Payroll Specialist (DATEV/Lexware)

As a Payroll Specialist, you take care of timely and legally compliant salary payments. This is a task with real responsibility. This online continuing education course at Karriere Tutor prepares you practically for exactly this role. I find the structure clever because law, software, and modern AI tools come together.

You start with the basics of labor law. This includes legally compliant recruitment, rights and obligations in the employment relationship, as well as vacation and illness. Dismissal protection and collective labor law are also on the agenda.

Then it moves on to payroll and salary accounting. You learn to correctly handle wage tax, church tax, and social security contributions. Topics such as mini-jobs, benefits in kind, and company pension plans are covered, as well as billing processes and year-end closing tasks.

Another module is human resources. You deal with personnel marketing, recruitment, and the integration of new employees. Personnel development and personnel release are also part of it.

It gets practical with the software. You practice payroll and salary accounting with DATEV, from master data entry to company vehicles and garnishments. With Lexware, you settle midi-jobs, mini-jobs, and the year-end. In addition, you deepen MS Excel with pivot tables and learn how to use MS Copilot including Copilot Studio.

The classes take place on weekdays with a fixed structure of theory and practical exercises. In the full-time model, the continuing education course lasts 30 weeks, in part-time 60 weeks with shorter days. You set your start date in a personal consultation.

The continuing education course is aimed at people from all areas with completed vocational training or a degree and basic commercial knowledge. Through the Bildungsgutschein (education voucher), participation is often completely free of charge; alternatively, the Qualifizierungschancengesetz (law on qualification opportunities) helps with your employer. At the end, there is an exam and certification at DATEV as well as a certificate from Karriere Tutor. Currently, 1.396 participants rate Karriere Tutor with 4,6 out of 5 stars.

• Basics of labor law, compliant recruitment, and protection against dismissal
• Rights and obligations of the parties to an employment contract as well as collective labor law
• Wage tax, church tax, solidarity surcharge, and flat-rate taxation
• Social insurance systems: health, long-term care, pension, unemployment, and accident insurance
• Types of wages and supplements as well as special features for mini-jobs, retirees, and students
• Company pension schemes as well as billing processes, reports, and year-end closing tasks
• Introduction to human resources: HR marketing, recruitment, and employee integration
• Employee development and employee release
• MS Excel advanced with pivot tables, goal seek, and charts
• MS Copilot and Copilot Studio: prompts, application in Word, Excel, and Outlook as well as custom agents
• DATEV: basic operation and master data creation
• DATEV: calendar management, operational payroll run, and retroactive corrections
• DATEV: company vehicle setup, company pension scheme, as well as termination and garnishment
• Lexware: client and employee setup as well as payroll with correction mode
• Lexware: payroll for midi-jobs and mini-jobbers
• Lexware: payroll with year-end and annual wage tax adjustment