The Earth moves around its axis at a speed of 1,670 kilometers per hour, preventing life processes from stopping, but the modern world in which we live is much faster. It accelerates rapidly every day, and successful people move at the same pace with it, but only the leaders are ahead of it.
Therefore, to go in tandem with the present, it is necessary to own and skillfully operate innovative knowledge and tools. Therefore, the Online Academy from SMART business, which is one of the leaders in digitalization not only in Ukraine, but also in the world, has set itself the goal of sharing its invaluable experience and skills that are relevant for doing business – one of the key drivers of the modern world.
For more than 15 years, SMART business has been helping companies develop, implement, and maintain ERP systems from Microsoft that transform business and bring it to a new competitive level that meets international standards, and the Online Academy has become the quintessence of knowledge in this area. Here, both experienced and young specialists from various industries receive an extensive base of knowledge in the field of HR and Payroll processes in an international ERP system, which can be immediately applied in their work, improving, and optimizing the internal processes of their companies.
Let’s see what exactly the learning process looks like from the inside by looking at the Payroll Academy, the “HR and Payroll Processes in the international ERP system from Microsoft” course. It is this area that is in great demand among those who already work or want to work with the Payroll solution from SMART business, localized under Ukrainian labor legislation, developed on the basis of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP system.
Payroll Academy – international approach with localized solutions
When developing SMART Payroll – a comprehensive tool for effective payroll processes, staff and work time management – SMART business primarily focused on the tasks faced by specialists working in the Ukrainian market.
One of the advantages of SMART Payroll is regular releases and constant improvement of the system. By regularly monitoring changes in legislation, reflecting global system updates, and considering customer requests, the solution covers all the needs of payroll and HR tasks. The Payroll Academy program is an aggregator that combines the features of companies in the local market and the vast experience of the team in implementing international ERP systems. Therefore, its goal is to train and retrain those who are tired of routine HR and accounting processes and want to take them to a higher level thanks to new opportunities. The course will allow specialists to adopt effective international practices and thereby gain invaluable experience in realizing their professional goals. Moreover, now that our companies are migrating globally to Business Central as a safe replacement of the unreliable russian 1C, the need for specialists who could easily retrain and work with modern solutions has increased. Therefore, the Payroll Academy has become a significant part of the Localization hub for training and development of specialists.
Let’s briefly look at the main advantages of the localized SMART Payroll solution, which you will learn about in more detail and learn how to work on in a course at the Online Academy:
- Compliance with the legislation and labor standards of Ukraine – meaning the system has already been taught to generate the necessary template reports on declarations, HR records, vacations, and absence statuses, in accordance with the requirements of local labor legislation, automating routine processes and minimizing errors due to the human factor,
- Intuitive role-based interface – allows a specialist to easily use the functionality, even if they have not worked with similar interfaces before, which will allow a more experienced specialist to more easily and quickly teach a newcomer to navigate the system. In addition, the functionality and appearance of the interface can be customized to individual needs, which makes use even more convenient,
- Generation of analytical reports – consider that SMART Payroll includes a whole department of professional analysts who will become indispensable assistants in the generation of analytical data, their visualization, modeling and uploading.
Aiming for maximum benefit and efficiency
The first group for the “HR and Payroll Processes in the international ERP system from Microsoft” course was formed quite quickly, which shows a large demand for training in this area. The involvement and dedication of the participants was incredible:
I would not say that I was surprised by the interest and the participants’ thirst for knowledge, since we are always working with enterprising individuals who are close to us in their desire to grow professionally, learn new things and make every effort to achieve success in their field of activity,
The course program consists of two parts:
- Theoretical part – consists of lectures and a detailed demonstration in a demo environment of all SMART Payroll capabilities using illustrative examples. After lectures, participants receive training videos to reinforce and revise the material, as well as perform practical assignments,
- Practical research – includes work identical to real cases connected with reporting, HR orders, creating a staffing list, approving documentation, payroll calculation in SMART Payroll, of course, with the active involvement and mentoring of the lecturer.
The course consists of 6 lessons, where the Online Academy team has collected everything you need to become a highly qualified specialist in working with the international ERP system Business Central with an emphasis on SMART Payroll. Here is a detailed description of the training program:
Day 1: Architecture overview and system customization.
Day 2: Managing the company’s organizational structure.
Day 3: Labor contracts, absence orders, time sheets.
Day 4: Payroll and financial settings.
Day 5: Planned operations and payroll work.
Day 6: Working with analytical and tax reporting.
The path looks intense and interesting, doesn’t it? And SMART business provides everyone who completes it with certificates confirming the acquired knowledge.
If you want to join the certified professionals, gain valuable skills and be like a duck to water working with the SMART Payroll solution, good news for you is that the next “HR and Payroll Processes in the international ERP system from Microsoft” course will start soon. The Online Academy team is looking forward to seeing you:
Who the Online Academy course is aimed at
The Payroll Academy course is primarily aimed at specialists whose profession is most connected with the tasks covered by SMART Payroll. Therefore, if you are a specialist in the HR department, accounting department or ERP consultant, the course will be especially valuable for you.
Also, the knowledge gained can help decide for those who are looking for which ERP system to migrate their company’s processes to in order to abandon russian 1C and other unreliable software. The course will give you essential arguments on the international ERP system Business Central and SMART Payroll, which is part of its ecosystem. You will be able to consult with our lecturer and practically determine the pros and cons for yourself.
Payroll Academy participants often include those who have already started working with our Microsoft-based solution. If you want to reinforce and enhance the skills you acquired on your own or want to share problematic cases that you encountered directly “in the field” and discuss ways to solve them, the course fully meets your request.
Payroll Academy says welcome to those who wish to expand the range of their awareness and professional competencies to skillfully compete in the Ukrainian and foreign labor markets.
And the Online Academy team is also glad to see those who are just beginning their acquaintance with ERP systems, who are looking for the right vector towards the IT community.
If we managed to hold your attention and you have read this far, then you will be rewarded with some insider statistics based on the results of the latest Payroll Academy course:
- More than 80 participants attended the academy,
- 67% decided to take the test, of which 88% did it flawlessly,
- 55% completed all practical assignments, showing good results,
- 90% of participants who completed tactical tasks completed it without additional help from the lecturer,
- 100% positive reviews from participants who provided feedback,
- Based on the results of completing the course, 2 candidates were invited for an interview at SMART business for the role of ERP consultant.
Thank you very much for the opportunity to try to go through all the operations on your own! The test assignment was interesting, and the practical one was absolutely delightful!, a course participant Olena Logosha shared her feedback.
Liliia is an excellent and professional lecturer, however, it was a little inconvenient to look for answers to specific questions in the videos. Perhaps if there were some general diagrams with the sequence of specific processes, it would be easier for me to complete practical assignments. At the same time, the course was very interesting. I thank your entire team for its impeccable organization!, another course participant, Oleksandr Tymoshchuk, shared his impressions, and the academy will definitely take into account the suggestions provided.
About our upcoming course
So, inspired by the reviews and warm feedback from the participants of the previous academy, the SMART business team decided not to delay and prepare its “HR and Payroll Processes in the international ERP system from Microsoft” course for the next group. When forming a knowledge base for each lesson, lecturers are guided by the wishes of participants of the previous academy, revise the materials in accordance with market changes affecting the business processes of companies, and take into account the experience of working with SMART business customers in order to cover as many common and, on the contrary, unique cases for analysis.
The Payroll Academy expects people who clearly understand how important it is to improve to achieve success and maintain it, fueled by new experience. It is this principle that Microsoft adheres to, developing and constantly improving its products, one of which is the international ERP system Business Central, which is regularly updated with new modules, tools, and solutions such as SMART Payroll. The ability to build additional functionality in accordance with the needs and changes associated with business scaling is based on the value of continuous development that Microsoft conveys through its products, noting the undoubted benefits of such innovations, and the Online Academy from SMART business teaches specialists how to work with these innovative solutions, keeping up to date with all the news in this area.
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