Employment Hero: audit-ready payroll for finance leaders
Cut payroll costs, eliminate audit risks and gain full visibility over your numbers.
Employment Hero helps finance leaders process payroll in hours, not days. At the same time, it reduces compliance risk and delivers real-time workforce insights to help you forecast with confidence.
Trusted by Australia’s leading finance teams
And here’s why
Cut payroll costs and get hours back
Payroll errors and manual spreadsheets can cost your team days to fix. With Employment Hero, timesheets flow straight into payroll, errors are automatically flagged and journal entries are posted directly to your accounting software. What used to take you days now takes hours.
Stay audit-ready without the stress
ATO and Fair Work compliance shouldn’t keep you up at night. Our platform includes 50+ pre-configured modern awards and automatically applies tax, super, overtime and penalty rates. Every change is captured in a digital audit trail, so when an auditor comes knocking, you’re ready.
Bring people and payroll data together
Stop working with disconnected systems that never quite match up. Employment Hero gives you one single source of truth for HR, payroll and compliance, all in real-time. Have confidence knowing headcount, liabilities and labour costs are always at your fingertips, so you can forecast easily and close faster every month.
Employment Hero Payroll in action
We’re leaders in Australian HR and payroll tech
How Employment Hero supports finance leaders
Reclaim your time by streamlining your people and payroll operations
Manual payroll is a time sink. Spreadsheets, reconciliations and fixing errors can take days every pay cycle. With Employment Hero, timesheets flow straight into payroll, journal entries sync with your accounting software (like Xero or QuickBooks) and pay runs are completed in hours.
Boost your compliance confidence
Navigating Fair Work, modern awards, Single Touch Payroll (STP) and superannuation rules can be confusing and complex. Not to mention the cost involved if you get it wrong. Employment Hero automates tax, overtime, penalty rates and leave calculations, while keeping your payroll audit-ready with a full digital trail.
Your single source of truth
Say goodbye to jumping between platforms and reconciling spreadsheets. Employment Hero brings HR, payroll and leave data into one single source of truth. Get access to real-time dashboards showing headcount, labour costs and liabilities, so you can report faster and forecast in real-time.
Tap into insightful workforce data to drive better decisions
As a finance leader, you need accurate numbers and data, not guesswork. With Employment Hero’s real-time dashboards, you can see headcount, labour costs, overtime and leave liabilities in one place. Spot cost blowouts early, forecast with ease and give leadership the workforce insights they need to make smarter decisions.
Our Employment Operating System is built to scale with you
Growth shouldn’t mean more admin. Employment Hero is built to handle 20 to 1,000 employees, across multiple entities and locations, without overwhelming your finance team. Whether you’re managing remote-first teams, navigating hybrid work or expanding into new markets, our platform scales with you, helping keep payroll accurate and efficient no matter how complex things get.
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Frequently asked questions
Employment Hero gives Finance leaders the tools to control costs, manage compliance and work smarter. Our all-in-one Employment Operating System brings HR, payroll and data together, so you have one reliable source of truth.
With automated award interpretation and digital audit trails, you can reduce risk and boost your compliance confidence. Plus, payroll cycles can be completed in hours instead of days, freeing up finance teams to focus on more strategic work.
Absolutely. Many of our customers are finance leaders juggling it all. Think of our Employment Operating System like an extra set of hands who can help automate repetitive admin, give insights to guide strategy and make it easier to scale as your business grows.
We’re more than just software. We offer the world’s first Employment Operating System, purpose-built for Aussie businesses. With payroll and compliance features, engagement tools, learning and onboarding, we give finance teams one connected system to do it all. No more disconnected tools, messy spreadsheets or whiteboard rosters.
Yes. Employment Hero integrates with a range of existing payroll, accounting and rostering tools. Whether you need full HR, recruitment and payroll in one place or just want to streamline onboarding and engagement, you can tailor the setup to your needs. Learn more about our integrations here.
