The learning opportunities available to UKG Pro® users are as abundant as the features that come with your solution. Keeping up with the latest releases on top of learning to maximize the solution’s capabilities fully can sometimes be challenging. You may wonder where to begin your learning journey, which is why we’re introducing the UKG Pro Learning Lineup.
The Learning Lineup recommends UKG University™ courses that will help set you up for success in understanding and using your UKG Pro solution to its full capability. Backed by our Learning team experts, they help inform this series with the courses you should focus on so that you’re not overwhelmed when you enter the abundant UKG University Course Catalog.
For our first lineup, it’s all about payroll. We know processing efficient and accurate payrolls are critical to our payroll professionals, and training is the best way to achieve it. The courses highlighted below are live, virtual trainings facilitated by an experienced instructor in a small setting designed to provide payroll administrators with the knowledge and skills they need to process payroll utilizing their UKG Pro solution. These courses offer you the opportunity to learn from an instructor, watch detailed demonstrations, complete hands-on activities, and ask questions along the way. And, if you can’t attend the live, virtual event, recordings are also available for your convenience. Let’s get started!
060 Payroll Processing: View/Edit Payroll and Reports
Duration: 3 hours.
Course Type: Live Virtual
Becoming proficient at any task starts with the basics; with this training, you’ll learn the building blocks of payroll. This course provides the knowledge and skills to complete streamlined payroll processing utilizing the UKG Pro portal. It includes training on using the Payroll Gateway to process simple and complex payrolls that require time imports from alternate sources. In addition, you’ll learn how to complete payroll tasks such as creating additional pays and instant checks, and editing payroll results, including employee earnings, deductions, and taxes.
060-01 Payroll Processing: Import and Submit Data
Duration: 2 hours
Course Type: Live Virtual
This training will build on the previous learning course and strengthen your payroll processing skills, giving you a refresher on using the Payroll Gateway to process payrolls requiring time imports. You’ll also learn how to import time for multiple pay groups and process payroll for numerous pay groups simultaneously.
060-02 Payroll Processing: Balancing
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Course Type: Live Virtual
Learn to identify potential issues with your payroll before it’s too late. Beginning with an overview of available tax and wage reports, we’ll show you how these reports can help you balance your payrolls. Then, we’ll discuss troubleshooting and in-depth analysis and error resolution, including how to access standard reports to balance when using payroll balancing worksheets. By the end of this class, you should feel confident knowing how to verify all wage and tax amounts have been posted correctly and your payroll taxes are in balance.
270 Payroll Topics: Off-Cycle, Retroactive Pay and Pending Pay
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Course Type: Live Virtual
If you’d like a focused look at some of the more complex areas of payroll, including off-cycle payrolls and retroactive pay, then this training is for you. This course teaches you how to import data from third-party vendors to update employee earnings, deductions, and tax amounts in your UKG Pro solution. You’ll learn how to configure earnings in your payroll system to calculate retroactively and process and submit retroactive employee payments. We’ll also review essential pending pay tasks, like submitting pending pay earnings and deductions in your solution. Plus, we’ll cover how to handle adjustments and show you what areas in your UKG Pro solution are affected by voiding payments and creating instant checks versus when you make these adjustments on regular pay documents.
270-01 Payroll Topics: Manage Reversals and Adjustments
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Course Type: Live Virtual
Although a perfect payroll is always the goal, sometimes things happen. And when they do, it helps to be well versed in reversals and adjustments. That’s where this course comes in. During the training, you’ll gain the skills and knowledge to feel comfortable entering reversals and adjustments, verifying the adjustments were made correctly, and reporting on any adjusted tax liabilities. You’ll also learn how to notify the UKG Pro Payment Services Tax Filing team of new adjustments for each quarter and each company, if applicable.
The learning courses highlighted today are just the beginning, so keep an eye on your inbox for the next UKG Pro Learning Lineup coming soon!