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Payroll Accounting & HR Payroll Internship
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Step 2: Submit Your Task(s)
You will be assigned weekly tasks to complete. Submit them on time to earn your certificate.
Step 3: Your task(s) will be evaluated
Your tasks will be evaluated by our team. You will receive feedback and suggestions for improvement.
Step 4: Receive your Certificate
Once you complete your tasks, you will receive a certificate of completion. This certificate will be a valuable addition to your resume.
About this Internship
This Payroll Accounting internship connects payroll processing with accounting and HR operations. You will learn payroll journal entries and how payroll flows into the general ledger, month-end payroll reconciliation, accruals, working with an HRMS/payroll module, and producing statutory and management reports. By the end you will understand how payroll integrates with finance and HR systems end to end.
Tasks and Duties
Week 1 Task: Payroll Journal Entries & the General Ledger
Summary
Learn how payroll is recorded in accounting.
Objective
Understand how a payroll run is recorded: salary expense, statutory liabilities, and net pay, and how these post to the general ledger.
Deliverable: prepare the journal entries for a sample payroll run.
Week 2 Task: Payroll Reconciliation & Accruals
Summary
Reconcile payroll to the GL and handle month-end accruals.
Objective
Learn month-end payroll reconciliation, identifying and fixing variances, and salary/bonus accruals.
Deliverable: reconcile a sample payroll register to a GL summary and note any differences.
Week 3 Task: HRMS / Payroll Software Operations
Summary
Work with an HRMS payroll module end to end.
Objective
Understand how an HRMS/payroll system handles employee master data, attendance, and pay processing, and the importance of clean input data.
Deliverable: a short process map of how data flows from HR to payroll to accounting in a typical HRMS.
Week 4 Task: Statutory & Management Payroll Reporting
Summary
Produce statutory filings and management reports.
Objective
Cover the statutory reports payroll must produce and management reports (headcount cost, department-wise cost) leadership needs.
Deliverable: a sample monthly payroll cost report broken down by department.
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