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Connecting Vanta & Employment Hero

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Written by Jaquez Hodo
Updated over a week ago

Automatically provision and de-provision users in Vanta using Employment Hero. Connecting this integration helps keep employee data current, ensures offboarding is handled promptly, and supports compliance tracking with minimal manual work.

Estimated setup time: Less than 8 minutes

How It Works

The Employment Hero integration syncs your employee data into Vanta in just a few clicks. Connecting your Employment Hero instance allows Vanta to automatically add new employees and remove departing ones—keeping your organization’s access and records up to date.

Use Cases

  • Employee data synchronization – Keep employee information up to date across both systems

  • Leave management integration – Sync approved leave requests for tracking availability

  • Organizational structure mapping – Sync department and cost center information

  • Data enrichment – Ensure Vanta has the latest employee details for compliance reporting

Requirements

  • Role and permissions

    • Must be a Vanta admin

    • Must be an Employment Hero admin (OAuth requires admin access)

  • Feature plan eligibility

    • Available on Growth and Scale plans and for GRC customers

  • External dependencies

    • Employment Hero OAuth integration must be enabled for your organization

  • Audit considerations

    • During an audit, consider setting a cutoff date to ensure employees offboarded in the audit period are tracked in Vanta

Connect the Integration

  • Navigate to Integrations in Vanta

  • Locate the Employment Hero integration

  • Select Connect

  • Click Connect Employment Hero

  • You’ll be redirected to Employment Hero to authorize the connection

    • Ensure you are logged in, or log in when prompted

    • You’ll see Vanta (non-SSO) listed under Single Sign On Organisations

    • The Authorised button should already be selected (grayed out)

    • Click Skip to continue

  • Review the permissions that Employment Hero will share with Vanta:

    • Read all employees belonging to a team

    • Read leave request details

    • Read all organizations you belong to

    • Read all teams belonging to an organization

    • Read all leave requests belonging to an organization

    • Read all employment history belonging to an employee

    • Read all employees belonging to an organization

    • Read employee details

  • Select Allow to approve the connection

  • You’ll be redirected back to Vanta. Your integration is now connected and ready for configuration, such as setting end date cutoffs

Permissions

Vanta only accesses the following data from your Employment Hero organization:

Vanta can view:

  • Employees (read only)

  • Teams (read only)

  • Organization (read only)

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