Training Classes

Come early or stay a day later to take advantage of optional training classes at the 2012 HRPyramid User Conference.

The following schedule is subject to changes.

Monday, April 23, 2012     jump to Thursday's schedule

HRPyramid Database Schema Review

9 am - 12 pm | Level: Introductory

This session will provide a detailed review of the HRPyramid database schema. The purpose is to provide attendees with an understanding of the location of operational employee, payroll, benefits, billing and related data stored within the HRPyramid database. This session would benefit both installed and hosted HRPyramid customers that are currently using or intend to use a third party reporting tool such as mvQuery or Informer to self-produce ad-hoc reports. Workstations are not provided as this is not a hands-on course. However, handouts will be provided of all material covered during the session.

Topics covered include:

• Understanding extended relational data structures
• Employee master file schema
• Payroll voucher file schema
• Tax registers and other accumulated files
• Employee benefit enrollment data files
• Billing and Invoicing data files

Who Should Attend This Training:
No technical experience is required.  

NOTE: This class was offered at the 2010 HRPyramid User Conference, with minor differences.

OnHRP Employee Onboarding

9 am - 12 pm | Level: Introductory/Intermediate

Learn how to setup and manage an effective online onboarding process using OnHRP, the online employee onboarding system integrated with HRPyramid.

Topics covered include:

• How to automate all necessary new hire forms and actions. All required and criteria-triggered forms and actions are pre-loaded to eliminate errors. OnHRP includes Government forms (I-9, W-4, State & local withholding), eligible benefits and custom forms, client-specific documents and direct deposit. 
• How to create and use customized templates to embed graphics, files, videos and anything else you can link in HTML.
• How to accommodate multiple onboarding processes with varying workflows and manage the distribution of new employee orientation packs specific to job level and department or division.
• How to manage company specific documents and collect and track all new hire data to easily produce compliance reports.
• How to seamlessly leverage OnHRP Benefits Enrollment to provide employees with online access to benefit plans and programs to process their new hire benefits enrollment and make changes to personal and dependent data as benefit-related life events occur.

Who Should Attend This Training:
This class is designed for anyone responsible for entering new hires, as well as those involved in the employee onboarding process.

Exploring Client Billing From Setup to Profit Reports

9 am - 12 pm | Level: Basic 

Have you ever wondered where the HRPyramid Profit Report numbers are coming from? Pondered the best way to implement SUTA rate changes? This class will cover where those cost and bill rates are stored, how and when rate changes should be entered, bundled versus unbundled billing, reporting options, and more.

At the end of the class, you will have an understanding of the system capabilities regarding billing and can share that with your sales force so they are cognizant of what you can deliver to your clients.

Topics covered include:

• How to manage state by state FUTA rates
• When to change and recalculate SUTA rates
• Worker's compensation setup
• Administrative fee options
• ASO billing alternatives
• Interpreting profit reports

Who Should Attend This Training:
This class is designed for managers responsible for entering new clients, as well as those deciphering profit reports.

PEO / ASO Client Accounting in HRPyramid

1 pm - 4 pm | Level: Intermediate 

This class is designed to give you a better understanding of how to interpret your client’s accounting needs and translate that into an accounting download or report that will provide them the information they need. You will have a better understanding of how HRPyramid uses information stored in the database to appropriately assign the client’s G/L accounts to get the desired results. You will also be able to know when a client’s chart of accounts setup may not work with the HRPyramid data structure.

Topics covered include: 

• How to interpret, from your client’s chart of accounts, the necessary structure to enter the account numbers in the set up screens.
• Where in HRPyramid the system is getting the data to assign the G/L accounts numbers and how those affect the resulting report or download file.
• The use of “wildcards” in the PEO Client Accounting and “prefix/suffix” in the ASO Client Accounting and how you can use those tools to create the results needed for more complicated chart of account structures.
• New in the latest releases of HRPyramid are functionalities to use non-billing accounting items is PEO Client Accounting and bill codes, other than Administration Fee (006), in ASO Client Accounting. We will review how these new functions will enhance the output created in the past.
• Finally we will cover the reports and downloads that can be created to send to your clients.
• As an added bonus, we are going to have an HRPyramid customer share with the class some tips, tricks and “out-of-the-box” methods they have found to enhance the file output for ASO Client Accounting. This should be an excellent presentation.

Who Should Attend This Training:
Those attending this session should have a basic understanding of the HRPyramid payroll process. They should also be familiar with company setup; including the use of divisions, departments, locations, and projects. This session will be at an intermediate level. This session should be attended by users who have the responsibility for setting up the client or processing their payrolls, including Payroll Managers, Accountants, Controllers, and CFO’s or any person involved in setting client accounting.

OnHRP Benefits Enrollment

1 pm - 4 pm | Level: Introductory/Intermediate  

Learn how to setup and manage OnHRP Benefits Enrollment to reduce administrative tasks and eliminate paper-based processes. 

Topics covered include:

• How to fully automate the OnHRP benefit enrollment process to enable employees to select their group benefits and FSA enrollment choices online, including health insurance, and flex options. Setup your system to allow your employees to review plan details and enroll using a fast, step by step process.
• How to setup all relevant benefits enrollment information. Learn how existing benefits and eligibility data is fed automatically from HRPyramid to OnHRP Employee Enrollment. Learn how to review data and statistics about employees' enrollment activity through dashboard views and flexible reporting capabilities.
• How to create and use customized templates to embed graphics, files, videos and anything else you can link in HTML. Learn setup tips to accommodate multiple enrollment processes with varying eligibility rules for specific benefit options.
• Seamlessly integrate with OnHRP Employee Onboarding that will broaden your solution to also include new hire information and other requirements of your open enrollment process.

Who Should Attend This Training:  
Anyone who assists in the setup and administration of employee benefits enrollment and uses - or plans to use OnHRP in the future - should take this course.

1 pm - 4 pm | Level: Intermediate 
This class discusses several specialized payroll topics in depth. The following topics will be covered during the class:

• Garnishments calculations 
• FLSA calculations
• Recalculate Overtime for a Batch
• Tax adjustments
• Successor wage entry
• Act 32 Pennsylvania Local tax 
• Deduction prioritization
• Fringe benefits
• Union calculations 
• Third-party sick pay
• Check printing options
• Workers comp by location option

Who Should Attend This Training:
This session is designed for payroll processors and managers who have a basic understanding of HRPyramid payroll processing, and would like to become more proficient or gain a better understanding of specialized payroll topics.