Your firm runs on people. We help you manage them
Fast-moving businesses need people operations to match. Employment Hero keeps your people operations just as sharp, with compliant payroll, AI-powered hiring and the HR infrastructure to scale globally.
What’s holding your people-strategy back?
PAIN POINT #
Hiring top talent across borders means massive overhead
Fast-growing finance businesses increasingly need to hire in multiple markets to access the right skills. But setting up legal entities, navigating local employment law and managing international payroll from scratch is slow, expensive and high-risk.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
HeroForce acts as your Employer of Record, letting you hire in new markets within weeks, not months.
PAIN POINT #
Compliance in a heavily scrutinised sector
Financial services businesses face heightened scrutiny from regulators, especially around employment records, privacy obligations and remuneration compliance. Manual processes create gaps.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Employment Hero maintains complete, audit-ready employment records with access controls, full audit trails and SOC 2 certified data security.
PAIN POINT #
Attracting and retaining specialist talent
Competing for analysts, credit specialists, advisers and technology talent in financial services is intensely competitive. Without a compelling employee experience and benefits offering, you lose candidates to larger institutions before the offer stage.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Give your team access to an enterprise-grade benefits platform, including financial wellbeing tools, cashback at major retailers and health discounts, at a cost that works for a growing business.
Trapped in manual workflows? There’s a better way
Global hiring with HeroForce
Hire in new markets without setting up a legal entity. HeroForce handles employment contracts, compliance, payroll and onboarding in each country, you stay in control of the day-to-day work while Employment Hero handles the legal employment infrastructure.
Automated payroll and compliance workflows
From salary packaging to complex bonus structures and commission tracking, Employment Hero handles payroll accurately across your entire team. Automated workflows reduce manual reconciliation and give finance leadership real-time visibility into people costs.
AI Recruitment Agent
Score, screen and shortlist candidates automatically before a human reviewer sees a single CV. When you need to move fast on critical hires, a head of sales, a credit analyst, a risk officer, the AI Recruitment Agent compresses a week-long screening process into minutes.
Performance and OKR management
Connect individual performance to business goals. Set OKRs across the business, track progress in real time and link performance reviews to compensation decisions, all within a single platform that your team actually uses.
How one fintech scaled global hiring without the setup cost
Valiant Finance
Financial Services | Growing team | Australia and international
THE CHALLENGE
Valiant Finance needed to test international markets quickly, specifically the US and New Zealand, without the time or expense of establishing legal entities from scratch. They looked at several Employer of Record providers, including global platforms, but found most were focused on the sale rather than the relationship. They needed a partner.
“We spoke to Deel, Rippling and others. Deel were quite sales heavy, it was always ‘This is why we’re the best,’ instead of ‘This is what we can do for you.’ With Employment Hero, it didn’t feel like we were just another number. They held our hand every step of the way.”
— Josh, Valiant Finance
OUTCOMES
Two international hires completed within three weeks
Full compliance documentation managed through the platform
Reduced international hiring risk without entity setup overhead
Staying compliant in financial services
Financial services businesses face elevated obligations around employment records, privacy and remuneration. Employment Hero provides the infrastructure to meet these obligations without building manual compliance processes from scratch.
Award coverage
Award and classification coverage
Finance sector employees may be covered by the Banking, Finance and Insurance Award 2020 or be award-free professionals under the NES. Employment Hero applies the right rules for each employee automatically, including entitlements, notice periods and overtime obligations.
Super reform
Payday super from 1 July 2026
Super will need to be paid on every payday, not quarterly. Employment Hero’s payroll engine is being updated to calculate and remit super contributions on each pay run, including for commission and variable pay components.
Privacy Act 1988
Employee records compliance
Financial services firms face heightened scrutiny over how employee data is stored and accessed. Employment Hero is SOC 2 certified, stores all data on Australian servers and provides granular access controls and full audit trails aligned with Privacy Act obligations.
International hiring compliance
Employer of Record via HeroForce
Hiring across borders introduces complex local employment law obligations. HeroForce acts as the legal Employer of Record in each country, managing contracts, payroll and compliance locally while you retain full day-to-day management of your team.
Employment Hero works alongside the tools your business already runs on
Xero
Payroll figures sync to Xero automatically, no manual reconciliation, no double entry at month end.
MYOB
For businesses running MYOB, Employment Hero connects directly and keeps payroll and accounts aligned.
QuickBooks Online
If you use QuickBooks, payroll data flows across automatically so your financial reporting stays current.
Sage Intacct
For businesses with more complex financial operations, Employment Hero integrates with Sage Intacct to keep payroll and the general ledger in sync.
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Frequently asked questions
HeroForce acts as the legal Employer of Record in the target country. You identify the candidate and manage their day-to-day work; Employment Hero handles the employment contract, local payroll, tax compliance and benefits in that jurisdiction. You have full control of the relationship without the setup cost of a new entity.
Yes. Award-free employees are still covered by the National Employment Standards, including minimum notice periods, leave entitlements and termination obligations. Employment Hero manages NES compliance automatically for every employee on your platform, regardless of award coverage.
Employment Hero's payroll engine supports commission structures, bonuses and variable pay components alongside base salaries. All components are processed in the same pay run with correct tax calculations and super applied where required.
Employment Hero is SOC 2 certified and stores all data on Australian servers. Granular access controls mean each team member sees only what they need to, and full audit trails record every change made to employment records, consistent with Privacy Act requirements.
Most financial services businesses are operational within a few weeks. Your existing employee data migrates across and our team handles setup so your people leadership isn't taken offline during the transition.
Run your business. We'll handle the employment side
Employment Hero gives financial services leaders the compliance confidence, global hiring capability and people tools to compete for the best talent, and keep them.