Eric Liaw - Founder. Payroll Compliance & Remediation Specialist (20+ years)

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What We Do

Payroll Done Right

No Overpayments | No Underpayments | No Surprises

Specialist payroll compliance and remediation for small to mid-sized Australian employers, helping you navigate complex Awards & Enterprise Agreements to ensure payroll compliance, prevent payroll errors, fix underpayments — delivering accurate, defensible, and regulator-ready pay outcomes that ensure employees are paid correctly.

Our approach is right-sized for SMEs, practical, and cost-effective.

Value Proposition

Eric Liaw has 20+ years’ experience across payroll operations, Award/EA interpretation, payroll systems configuration, compliance, governance, remediation, and helps employers:

  • Eliminate payroll risk early before it becomes costly

  • Fix wage underpayments with clear, defensible calculations

  • Interpret Awards/EAs correctly to ensure payroll compliance, so your employees are paid correctly

  • Strengthen payroll controls without adding administrative burden

  • Protect owners, executives, and boards from wage-theft penalties and Fair Work action

His work is delivered through simple, structured frameworks — evidence-based, regulator-aligned, and right-sized for organisations small payroll teams. They are built on PMI project governance (PMP® Certified).

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Expertise

Eric Liaw - Founder & Principal Consultant

  • 20+ years’ payroll expertise - operations, compliance, remediation & Award/EA interpretation and payroll systems

  • Interpreted & operationalised 70+ Awards & EAs

  • Payroll remediation including 1,200+ employees over multi-years

  • Multi-systems configuration knowledge (ADP, Oracle, UKG, iChris)

  • Specialist bridging legal intent, HR policy and payroll system gaps

  • Proprietary Frameworks & Tools

  • Cross-industry experience

  • PMP® certification - governance and structured delivery discipline

  • Recognised thought leader (LinkedIn and Beroe, global procurement intelligence platform)

Featured on Beroe, the leading global procurement intelligence platform.

Featured on Beroe, the leading global procurement intelligence platform.

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Our Services

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  • Our Payroll Compliance Risk Audit provides a structured diagnostic review to surface payroll issues early, before they escalate into wage underpayments, Fair Work scrutiny, or reputational damage.

    Engagements can be designed as:

    • Targeted sample testing for rapid insights

    • Full-population analysis for organisations needing deeper assurance

  • Our Award & Enterprise Agreement Payroll Compliance service helps employers get payroll right at the source.

    Leveraging industrial relations and payroll expertise, we independently and methodically interpret every clause in your Award and Enterprise Agreements. This process culminates in a clear, auditable, and system-ready Pay Rule Matrix that translates directly into accurate configuration across all payroll and workforce management systems.

    Our methodology bridges the gap between:
    Legal obligations → Pay logic → System configuration → Accurate pay outcomes

  • Our Payroll Remediation provides a structured end-to-end approach to identifying, quantifying, and rectifying wage non-compliance. Using a proven methodology aligned with FWO expectations, we rebuild entitlements, validate calculations, and ensure outcomes are transparent, traceable, and explainable.

    Engagements can be designed as full-scale programs or targeted issue-specific reviews.

  • Our Payroll Compliance & Governance Review diagnoses the health of your payroll environment across people, processes, technology, and compliance. It identifies governance gaps, control weaknesses, and process risks that can lead to payroll inaccuracies or wage non-compliance.

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Who We Help

Logistics & Transport

Engineering & Construction

Professional Services

Aviation

Our Proprietary Frameworks

Payroll Compliance Risk Audit

Why Employers Choose Us

20+ years Award, Enterprise Agreement Interpretation & Systems Expertise

Designed for Complex Environments

Regulator-Aligned Methodology

Future-Ready Governance

Independent & Trusted Specialist bridging Legal, Systems Payroll & HR

Our Case Studies

Employment Lawyers

Partners

Industrial & Employment Relations

Payroll Technology

Payroll Audit Consultants

Technology - ERP

Expertise

Eric specialises in helping small to mid-sized employers navigate complex Awards and EAs to ensure payroll compliance, prevent payroll errors, and fix underpayments — delivering accurate, defensible, and regulator-ready pay outcomes that ensure employees are paid correctly.

With 20+ years of deep payroll expertise, Eric brings a rare combination of industrial instrument interpretation, systems configuration, governance, and remediation leadership.

His approach is right-sized for SMEs, practical, cost-effective, and grounded in the realities of payroll operations.

He designed and used structured, proprietary, evidence-based frameworks aligned with regulator expectations and built on PMI project governance (PMP® Certified).

Key Strengths

  • Deep expertise in Awards/EAs interpretations and applications

  • Strong capability in bridging legal intent, HR policy, and payroll system gaps

  • Demonstrated payroll remediation leadership

  • Proven system configuration understanding (ADP, Oracle, UKG, iChris)

  • Strong technical and operational payroll background

  • PMP® certification - governance and structured delivery discipline

  • Recognised thought leader (Beroe, LinkedIn)

Eric Liaw - Founder. Payroll Compliance & Remediation Specialist (20+ years)

    1. Senior Payroll Remediation Consultant - ASX-listed Company

    2. Payroll Compliance & Governance Manager – Toll Group

    3. Senior Manager Payroll Advisory – McGrathNicol

    4. EA Interpretation, Compliance & Build Lead – Downer Group

    5. Payroll Accounting & Finance Manager – Qantas Group

    6. Payroll & System Manager – QantasLink

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Contact details:

Email: eric.liaw@axispayrollcompliance.com.au

Mobile: 0412 981 622