Josh Forrest
Director And Head Of Industrial Relations - KPMG ThinkPay
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Forrest is a director and Head of Industrial Relations at KPMG ThinkPay in Melbourne, combining legal rigour with data-driven workforce strategy to help organisations manage wage theft, payroll compliance and people risk. With a background as a senior lawyer at Australia Post and Baker McKenzie, he has experience negotiating large enterprise agreements, running high-stakes disputes and leading safety and compliance reform programs. He bridges practice and policy—translating complex industrial law into pragmatic, auditable solutions that scale across large workforces. A Monash LLB (Hons) and Copenhagen LLM graduate, he also brings hands-on operational experience from secondments such as delivering safety culture changes at Dreamworld. Despite a relatively concise career (3 years in his current pod-focused data/cloud consulting role), he combines elite legal pedigree with emerging data and cloud fluency to shape commercially grounded people-risk interventions.
3 years of coding experience
Lean Fundamentals Certificate, Lean Fundamentals Certificate at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddMaster of Laws - LLM, Master of Laws - LLM at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenVCE, VCE at Melbourne High SchoolBachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws - BA/LLB (Hons), Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws - BA/LLB (Hons) at Monash University
Github Skills (42)
vscode-plugin10
command-line-interface9
azure8
cli8
sqltools8
azure-cli8
javascript8
deno7
emacs-lisp7
oracle-database7
typescript7
emacs7
autodoc7
command-line7
vim7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JP-Ellis-KPMG/bicep-mode
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
An Emacs major mode for the Bicep Language
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
org-modeemacsbicepemacs-lspmajor-mode
JP-Ellis/dotfiles
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
My dotfile collection.
Contributions:41 commits, 16 pushes in 7 months
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