Payroll teams
Develop a clearer understanding of governance foundations, risk and the responsibilities that sit around the payroll cycle.
Explore workshop themesWorkshops & team capability
Payroll training. Stronger decisions.
Practical payroll compliance and governance workshops for Australian HR, Finance and payroll teams.
Learn to recognise payroll risks, clarify responsibilities and turn compliance concerns into practical actions. Workshops connect payroll knowledge with the decisions your team makes every day.
Discuss in-house payroll training or an open-cohort workshop, shaped around your audience and priorities.
Built around your people
Payroll is a team responsibility.
Build capability together.
Bring payroll, HR and Finance into the same conversation, with learning shaped around the decisions each team makes.
HR & Finance leaders
Build payroll compliance literacy and understand where your decisions, controls and hand-offs affect payroll outcomes.
Explore workshop themesSenior payroll leaders
Strengthen the way you communicate payroll risk, prepare board papers and brief executive decision-makers.
Explore workshop themesFind your focus
Different responsibilities.
A shared understanding.
Select a workshop theme to explore the learning focus and an example of what your team could work on.
Workshop 01 / 06
Payroll compliance and governance for HR and Finance
For leaders and managers with payroll accountability. Explore how workforce decisions, payroll hand-offs and approval processes affect pay outcomes. Work through responsibilities, risk visibility and escalation using a practical scenario. A proposed exercise is a responsibilities map and a 30-day action plan for your team.
Example workshop outputA responsibilities map and 30-day action plan
Ownership · Hand-offs · Escalation
Discuss this workshopWorkshop 02 / 06
Payroll risk and controls
For payroll managers, HR operations and Finance teams. Identify risks across the payroll cycle, distinguish a control from an informal check, and discuss what evidence shows a control is working. A proposed exercise is a prioritised risk register with control owners, review points and escalation routes. More detailed work can be scoped across multiple sessions.
Example workshop outputA prioritised risk register with clear control owners
Risk visibility · Controls · Evidence
Discuss this workshopWorkshop 03 / 06
Understanding and preventing payroll underpayments
For teams responsible for payroll data, policies, processes and systems. Use a fictional underpayment scenario to investigate the underlying driver, identify who needs to act and decide how to check that the issue has been resolved. A proposed exercise is a root-cause worksheet and a prevention action plan.
Example workshop outputA root-cause worksheet and prevention action plan
Data · Policies · Processes · Systems
Discuss this workshopWorkshop 04 / 06
Remediation results and validation
For remediation leads, payroll specialists and Finance reviewers. Discuss data completeness, unexplained variances, validation responsibilities and the evidence needed before approval. A tailored session can explore previously remediated periods and prior-payment reconciliation. Example exercises include a validation approach and an exception log, with scope agreed around participants' experience.
Example workshop outputA validation approach and exception log
Completeness · Variances · Approval
Discuss this workshopWorkshop 05 / 06
Payroll governance during system change
For project sponsors, payroll owners and implementation teams. Explore decision ownership, testing responsibilities, issue escalation and readiness evidence. A proposed exercise is a set of governance checkpoints for your project, linked to the people accountable for each decision.
Example workshop outputGovernance checkpoints for your project
Testing · Ownership · Readiness
Discuss this workshopWorkshop 06 / 06
Payroll leadership and executive communication
For senior payroll leaders and executive sponsors. Practise explaining payroll risk, separating unresolved issues from accepted risks, and making the decision required clear. A proposed exercise is a concise risk briefing or board-paper outline.
Example workshop outputA concise risk briefing or board-paper outline
Risk reporting · Decisions · Communication
Discuss this workshopWorkshop themes and outputs are starting points. Your proposal confirms the audience, depth, exercises, materials and duration.
From understanding to action
What your team can learn to do
Recognise and investigate risk
Trace a payroll concern through data, policies, processes and systems, and identify the evidence needed to understand it.
Clarify accountability
Identify who owns a decision, who checks the outcome and when an issue needs to be escalated across HR, Finance and payroll.
Turn findings into action
Prioritise improvements, assign owners and communicate the next steps clearly to the people who need to act.
Inside the workshop / Illustrative scenario
The same payroll error.
Four places to look.
A recurring allowance is missing from some employees’ pay. Correcting the payment is one step. Understanding why it happened helps your team prevent a repeat.
Where would you start investigating?
01
Investigate the policy
Does the policy reflect the applicable pay requirements?
Identify who reviews the policy, how changes are approved and how those decisions reach payroll.
Discuss the evidence. Agree the owner. Check the outcome.
Tools for the conversation
Put the learning
to work.
Exercises can use fictional or appropriately anonymised scenarios. Materials and any follow-up support are agreed in your proposal.
Make responsibilities visible
Explore a responsibilities matrix that connects a decision to its owner, reviewer and escalation route.
Work through the evidence
Use a scenario, root-cause worksheet or validation checklist to practise asking better questions.
Plan what happens next
Bring learning together in a practical action plan with priorities and accountable owners.
A format that fits
Delivery and duration shaped around your team
Discuss an in-house workshop, a virtual session or delivery across more than one session. Half-day and full-day formats provide starting points; a focused leadership briefing may need a different scope from a hands-on risk or validation workshop.
We confirm teaching time, breaks, group size, prerequisites and any preparation in your proposal. Tell us where participants are based, including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or the Gold Coast, so we can discuss suitable delivery arrangements.
Pricing depends on the audience, preparation, scope and delivery arrangements. Your proposal will set out the agreed inclusions, materials and any follow-up support.
In-house
A shared learning experience shaped around your workforce and team.
Virtual
Discuss delivery for colleagues working across different locations.
Across sessions
Make room for practical work, reflection and a focused follow-up.
Your next steps
A clear starting point for your workshop
Discuss the audience
Tell us who will attend, the payroll challenges they face and what you want them to understand or do differently.
Agree the focus
Discuss the topics, format and workforce context so the proposed workshop matches the needs of the group.
Confirm the engagement
Confirm the learning outcomes, exercises, materials, duration, delivery arrangements and pricing before proceeding.
Learn from practical payroll governance experience
Rebecca Wade brings experience in payroll governance, remediation programme management and helping organisations act on compliance findings. Her work includes understanding underpayment drivers, planning validation, coordinating stakeholders and strengthening the processes around payroll.
That experience informs workshops that connect risk awareness with the decisions, evidence and responsibilities teams encounter at work.
Build your team’s next chapter
Tell us what your team needs to understand
Share your audience, approximate team size and the payroll challenges you want to address. We will discuss the most appropriate training focus with you.
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