Graduate Payroll Manager (Apprenticeship)
- 100% online 24/7 • Web & Mobile
- Estimated duration: 609 hours • 18 months
- Starting at any time of the year
- RNCP Title Certification • Level 5 (Bac+2)
In short
Become a key player in HR performance through a professional work-study program.
Thanks to this work-study approach, you’ll develop your skills in a hands-on environment: you’ll immediately apply the knowledge you acquire and progress by working alongside industry professionals. This immersive experience will give you a concrete understanding of each step in the payroll process and personnel administration: from collecting data to issuing payslips, including social security declarations and communicating with various stakeholders. You’ll learn to secure and ensure the reliability of your practices within a sound legal framework, while gaining autonomy and efficiency.
Finally, through exclusive modules dedicated to artificial intelligence applied to payroll, you’ll discover how to leverage digital tools to automate your tasks, strengthen the reliability of your controls, and optimize your processes.
You will be able to:
Mastering the complete payroll cycle, from data entry to the transmission of declaration
Effectively manage the administrative life of employees, from contract to termination.
Communicating effectively with employees, managers and external partners.
Program
Payroll and social security declaration management
Create and maintain personnel files
- The company’s overall digitalization strategy
- The digitalization of the HR function
- The digitization of personnel files
- Managing staff movements and updating data
- The use of document management software and regulatory compliance
- Application: Creating and maintaining personnel files
Establish employment contracts
- The concept of labor law
- The formation of the employment contract
- Mastering the drafting of an employment contract
- The execution of the employment contract
- The open-ended employment contract
- Fixed-term contracts and temporary employment contracts
- The part-time employment contract
- Training contracts
- Drafting the employment contract
- Application: Establishing employment contracts
Processing employee arrivals and departures
- How and why to train in employee career management
- Recruitment
- The administrative formalities of hiring
- Suspension of the employment contract
- Editing the contract suspension documents
- Termination of the employment contract: introduction
- The dismissal
- Other ways to terminate an employment contract
- End-of-contract payments: end-of-contract bonus, paid leave allowance, RTT allowance, and other allowances
- Contract terminations: negotiated termination, departure and retirement
- The formalities for terminating an employment contract
- Editing the end-of-contract documents
- Application: Processing employee arrivals and departures
Analyze and communicate social data.Process events impacting payroll.
Administrative management of personnel
Collect and calculate variable compensation elements
- How and why to train in the collection and calculation of payroll variables
- Introduction to Payroll Management
- Payroll management (for beginners)
- Working hours
- Remuneration
- The methodology for collecting and securing data
- Gross salary: accrual and taking of paid leave
- Gross salary: paid leave allowance
- Gross pay: overtime
- Presentation of gross remuneration and legal working hours
- Presentation of gross remuneration and actual working time
- Gross compensation: base salary, bonuses, and deductions for absences
- Gross pay: overtime and Sunday work
- Gross pay: overtime
- Gross salary: benefits in kind
- Gross remuneration: sick leave, deduction for absence, subrogation and daily sickness benefits
- Gross salary: sick leave and employer supplement
- The strike and the lockout
- Application: Collect and calculate variable compensation elements
Calculate and monitor social security contributions
- The various social security contributions
- The basis for calculating social security contributions
- Reductions in social security contributions
- Social security contribution adjustments
- Detecting and correcting discrepancies
- Application: Calculate and verify social security contributions
Configure and edit payslips
- The presentation and methodology of the payslip
- The payment of wages
- The payslip of an executive without an employment contract
- Partial activity
- Sales Representative’s Payslip
- Construction worker payslips
- The payslip for the construction industry (ETAM and Managers)
- Apprentice Payslip
- The intern’s stipend
- Install and download SAGE v10 on Windows 10
- The 2019 database
- Launching the application
- Discover the application
- The creation of a company
- Setting up a company
- Setting up the establishment
- The creation of employee records
- Setting up template payslips
- Setting the gross salary
- Setting up social security contributions
- Setting up net salaries
- Social declarations
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Application: Configuring the payroll software
Check and validate payslips
- Net salary and taxable salary
- The impacts of withholding tax
- Net salary to be paid and social security contributions
- The methodology for controlling and detecting anomalies
- The challenges of identifying and analyzing discrepancies between payroll and accounting
- Quality control procedures
- Application: Checking and validating payslips
Archive and secure payroll data
- The digital transition
- The digital safe
- The GDPR
- Archiving procedures and retention periods
- Securing access and authorization levels
- Application: Archiving and securing payroll data
Edit and submit mandatory declarations
- How and why to train in the editing and control of social declarations
- The payroll book
- Reporting procedures
- The content of social declarations: the general reduction and TEPA
- The content of social declarations: contributions, PAYE and social contributions
- Managing sick leave in payroll
- Managing the employment declaration of disabled workers
- The payroll tax
- The Cufpa (1): the apprenticeship tax
- The Cufpa (2): the contribution to vocational training
- Application: Editing and submitting mandatory declarations
Communication and assistance with various stakeholders
What if AI became your best business asset?
In addition, this program offers modules dedicated to Artificial Intelligence applied to the Payroll Manager profession . Structured in two levels, it allows you to acquire the right reflexes for responsible use.
You will learn to leverage AI to automate your tasks, optimize your payroll controls, master specialized tools, and communicate effectively with AI. A real lever to boost your efficiency and gain a competitive edge in your career!
BONUS: Training in AI for my future career
Conducting legal monitoring
- The monitoring process
- Legal monitoring
- The different types of monitoring
- Professional sources of labor law
- The hierarchy of sources of labor law
- Social protection, general information
- Professional training
- The powers of the employer and the protection of employees’ health
- How to conduct and communicate social and payroll monitoring
- Application: Conducting legal monitoring
Communicating with colleagues and managers
- The fundamentals of professional communication
- Active listening
- Non-verbal communication
- The fundamentals of public speaking
- Remote meetings
- Interactive writing: writing a letter
- Easy-to-Read and Understand (FALC) communication techniques
- Advice and assistance to management and employees
- The fundamentals of social security
- General health insurance scheme
- Protection against unemployment
- Old-age insurance under the general scheme
- Application: Communicating with colleagues and managers
Communicating with external partners
- External partners of the payroll service
- The communication tools of the payroll department with its partners
- Controls on the application of labor law
- Disputes arising from the employment relationship
- Procedures for resolving collective disputes
- Social controls and disputes
- The role and control of the URSSAF
- Application: Communicating with external partners
Assisting HRIS users
- The use of an HRIS
- The challenges of an HRIS
- HRIS functionalities
- The regulations inherent to HRIS
- Introduction to the concept of a database
- Database exploitation
- Proder Talentsoft or cornerstone
- Drafting letters to staff
- Training and support for HRIS users
- Application: Assisting HRIS users
Design reporting and decision-making support tools
- General information about the Excel environment
- Calculating the workforce
- The social report
- Prior collection of HR information
- Editing social dashboards
- Tools for visualizing and accessing payroll data
- Analysis and monitoring of social dashboards
- Payroll analysis and forecasting
- Employee involvement in company performance: general information
- Participation
- The profit-sharing
- Employee savings plans
- Application: Designing reporting and decision-making support tools
Specific arrangements for work-study programs - Levels 4 to 6 (Baccalaureate to Bac+3)
Module: Succeeding in my apprenticeship (estimated duration: 50 hours)
- Knowledge of work-study programs, contracts, mutual commitments, support and monitoring procedures
- Citizenship, diversity and health at work.
Module: Succeeding in my professional life (estimated duration: 20 hours)
- Understanding the company’s challenges to facilitate my integration
- Stand out in the workplace
Educational support and reinforcement, followed by the Career Center (estimated duration: 54 hours on average)
- An interactive live session each week to answer questions from apprentices and provide information related to social assistance, international mobility, and disability.
- CFA monitoring: multi-year tripartite interviews
Digital skills (Studi+ access)
- Access to 1 or 2 short « digital skills » programs of your choice from the catalog, allowing you to train and practice on the software best suited to your company.
Upon completion of the training, you will obtain
RNCP Title
Obtain the « Accountant » professional certification, level 5, issued by Studi, RNCP41644, decision of France Compétences on 27/11/25, NSF 314, 314p, 314t
School diploma
&
Obtain the Payroll Manager diploma awarded by Studi in partnership with ESG RH
The Studi Method: Your Path to Success
Continuous support, proactive and on-demand personalized onboarding
You're never alone: from the moment you start your training, you'll be onboarded by your dedicated apprenticeship mentor who will guide you through the entire process. They'll introduce you to the starter kit (video conference, guides, contact information, schedule, tools), and you'll participate in your introductory live session. Your mentor will proactively contact you every month for a progress review, and you can reach them as needed!
Monitoring of your assignments and with your company
You will receive a monthly statement of your educational progress and regular monitoring of your integration and your missions in the company, thanks to structured tripartite interviews and a dynamic skills acquisition matrix shared with your tutor.
An educational forum and corrected assessments
For all your questions, our educational forum guarantees a response from our expert trainers within 24 working hours, with corrected assessments to help you progress.
Intensive exam preparation
Dedicated virtual classes are organized for each targeted certification to prepare you for exam tests and deliverables, with corrected mock exams, intensive revision weeks and oral practice.
Tailor-made career support
Discover best practices in work-study programs and refine your career plan: our career coaching program helps you at every stage to boost your employability today and for tomorrow (personality test, pitch and personal branding but also networking with alumni, partner recruitment platforms, internal job dating sessions).
A concrete and immersive teaching method
Because work-study is about practical experience, our courses are based on active learning: practical case studies, role-playing and immersive content to develop skills that can be directly applied in the workplace.
Resources accessible at any time
Dedicated virtual classes are organized for each targeted certification to prepare you for exam tests and deliverables, with corrected mock exams, intensive revision weeks and oral practice.
A true learning community
You'll be joining a collaborative platform to exchange ideas, share information, ask questions, and build relationships with other apprentices and trainers. Because learning is also a collective adventure.
360° skills for a differentiated profile
Alongside your training, you have access to additional modules to go further: applied AI, professional tools, languages, soft skills… all assets to broaden your skills and make a difference in the job market.
Terms and conditions
Admission requirements
To enroll in the training program leading to the targeted qualification, the candidate must:
- Be at least 16 years old on the date of entry into training
For any other situation, contact a training advisor who will assess your eligibility.
Professional experience and internship
The professional internship, which complements the theoretical learning, is essential for the validation of your qualification.
The total duration of the internship is a minimum of 210 hours.
The candidate will present proof of this period in the company to the examination session manager, who will keep a copy in the
session file.
Exam
The candidate will be evaluated according to the following methods:
- Assessments completed during training
- Production of a Professional Portfolio
- Creation of supplementary materials (document and slideshow)
- Completion and successful completion of the final in-person examinations:
– Professional simulation (4.5 hours)
– Technical maintenance (1 hour 25 minutes)
– Questioning based on production(s) (0h35)
– Final interview (0h10)
Certification
To find out the job placement rate for the targeted positions, consult the RNCP profile on the France Compétences website.
Validation by skills block
Professional certification is composed of several skill blocks that must be acquired in order to obtain the professional certification.
It is possible to validate one or more of the skill blocks. Each block can be acquired individually.
The RNCP record accessible from each training course record specifies the conditions for obtaining it.
For any questions regarding skills blocks, contact your training advisor.
Equivalencies and pathways
Partial equivalencies with:
RNCP36938 – BTS (Advanced Vocational Diploma) – Social and Family Economics;
RNCP36939 – BTS (Advanced Vocational Diploma) – Services and Benefits in the Health and Social Sectors; RNCP38575 – TP (Professional Title) –
Manager of a Small or Medium-Sized Structure;
RNCP38676 – TP – Manager of a Retail Unit.
Full equivalency with:
RNCP35993 – TP – Home Services Coordinator.
For more details: see the France Compétences fact sheet – https://www.francecompetences.fr/recherche/rncp/39539/
Further studies
After obtaining the Professional Title of Home Services Coordinator, you can either:
enter the job market directly
or continue towards:
– a Professional Bachelor’s Degree in Personal Services
– a University Diploma of Technology (BUT) in Social Careers: Coordination and Management of Health and Social Care Establishments and Services.
This list is not exhaustive.
Other further options are available.
Performance indicators
Funding
Alternation
100%*
Included
- Personalized methodological support from your assigned advisor
- Educational support provided by our expert trainers
- Written courses and on-demand videos, and personalized assessments
- Exam-specific preparation
- Individual support for your assignments within the company
- Career coaching
- Unlimited access to over 10,000 live and on-demand virtual classes*
- Unlimited access to Skills 360 for 2 years
*Average number of live virtual classes observed over the last 12 months (mostly organized from 6pm onwards)
Access to the platform is granted on average within 14 days of the funder’s approval. This timeframe may vary depending on the type of funding.
Target professions
- Payroll Manager
- Payroll Project Manager
- Payroll Technician
- Human Resources Manager
- Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager
- HR Assistant, Payroll and/or Administration
- Payroll Manager
- Human Resources Manager
- Payroll employee
- HR Payroll and/or Administration Officer
- Head of Personnel Administration
- Course Management
- Communication and Collaboration
- User-Friendly Interface
- Educational Institutions
- Businesses and Organization
- Individual Learners
- User-Friendly Interface
- Robust Course Management Capabilities
- Effective Communication and Collaboration
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