
HCM consulting for Australian organisations
Your HR platform touches every employee, every pay run, every compliance obligation. We help organisations implement and optimise human capital management systems that work.
What is HCM?
Human Capital Management (HCM) covers the systems that manage your workforce. Core HR, payroll, recruiting, onboarding, learning, performance and workforce planning. It’s where employee data lives and where HR processes run.
For most organisations, HCM is how you manage your most important asset.
Your most important asset, managed properly.

Why it matters
Your HCM platform affects everyone. When it works, managers have visibility, payroll runs clean, and HR can focus on strategy. When it doesn’t, you’re stuck with workarounds, manual reconciliations and compliance risk.
Good HCM gives people the information and tools they need. Poor HCM creates frustration and administrative overhead.
Why it’s hard
HCM touches sensitive data and complex processes:
- Award interpretation and payroll compliance
- Leave rules that vary by role, tenure and employment type
- Workforce structures that don’t fit standard templates
- Integration with finance, rostering and operational systems
- Change management for every employee
Success requires understanding both the technology and your workforce reality.
HCM consulting and implementation
Strategy, implementation and ongoing support for workforce management systems.

Strategy and Roadmap
Define your HCM direction. Product evaluation, module priorities and integration requirements. Independent advice based on your workforce complexity.

Implementation
New HCM deployments configured for your workforce. Core HR, payroll, talent modules designed for how your people actually work.

Optimisation
Already on modern HCM but not getting the value? We assess what’s working, fix what isn’t, and unlock modules you’re paying for.

Integration
Connect HCM to finance, rostering, learning and operational systems. Properly designed, not point-to-point workarounds.

Support
Ongoing application management. Incidents, enhancements and release management from a team that knows your configuration.
Our HCM expertise
Deep SAP SuccessFactors experience since 2011.
SAP SuccessFactors
Full suite implementation including Employee Central, Payroll, Recruiting, Learning, Performance
Employee Central Payroll
Australian payroll with award interpretation and compliance
Talent Modules
Recruiting, Onboarding, Learning, Performance, Compensation, Succession
We specialise in SAP SuccessFactors. We’ve been implementing it since 2011.
What you get from working with us
Payroll that runs clean: Fewer manual fixes, fewer queries, fewer compliance risks
Visibility for managers: Real org structures, accurate headcount, leave balances that make sense
HR freed from admin: Self-service that works, so HR can focus on strategy
Compliance you can defend: Award rules and leave accruals built in, not bolted on
A system that fits: Configuration that reflects your workforce, not a template

Why Discovery for HCM
HCM has been our core since 2011. We started as an HCM consultancy. It’s where we’ve built the deepest expertise over more than a decade.
Complex workforce experience
Education, government, mining, utilities. Industries where standard templates break. We’ve implemented HCM for multi-position staff, casual pools, term-time employment and 24/7 rosters.
Australian payroll expertise
Awards, superannuation, leave, STP. We understand Australian payroll complexity.
Our own extensions
Where SuccessFactors has gaps, we’ve built production-ready BTP extensions for leave, rostering and casual management.
SAP Gold Partner
Certified across SuccessFactors modules and Employee Central Payroll. Melbourne HQ, teams in Sydney and Brisbane. We understand local compliance and workforce culture.
How we work
A structured approach for HCM projects.
1
Discover
Understand your workforce, pain points and priorities
2
Plan
Define scope, roadmap and investment case
3
Design
Configure HCM for your workforce reality
4
Build
Implement with proper testing and validation
5
Deploy
Go-live with hypercare and stabilisation
6
Run
Ongoing support and continuous improvement
Industries we support
Education
Government
Construction
Mining
Manufacturing
Utilities
Companies we work with






Ready to talk HCM?
Whether you’re evaluating HR platforms, implementing new modules, or trying to fix a deployment that didn’t land, we can help.