Diploma of Payroll Services

Module 1

• BSBHRM527 Coordinate human resource functions and processes

• BSBTWK401 Build and maintain business relationships

• FNSINC411 Conduct work according to professional practices in the financial services industry

Module 2

• FNSPAY514 Interpret and apply knowledge of industrial regulations relevant to payroll

• FNSPAY515 Interpret and apply knowledge of taxation systems relevant to payroll

Module 3

• BSBHRM526 Manage payroll

• Cluster - FNSPAY511 Process salary packaging arrangements and additional allowances in payroll and FNSPAY512 Process superannuation payments in payroll

Module 4

• FNSPAY513 Process complex employee terminations in payroll

• FNSTPB412 Establish and maintain payroll systems
  (TBP code: MPA001 Payroll Administration)

• FNSTPB411 Complete business activity and instalment activity statements
  (TBP code: MAS001 Activity Statements)

You could work as a payroll officer or manager in a company’s finance team or independently as a practitioner serving small businesses. Related roles you could pursue include:

• Human resources officer

• Industrial relations assistant adviser

• Salary packaging adviser

• Small business employment manager

• Compliance officer

• Assistant financial controller

This qualification also meets the Tax Practitioners Board’s minimum education requirements for BAS agent registration.

Payroll professionals who want to formalise their expertise will find this diploma a strong fit, as will people moving into payroll from another area of accounting or administration. We developed it in consultation with the industry, tailoring the content to accounting technicians working in payroll departments. Independent practitioners also study it to gain a recognised qualification for work they already do. You don’t need any formal qualifications to enrol.

Across 11 nationally recognised units, you’ll learn to:

• Manage payroll and establish payroll systems

• Process salary packaging arrangements and additional allowances

• Process superannuation payments

• Handle complex employee terminations

• Complete business activity and instalment activity statements

• Coordinate human resource functions and processes

You’ll also learn to maintain business relationships and work according to professional practices in financial services.

Yes, you’ll work through course materials entirely online, following our 12-month study timetable or taking up to two years at your own pace. Your trainer will answer your questions by phone, Zoom or email between 9am and 5.30pm, Monday to Friday. You’ll book your three supervised assessments as Zoom sessions with our invigilators once you commence.

You’ll study the industrial regulations that apply to payroll, covering awards, entitlements and the obligations employers owe their staff. You’ll also learn the taxation systems relevant to payroll, including PAYG withholding and superannuation guarantee requirements. Two of your units meet Tax Practitioners Board requirements, so you’ll complete supervised assessments in activity statements and payroll systems.

Yes. You’ll process complex employee terminations, which involve calculating final entitlements and applying the correct tax treatment to each component. You’ll also process salary packaging arrangements, additional allowances and superannuation payments. Our payroll software and Xero training, included in your course fee, give you a chance to apply each process in the systems payroll teams use.

A diploma covers considerably more ground than a short course. Our BAS and Payroll skill set teaches two units in around six months, giving you the payroll systems and activity statement skills the Tax Practitioners Board requires. The Diploma of Payroll Services covers 11 units and students have two years to complete them, adding industrial regulations, taxation systems, salary packaging, terminations and human resource functions.

Yes, payroll work draws on the same principles you’ll already know from working with accounts, and this qualification adds the industrial relations and taxation knowledge specific to paying employees. Study with us and you’ll receive free student membership of both the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA) and the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB). You can also apply the qualification towards further study in accounting, human resources or business at university.