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The Payroll Audit​
Robert Leach

Tags: Systems Thinking, Human Resources, Payroll, Organisational Leadership

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The Payroll Audit

Ensure that payroll is punctual, accurate, secure and used effectively as a management tool

Managing the payroll is often seen as a purely administrative function. But, aside from the legal and financial implications of payroll errors, payroll has significant implications for the organisation as a whole.

So this 6-Step audit first of all ensures that your payroll:
  • Meets all relevant legal requirements
  • Is secure against the risk of mistakes and internal and external fraud
  • Is managed efficiently and cost-effectively
  • Is supplied with timely and accurate information about all employees

​Then it goes on to consider the overall role of the payroll function and allows you to consider:
  • How the payroll function could be better integrated into the HR function
  • Whether any of the information held by the payroll function could usefully (and legally) be shared - e.g. flexible working schemes may hold two sets of time and attendance data
  • How far payment methods and timetabling meet employees' needs and the needs of the company
  • Whether payroll resources could be used by other departments at ‘quiet’ times
  • Whether payroll should be seen as a separate profit centre, and how it might earn revenue.