Celery partners with Yellow Canary to expand into the Australian market

Underpayments continue to dominate media headlines, highlighting costly failures across industries. At the same time, a recent legal decision has narrowed the scope for set-off, making it clear that payroll errors cannot simply be corrected after payday.

Yellow Canary, Australia’s number one provider of post-payroll compliance audits, has entered an exclusive partnership with Celery, the worldwide provider and leader of AI-driven pre-payroll review technology, trusted by more than 5,000 companies across the globe. Through this partnership, Yellow Canary becomes Celery’s sole Australian partner, bringing world-class pre-payroll review capability to local employers and strengthening its mission to simplify Australia’s complex pay environment.

What this means for Australian organisations

Australia’s payroll landscape is uniquely complex, shaped by requirements for diverse employee scenarios that are difficult to interpret and apply in practice. Mistakes often occur upstream, in rostering, classification, or allowances. By the time data reaches the payroll system, errors are already embedded.  

With Celery’s AI-driven pre-payroll review technology, employers gain a proactive option to manage payroll risk. Drawing on insights from Yellow Canary’s 110+ large-scale payroll audits, the partnership delivers a solution purpose-built for Australia’s complex pay landscape. It introduces an earlier, lower-cost layer of verification, allowing employers to detect and resolve potential pay errors against policies and thresholds before employees are paid.

“We’re super excited about this collaboration and our entrance to the Australian market through Yellow Canary. Everywhere is complex, every place has its own unique rules, but at the end of the day it’s the same payroll complexity,” says Yuval Brot, Chief Executive Officer at Celery.

The partnership will begin with the development and localisation of Celery’s pre-payroll review technology for Australian employers.

“We’re tailoring this global technology to Australia’s complex pay landscape and giving organisations the confidence to fix payroll issues before employees are paid,” adds Marcus Zeltzer, Co-founder and Managing Director at Yellow Canary.

To learn more about the Pre-Payroll Review Solution, submit your interest here.