Back-office services for architects. Professional Employees Award payroll, industry-specific bookkeeping, BAS and compliance.
Professional Employees Award 2020 / Clerks Private Sector Award 2020
Architects 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.
Architects employees are typically covered by the Professional Employees Award 2020 / Clerks Private Sector Award 2020.
Classification structure: Professional Architect Levels 1–4, Architectural Graduate, Draftsperson, Admin (Clerks Award)
Ordinary hours: 38 hours/week. Project deadline-driven overtime common.
Penalty rates: Standard Professional Employees Award penalties.
Key allowances: Professional development allowance, travel allowance for site visits
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 architects means dealing with specific operational complexities that generic providers don't address:
Architects Board registration (state-based), mandatory CPD, PI insurance, building practitioner registration where required, and copyright protection for design work.
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-phase revenue tracking and billing. Long-project WIP management. Scope variation billing. PI insurance cost management. Competition cost tracking. Software licence optimisation. Practice succession financial planning.
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 an architecture practice 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 architects. We configure our services around your industry's reality rather than forcing you into a generic template.
Most architects employees are covered by the Professional Employees Award 2020 / Clerks Private Sector Award 2020. Professional Architect Levels 1–4, Architectural Graduate, Draftsperson, 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 architects use. The Operations Hub manages all integrations — configuration during onboarding, continuous monitoring, and issue resolution.
Most architects 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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