HR Audit Certification Training Course

Why Select This Training Course?

Duties performed within the human resource department have both legal and financial implications for an organisation. Therefore, it is vital for personnel in the HR department to ensure data integrity and accuracy. One way to ensure that this is done is through regular HR audits. HR auditors inspect the internal control systems of an organisation, ensuring they function properly and optimally. The Rcademy HR Audit Certification Training Course offers participants the basics of systems audits, legal compliance, policies, and documentation. Trainees will be taught to develop key audit competencies using prevailing processes, principles and techniques.

The course contents are comprehensive and cover key areas like audit types, ethics of human relations audits, the importance of human resource audits, the audit process, audit integrity, and reporting. Participants will also learn how to audit companies and their subsidiaries per established standards, identify gaps in human resource processes and render improvements.

What are the Challenges of HR Audit?

Human resources auditing is a comprehensive process that many businesses regularly carry out to determine whether the organisation’s human resources practices align with prevailing practices and meet established legal guidelines. The HR audit aims to evaluate whether the organisation’s procedures and practices align with employment and labour laws. HR audit, therefore, advises on legal challenges that an organisation should address to avoid falling short of regulatory standards.

In the process of this audit, experts encounter various challenges impeding the audit process. These challenges include privacy, workplace complications, inadequate record-keeping, compliance issues, inconsistent hiring practices, inadequate performance management, and poor personnel training and development.

What are the Areas of HR Audit?

HR audit offers valuable insight into an organisation’s effectiveness and how to prioritise efforts to achieve regulatory and legal compliance while boosting

performance in key sectors. HR audit provides a proactive opportunity to discover what is being done correctly and how best to improve failing sectors to ensure the overall profitability and productivity of the organisation. Outcomes obtained from HR audits are valuable in decision-making and help shape the opinions of potential investors, stakeholders, shareholders, and heads of the organisation. The key areas of human resources audit include:

• Staffing and development
• Planning
• Organisation
• Compensation
• Training
• Hiring
• Performance evaluation
• Compliance
• Research and innovation

Who Should Attend?

This training course is designed for learners who want to understand the rudiments of human resources audit, its principles and procedures. The following should undertake the course:

• Auditors tasked with monitoring the accounts and cash flow of an organisation to ensure they are properly recorded and accurately processed.
• Human resources managers responsible for managing and directing the administrative functions in an organisation.
• Financial analysts charged with tracking a firm’s financial operations against an established plan and evaluating the market and business performances.
• Tax specialists tasked with collating and explaining tax options for clients, creating quarterly and annual tax compliance schedules of a company.
• Bankers responsible for processing payments, deposits, and withdrawals and authorising loans and overdrafts.
• Economists responsible for studying market activities, gathering and evaluating socioeconomic and financial data, and advising governments and businesses on economic decisions.
• Any other person interested in understanding the rudiments of human resources audit and contingent practices.

What are the Course objectives?

At the end of the Rcademy HR Audit Certification Training Course, partakers will be able to:

• Understand how to plan, implement, report, and evaluate value-adding system audits
• Learn and understand how to conduct internal audits of management systems
• Recognise and take corrective measures focused on bridging the gaps identified during human resource audit
• Understand the value of human resources in the management and administration of a successful organisation
• Recognise prevailing best practices in the HR industry and how to apply them in the organisation
• Learn how to boost productivity and feedback from employees to help improve HR procedures and processes
• Learn how to run a management systems audit
• Know how to be a valuable force in a company’s improvement processes

How will this Course be Presented?

This training course is designed to fulfil the needs of participants while also improving their knowledge and skills in the field. This course will be presented using a variety of practical ways to ensure attendees’ sustained and continuous learning. The course will be taught by renowned experts and professionals with years of work and experience. The course modules are also based on thorough research into the subject.

The Rcademy HR Audit Certification Training Course combines practical and theoretical approaches by providing attendees with cases, studies, lectures, slides on the concepts, and real-life scenarios. Participants will also engage in presentations, seminar workshops, quizzes, and regular feedback on lessons learned to confirm their optimum satisfaction.

What are the Topics Covered in this Course?

Module 1: The Value of HR Audit

• Transparency and effectiveness
• Workplace productivity
• Elevating HR departments to world-class standards
• Tracking initiatives, evaluating results and devising blueprints for course correction
• Aligning organisational objectives with personnel

Module 2: Key Auditing Skills

• Effective questioning
• Planning and preparation
• Maintaining independence
• Gathering and evaluating objective evidence
• Developing audit documentation
• The duties of the auditor

Module 3: Approaches to HR Audit

• Management by objective
• Statistical approach
• Comparative approach
• Outside authority approach
• Compliance approach

Module 4: Computer-Based Data Management System Audit

• Recognising best approaches for preserving virtual records of employees
• Ensuring electronic data matches personnel information files
• Dealing with the challenges of electronic data storage
• Relevant data management tools, uses and applicabilities
• Analysing and employing prevailing techniques for maintaining electronic personnel data

Module 5: HR Audit Reporting

• Designing the audit report
• Making presentations before stakeholders
• Discussing and preparing audit conclusions and follow-up
• Utilising graphs and charts where appropriate
• Maintaining records using electronic and physical methodologies

Module 6: Data Integrity

• Data cleansing (duplicates and outliers)
• Control charts
• Indices
• Common vs. special causes
• Pareto analysis

Module 7: Employee Administration Process Audit

• Evaluating and designing the probation administration process
• Maintaining a proper leave record
• Ensuring correct calculation of severance pay
• Overtime management review
• Evaluating personnel performance appraisal process

Module 8: Techniques of HR Audit

• Group interview method
• Workshop method
• Individual interview method
• Questionnaire/survey method
• Observation

Module 9: Organisational Chart Audit

• Identifying the elements of a quality organisation chart
• Conducting proper evaluation of organisation charts
• Analysing current organisation chart for strengths and weaknesses
• Identifying areas of possible improvement
• Designing possible actions
• Developing a plan for implementing improvements

Module 10: Recruitment and Selection Process Audit

• Application process audit
• Required postings
• Privacy policy and efficiency
• Evaluating the current workforce plan
• Comparative analysis of HR policy plans
• Analysing the efficiency of the current recruitment and hiring process using the organisation’s HR policy
• Improving recruitment formalities for new employees
• Modifying workforce budget and plan to include vital components
• Creating appropriate joinder files

Module 11: Workplace Audit

• Performance evaluation
• Employee training, seminars and workshops
• Job satisfaction
• Reward system: Pay and compensation efficiency
• Discrimination policies, management and reports
• Harassment policies, management and reports

Module 12: Audit and Regulatory Compliance

• Rendering audit reports to authorities
• Compliance with extant labour and employee laws and regulations
• Verifying employee records
• Pension records for national employees
• Compliance with employee unions
• Affirmative action compliance

Module 13: ISO 9001 Standards and Compliance

• HR and competency procedure
• Matrix for Departmental Competency
• Turtle diagram
• Process map

Clause compliance

•  Organisational context
• Leadership and commitment
• Responsibilities, roles and authorities
• Competent and aware personnel
• Operational control and planning
• QMS improvement policy