being clear about the edges is how you know what's inside them is solid.
- Not software sellers. No platforms, no licences, no referral fees.
- Not a leverage model. Nobody is learning on your engagement.
- Not your lawyers. We work with your legal advisers, not around them. Where a call is legal rather than methodological, we say so.
- Not a replacement for your team. We carry the load; they keep the knowledge and the function.
Start here
Worth a conversation?
Tell us what you're seeing. We'll be straight with you about whether it warrants a formal engagement at all.