Back-office services for consultancies. Professional Employees Award payroll, industry-specific bookkeeping, BAS and compliance.
Professional Employees Award 2020 / Clerks Private Sector Award 2020
Consultancies 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 professional services businesses like yours.
Consultancies employees are typically covered by the Professional Employees Award 2020 / Clerks Private Sector Award 2020.
Classification structure: Professional Employee Level 1–4, Consulting Associate, Admin (Clerks Award)
Ordinary hours: 38 hours/week. Client engagement hours may extend beyond standard.
Penalty rates: Standard Professional Employees Award penalties.
Key allowances: Travel allowance, professional development allowance
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.
Running consultancies means dealing with specific operational complexities that generic providers don't address:
Professional body memberships, PI insurance, privacy obligations for client data, and contract management.
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.
Project-level billing and WIP. Consultant utilisation reporting. Subcontractor management and TPAR. Client-billable expense tracking and recharge. Revenue concentration analysis. Proposal cost tracking. Client profitability reporting.
Professional Employees 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 professional services sector.
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.
For a consultancy with 5–15 staff: Finance + People Hub $1,500–$3,000/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.
Yes. Our team has direct experience with the Professional Employees Award and the specific operational, financial, and compliance requirements of consultancies. We configure our services around your industry's reality rather than forcing you into a generic template.
Most consultancies employees are covered by the Professional Employees Award 2020 / Clerks Private Sector Award 2020. Professional Employee Level 1–4, Consulting Associate, Admin (Clerks Award) We determine the correct award and classification for each employee during onboarding and configure payroll accordingly.
Yes. We integrate with the POS, rostering, and industry-specific platforms that consultancies use. The Operations Hub manages all integrations — configuration during onboarding, continuous monitoring, and issue resolution.
Most consultancies 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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