Project Homes Back-Office Services
Back-office services for project homes. Building Award payroll, industry-specific bookkeeping, BAS and compliance.
Applicable Award
Building and Construction General On-site Award 2020
Project Homes have specific operational patterns and compliance requirements that generic bookkeeping services don't understand. You need back-office support from people who know your industry — the revenue models, the compliance landscape, the operational realities. Valont provides integrated finance, people, and technology operations built for construction businesses like yours.
The Applicable Modern Award
Project Homes employees are typically covered by the Building and Construction General On-site Award 2020.
Classification structure: Building Worker Levels 1–8, Site Supervisor, Sales/Admin (may fall under Clerks Award)
Ordinary hours: 36 hours/week for site staff. Admin staff on 38-hour week under Clerks Award.
Penalty rates: Building Award for site staff, Clerks Award for office/sales staff.
Key allowances: Tool allowance, industry allowance, travel between sites
Getting award interpretation wrong creates systematic underpayment that compounds with every pay period. Our payroll specialists configure award-specific software to calculate every classification, penalty, and allowance correctly — and conduct quarterly audits to ensure ongoing compliance.
Back-Office Challenges for Project Homes
Running project homes means dealing with specific operational complexities that generic providers don't address:
- Volume-based financial management — tracking costs and margins across dozens or hundreds of concurrent builds from standard designs
- Standard cost templates vs actual cost variance analysis per build
- Sales commission structures and revenue recognition at contract signing vs progressive stages
- Display home operating costs as marketing expense allocation
- Council approval timelines and their impact on cash flow and build scheduling
- Client upgrade tracking — pricing and cost management of client-selected upgrades to standard inclusions
- Warranty provisioning across large numbers of completed builds
- Dual-award payroll — Building Award for site staff, Clerks Award for sales and admin
Industry Compliance
State building authority licensing, consumer protection legislation specific to volume building, ASIC licensing for managed investment schemes (if applicable), and statutory warranty obligations.
We maintain a compliance calendar that covers both your general business obligations (BAS, STP, super, payroll tax, workers compensation) and your industry-specific requirements, ensuring nothing falls through the gap between your financial compliance and your operational compliance.
How Valont Supports Project Homes
Finance Hub
Volume build financial tracking with standard cost variance analysis. Sales commission management. Display home cost allocation. Client upgrade pricing and margin analysis. Warranty provisioning. Dual-award payroll (Building + Clerks). Multi-site project reporting.
People Hub
Building Award-compliant payroll processing through KeyPay or Employment Hero with automated award interpretation. STP reporting with every pay run. Superannuation calculation and initiation on schedule. Ongoing payroll compliance audits. HR advisory covering employment contracts, workplace policies, onboarding, and termination processes specific to the construction sector.
Operations Hub
Managed IT support with proactive monitoring and helpdesk. Essential Eight cybersecurity implementation. Cloud platform management (Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace). Integration management between your industry-specific systems and accounting/payroll platforms.
Pricing
For a project home builder with 15–40 employees: Finance + People Hub $2,500–$5,000/month. This replaces the combined cost of a separate bookkeeper, payroll provider, and the owner's time spent on admin — typically 10 to 15 hours per week for a business of this size.
Fixed-fee, month-to-month, no lock-in. We retain clients through service quality, not contractual obligation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you specialise in project homes?
Yes. Our team has direct experience with the Building Award and the specific operational, financial, and compliance requirements of project homes. We configure our services around your industry's reality rather than forcing you into a generic template.
Which award applies to my project home business?
Most project homes employees are covered by the Building and Construction General On-site Award 2020. Building Worker Levels 1–8, Site Supervisor, Sales/Admin (may fall under Clerks Award) We determine the correct award and classification for each employee during onboarding and configure payroll accordingly.
Can you integrate with our existing systems?
Yes. We integrate with the POS, rostering, and industry-specific platforms that project homes use. The Operations Hub manages all integrations — configuration during onboarding, continuous monitoring, and issue resolution.
What if our current books are a mess?
Most project homes come to us with some level of backlog or disorganisation. We bring your books current during onboarding at no additional cost and establish the systems and processes that keep them current going forward.
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