Andreia Lemos

Executive summary

Andreia is a Director in the Global Expatriate & Employment Taxes team with BDO in Brisbane. She is known for her technical excellence, practical understanding of award and enterprise agreement, and her calm leadership across complex, high‑stakes payroll compliance matters, combining strategic thinking with hands‑on delivery to resolve issues efficiently and transparently.

Andreia helps clients diagnose and remediate end‑to‑end payroll non‑compliance, delivering large‑scale remediation programs. Her expertise includes award and enterprise agreement rule design, detailed reconstruction of employee pay entitlements, and the development of structured employee communication programs. She also leads program management across all remediation streams, ensuring findings are defensible, methodologies are transparent, and payroll governance is strengthened for the long term.

Andreia has significant experience leading major payroll reviews for ASX‑listed organisations and navigating complex Fair Work obligations. She has played a pivotal role in enforceable undertakings, positioning BDO as a trusted adviser in one of Australia’s most regulated and sensitive compliance environments.

Andreia brings more than ten years of specialised experience in payroll compliance, remediation, and industrial instrument understanding. 

Expertise

• Modern award and enterprise agreement compliance
• Payroll compliance review and remediation programs
• Fair Work Act obligations and Fair Work Ombudsman investigations including enforceable undertakings
• Annual leave and long service leave reconciliations
• Project management across all remediation streams
• Data analytics and visualisation to diagnose issues and validate outcomes
• Post‑remediation controls uplift to strengthen long‑term payroll accuracy and risk management

Experience

• National NFP sector - led high‑profile enforceable undertakings
• ASX‑listed corporate group - delivered a large‑scale, multi‑year payroll remediation program, involving complex awards, wage code redesign and historical back‑payment modelling across thousands of employees
• Public sector agency - managed a high‑visibility, multi‑workstream payroll compliance review, covering pay‑against‑award testing and long service leave assessments under significant governance and public‑interest scrutiny
• National community services provider - conducted a high‑stakes workforce remediation under SCHADS‑related instruments, including root‑cause analysis and governance uplift following sector‑wide media attention on underpayments
• Retail and luxury sector - led a major reconciliation engagement across multiple locations, assessing penalties, overtime and roster patterns in a context of industry‑wide media scrutiny on wage compliance
• Infrastructure and utilities sector - delivered deep‑dive payroll reviews involving complex system configuration testing and long service leave recalculations, supporting executive‑level decision‑making
• Construction and engineering sector - completed payroll due diligence reviews focused on inherited industrial liabilities and exposure quantification, informing high‑value commercial transactions
• Education and health sectors - provided post‑remediation validation and controls uplift for organisations operating in environments where compliance risks carry significant reputational sensitivity.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Endorsed Industrial Relations Long Service Leave Champion
• MBA International Business and Foreign Trade Management
• Bachelor of Science, Economic Sciences
• Provisional Member, CA ANZ
• Provisional Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)