Payroll & HR Systems. Advised, Integrated, Operated
Core Software helps executives, CFOs, and people leaders make the right decisions about the payroll, HR, and workforce systems behind their business. From independent platform advisory and multi-region compliance, through to fully operated Managed Payroll & HR Operations delivered by our team. Decades of senior leadership and systems experience. Global reach across Africa, the UK, and Brazil through our flagship partnership with Deel Local Payroll.
The conversations we have with executives and people leaders.
If any of the following sound familiar, we should talk.
These are the conversations we have every week with businesses that have outgrown their workforce systems. And outgrown the firms supporting them.
Independent advisory for the systems behind your workforce.
Before you change platforms, outsource an operation, or commit to a multi-year transformation, you need independent advice. We bring it, grounded in decades of senior leadership and systems experience, without a vendor's quota behind any recommendation we make.
Systems Advisory: The right platforms, the right architecture, the right reasons.
Choosing a payroll or HR platform is a five-to-ten-year commitment. We help you make that decision with the rigour it deserves, independent of any vendor.
Payroll & HR Platform Advisory
Vendor-agnostic evaluation and selection of payroll, HCM, and HRIS platforms. Requirements definition, RFP design, vendor shortlisting, and decision facilitation.
Systems Integration & Architecture
Designing how your payroll, HR, ERP, time-and-attendance, and workforce systems talk to each other, so data flows cleanly and reporting can be trusted.
Business Case & Readiness
Board-ready business cases for payroll and HR platform investment, covering commercial, operational, compliance, and change dimensions.
Compliance & Multi-Region Advisory: Payroll and HR compliance in the jurisdictions you actually operate in.
Multi-region payroll is not a software problem. It's a compliance, tax, currency, and governance discipline, and the wrong advice costs far more than the right advisory fee.
Multi-Region Payroll Compliance Advisory
Jurisdictional compliance guidance across Africa, the UK, Brazil, the UAE, and beyond, drawing on our Deel Local Payroll partnership for in-region depth.
Expatriate & Cross-Border Workforce Strategy
Tax-equalisation design, multi-currency payroll strategy, and the governance structures that keep cross-border workforce operations audit-ready.
Payroll Audit & Remediation
Independent review of existing payroll operations, identifying compliance gaps, process weaknesses, and opportunities for recovery or cost reduction.
Implementation, Adoption & Optimisation
Making the platform work in your business.
Most payroll and HR platform projects don't fail at go-live. They fail in the months after, when adoption stalls, integrations break, and the business decides the platform "doesn't work." We prevent that.
Implementation Advisory & Delivery
Platform configuration, data migration, go-live planning, and post-go-live stabilisation.
Change Management & Training
The adoption disciplines that make new payroll and HR platforms actually land with the people using them.
Ongoing Support & Optimisation
A retained advisory relationship that keeps your payroll and HR systems continuously tuned as legislation, workforce, and business evolve.
Three ways to run your payroll and HR operations. One right answer for your business.
The question isn't just which platform. It's who operates it. Different organisations need different operating models. We help you choose the one that genuinely fits, and we deliver the one you select.
Self-Managed
Your team operates payroll and HR on your chosen platform. Core Software advises on selection, implementation, integration, compliance, and optimisation, but day-to-day operational control stays entirely with your team.
Vendor-Managed
For Deel Local Payroll clients, Deel's own in-country payroll specialist team handles payroll operations directly, through Deel's Managed tier. Core Software provides the strategic advisory and systems integration wrap around the service.
Core Software-Operated
Our Managed Payroll & HR Operations service. We run payroll and aligned HR operations end-to-end on Deel Local Payroll as the underlying platform, with Core Software as the accountable operational partner holding the client relationship.
Not sure which model fits your business? That's the advisory conversation we'd start with. We'll recommend the model that genuinely suits you, not the one that most benefits us.
Managed Payroll & HR Operations, operated by Core Software.
For organisations that want more than a platform partner (who want Core Software to own the operation end-to-end), our Managed Payroll & HR Operations service delivers a single accountable relationship across payroll processing and aligned HR operational administration, using Deel Local Payroll as the underlying platform.
You get the commercial and compliance benefits of a world-class local payroll platform, the operational certainty of a dedicated service team, and the advisory depth of a Core Software relationship, all under one delivery agreement.
What the service covers
Payroll Operations
- End-to-end payroll processing (monthly, bi-weekly, or weekly, as your business runs)
- Gross-to-net calculations with real-time validation
- Statutory submissions and compliance reporting per jurisdiction
- Payroll reconciliation and general ledger posting
- Third-party payments, off-cycle adjustments, and retrospective corrections
- Year-end processing, tax certificates, and audit support
HR Operations
- Employee lifecycle administration: new hires, terminations, transfers, role and pay changes
- Onboarding process administration and document management
- Leave, roster, and attendance administration support
- Administration of Deel Local Payroll HR modules, including Workforce Planning and Performance Management
- Employee self-service configuration and support
Systems & Integration
- Deel Local Payroll platform operation
- Integration with your ERP, time-and-attendance, and HCM systems
- Data integrity monitoring and reporting
- Change management for configuration updates
Advisory Access
- Dedicated Service Delivery Manager
- Regular executive reporting and review cadence
- Included advisory time for compliance, legislative, and strategic questions
- Escalation path to Core Software's senior advisory team
Commercial model
Per-employee-per-month model that scales with your workforce. Transparent commercial structure with no annual licence lock-in.
SLA-backed operational performance covering processing accuracy, submission timeliness, issue resolution, and reporting.
Advisory access is included in the service, not priced as a separate engagement. Strategic questions travel with the relationship.
Annual service agreement with rolling renewal. No multi-year lock-in required.
Want to discuss whether Managed Payroll & HR Operations is the right fit for your business? Book a thirty-minute conversation and we'll walk through your operation, your complexity, and your options.
Our approach.
Whether we're advising, implementing, or operating, the discipline is consistent.
Diagnose
We start by understanding your operation, your workforce, your jurisdictions, your systems, and the decisions you're facing. No assumptions. No pre-packaged answers.
Design
We design the right solution for your business, platform configuration, integration architecture, compliance framework, and the right delivery model.
Deliver
We deliver, either as implementation partner, operations partner, or both. The delivery discipline is consistent whether you're going self-managed, vendor-managed, or Core Software-operated.
Optimise
We stay close. Legislation shifts. Your business grows. New regions open. Our job is to keep your payroll and HR systems continuously fit for the business you're becoming, not the business you were when the contract was signed.
Sectors and businesses we work with.
Our payroll and HR systems work is grounded in the same resource-sector depth that runs through the rest of Core Software, but extends across any business where workforce complexity outruns the systems behind it.
Mining and Resources
ASX-listed miners, contract mining operators, and mining services businesses, with remote workforces, FIFO rosters, and operations that often span Australia, Africa, and beyond.
Multi-Region Enterprises
Manufacturing, FMCG, retail, professional services, and technology businesses operating across Africa, the UK, Brazil, and the UAE, where multi-jurisdiction payroll is a weekly reality.
Fast-Growing Mid-Market
Businesses scaling past the point where their original payroll and HR systems can cope, where the wrong next decision locks in the wrong systems for another five years.
Private Equity-Backed Portfolios
Portfolio companies preparing for integration, transformation, or exit, where clean payroll and HR systems materially affect valuation and operational readiness.
Why leaders choose us for payroll and HR.
Independent on platform, accountable on delivery
Vendor-agnostic when you need advice on platform choice. Fully accountable when you engage us to run the operation. The two postures are deliberately separate and equally committed.
Strategic partner for Deel Local Payroll
Our flagship technology partnership gives us unmatched depth on local payroll across Africa, the UK, Brazil, and the UAE, without restricting our advisory independence on platforms we don't partner with.
Advisory bundled with operations
Clients on our Managed Payroll & HR Operations service get advisory access as part of the relationship, not priced as a separate engagement. Strategic questions travel with the operation.
Decades of senior leadership and systems experience
Our team has designed, implemented, and operated payroll and HR systems across mining, resources, manufacturing, and services businesses through multiple cycles. You get the judgement that only comes from time in the sector.
Three ways to work with us.
Project-Based Advisory
Defined scope, fixed fee, clear outcome. Ideal for a specific decision (platform selection, compliance audit, implementation, or remediation) that needs independent, experienced advice inside a defined timeframe.
Ongoing Advisory Retainer
A trusted advisory relationship with regular executive touchpoints and continuity across multiple decisions. Ideal for leaders navigating sustained workforce systems change or multi-region complexity.
Managed Payroll & HR Operations
Our fully operated service, delivered on Deel Local Payroll. Per-employee-per-month commercial model with integrated advisory access. For businesses that want a single accountable partner running the operation.
Every engagement (advisory, retainer, or operated service) starts the same way: with a thirty-minute conversation. No cost, no commitment, no sales pitch.
Let's talk about the systems behind your workforce.
Whether you're evaluating a new payroll platform, trying to make sense of multi-region compliance, looking to hand over operations, or pressure-testing whether your current partner is still the right one, a thirty-minute conversation with a Core Software advisor is the fastest way to find out where we can help.
Book a Payroll & HR Advisory ConversationOr reach us directly: info@coresoftware.au | +61 448 520 239 | Perth, Western Australia