Personnel and payroll accountant with Employee Lifecycle

In this course, you will gain practical knowledge about the central tasks of human resources management - from personnel planning, selection and development to remuneration and controlling. It also includes the basics of tax and social security law as well as payroll accounting with DATEV. You will also gain initial practical experience with SAP® HCM to make your HR tasks more efficient. Finally, you will learn in detail how you can use artificial intelligence (AI) in human resources management.
  • Certificates: Certificate "Personnel and payroll accountant"
    Employee Lifecycle" certificate
  • Additional Certificates: Certificate "Fundamentals of Human Resources Management"
    DATEV certificate "DATEV user wage and salary"
    SAP Training Partner Certificate
  • Examination: Praxisbezogene Projektarbeiten mit Abschlusspräsentationen
    DATEV-Anwender Lohn und Gehalt
  • Teaching Times: Full-time
    Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m.)
  • Language of Instruction: German
  • Duration: 16 Weeks

Fundamentals of human resources management

Fundamentals of human resources management (approx. 2 days)

Objectives and tasks of operational human resources management

Organization and framework conditions of human resources management

Personnel administration

Personnel information and statistics

Diversity management


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

and possible applications in the professional environment


Personnel administration (approx. 5 days)

Tasks and process structures

Instruments of personnel administration

Information systems

Fundamentals of labor law

Employment contracts

Data protection


Personnel planning/recruitment (approx. 5 days)

Objectives, importance and tasks of personnel planning

Processes and components of personnel planning

Applicant management and requirement profiles

Evaluation of applicant documents

Special features of SMEs

Job interviews/selection process

Hiring new employees


Personnel development (approx. 3 days)

Basic questions of personnel development

Instruments of promotion

Staff appraisal

Development stages and target measurements

Company training and further training

Differentiation between further training and forms of training


Personnel remuneration (approx. 3 days)

Personnel costs

Basics of cost and activity accounting

Forms of remuneration

Basics of payroll accounting

Gross/net wage calculation

Income tax and social security regulations

Payroll accounting


Project work (approx. 2 days)

To consolidate the content learned

Presentation of the project results

Wages and salaries with DATEV

Legal framework for payroll accounting (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)

Introduction to labor law

Social security law: obligation to pay social security contributions, pay-as-you-go obligation, reporting system, obligation to keep records

Wage tax law: tax deduction features, tax recording and reporting obligations

Meaning of wage types


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

and possible applications in the professional environment


Creation of employees and clients in DATEV (full-time approx. 5 days/part-time approx. 10 days)

Client creation in DATEV

Save and import clients

Recording social security and tax law specifics, other client master data

Creation of different employee types

Dealing with the digital personnel file

Special features (e.g. trainees, part-time employees, managing directors, etc.)

Social security key

Leavers


Payments and deductions in DATEV (full-time approx. 4 days/part-time approx. 8 days)

Salary and time wage

Special wage types: piecework and premium wages

Surcharges

Staff discounts

One-off payments (e.g. Christmas and vacation bonuses)

Travel allowances

Continued payment of wages in the event of illness

Payment of wages (payment of wages on public holidays)

Garnishment

Benefits in kind and non-cash benefits

Company car

Travel expenses and expense reimbursements Movement data

Maternity protection and maternity pay

Company pension scheme


Payroll accounting and monthly closing with DATEV (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)

Calendar entry

Entry and exit management

Payroll accounting and monthly closing

Reporting and certification

Payroll tax registration

Sending data

Repeat and recalculations

Transfer of payroll postings to financial accounting

Year-end closing work


Digital cooperation between tax consultants and companies (full-time approx. 2 days/part-time approx. 4 days)


Project work, certification preparation (via the DATEV Students online platform) and certification exam "DATEV User Wages and Salaries" (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)

SAP User Human Resources Management (HCM)

Introduction, technical briefing and registration SAP Learning Hub (approx. 1 day)


S4H00 - SAP S/4HANA Overview (approx. 4 days)

Overview of SAP S/4HANA

Navigation, SAP Fiori, SAP Business Client, SAP Logon

System-wide concepts with organizational units, master data and transactions

Overview of financial accounting and logistics modules, mapping of the respective processes in SAP

Reporting, system structure and migration

SAP service offerings


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies and possible applications in the professional environment


S4HR05 - Business processes in SAP ERP HCM on S/4HANA (approx. 7 days)

Start SAP Human Capital Management for SAP S/4HANA

Maintaining personnel master data

Use of structures in HCM

Executing processes in personnel administration

Applying time management

Introduction to payroll accounting

Carrying out personnel development activities

Understanding shared services and Fiori

Using the analysis functions of SAP HCM

Using additional HCM components

Getting to know SAP SuccessFactors


S4HR11 - Business processes in HCM Payroll for S/4HANA (approx. 4 days)

Describe the basics of payroll accounting

Working with employee master data for payroll and personnel actions

Explore the payroll process

Get to know payroll scenarios

Troubleshooting and resolving typical errors in payroll accounting

Describing follow-up activities

Finding additional resources


Project work/case study (approx. 4 days)

Employee Lifecycle

Basics of the Employee Lifecycle (approx. 1 day)

Understanding the employee lifecycle

Importance of AI in the HR sector

Terms, opportunities and challenges

Change management for AI implementation

Predictive analytics, people analytics


Legal basics (approx. 1 day)

Data protection (DSGVO), bias avoidance

AI regulation, AI Act, AI guideline

Ethics, compliance risks


Personnel planning and analysis (approx. 3 days)

Forecasts for personnel requirements

Data-driven HR

Analysis of fluctuation

Workforce planning


AI in recruiting (approx. 6 days)

Landing pages, search engine optimization and social media in recruiting

Active sourcing with AI

AI-supported analysis of CVs

Evaluation portals and automated pre-selection

Chatbots

Video interviews


AI in personnel development (approx. 6 days)

Automated onboarding processes

Skill gap analyses

Further training offers

Measuring employee satisfaction

Employee retention


Project work (approx. 3 days)

To deepen the content learned

Presentation of the project results



Changes are possible. The course content is updated regularly.

You are familiar with the core areas of human resources management and can apply these in a practice-oriented manner. You will also have knowledge of the basic processes of payroll accounting, payroll accounting and the DATEV software. You will also be able to apply HR processes in the SAP system.

You will also learn how to use artificial intelligence (AI) in HR work: from recruiting, interviews and onboarding to personnel development.

The course is aimed at all persons who wish to acquire or refresh their knowledge of human resources management in order to subsequently work in the field as a user or administrator.

Employees with a sound basic knowledge of human resources are indispensable in today's working world and are in demand in companies of all sizes across all industries.

Your additional knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) in the central areas of HR will open up a wide range of career opportunities in HR and make you an important pillar for successful and future-oriented HR work.

Didactic concept

Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).

You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.

 

Virtual classroom alfaview®

Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face lessons via video technology.

 

The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).

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0800 3456-500 Mon. - Fri. from 8 am to 5 pm
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We will gladly advise you free of charge. 0800 3456-500 Mon. - Fri. from 8 am to 5 pm free of charge from all German networks.