Payroll Management - Tips To Make Payroll Processing Easier And Error-Free
The best way to handle costly payroll errors is to prevent them. This 90-minute payroll management webinar gives tips that make processing easier and ways to verify every payroll variable before you send a final payroll to IT or an outside processor.
You'll learn to build efficient pre-processing checklists and a full-year calendar covering all pay frequencies, holidays and other dates that affect a cycle. You'll also create your own audit reports, use your vendor's reports, run a payroll preview, verify totals and build comparisons.
The session covers payroll ins and outs, including hires, terminations, leaves, pay increases, benefit deduction changes and employer payments.
- Build pre-processing checklists and a full-year payroll calendar
- Use pre- and post-processing, timekeeping and vendor reports
- Run and verify a payroll preview and compare totals
- Apply input controls and segregation of duties
- Track payroll changes for hires, terminations, leaves and deductions
- Coordinate with other units to keep payroll on schedule
- Yearly calendar dates
- Pre- and post-processing reports
- Importance of input controls
- Balancing, auditing and comparing payroll to prove accuracy
- Timekeeping reports
- Payroll preview verification
- Segregation of duties
- Communication with other units
- Tracking payroll changes
- Pay frequency audit
Whether you are new to payroll or experienced, simple tools such as a calendar, a few reports and good communication can keep payroll timely, accurate and less stressful.
You'll also get ideas for keeping a schedule and deploying your team. The session suits payroll associates, supervisors, managers, analysts and professionals, HR teams with payroll duties, and anyone closing out the payroll year and preparing year-end forms, in companies of any size.
- Payroll Associate
- Payroll Supervisor
- Payroll Manager
- Payroll Analysts
- Payroll Professionals
- Any other teams who must handle closing out payroll for the calendar year and preparing Year-end Forms
- Human Resources Teams – especially those with payroll responsibilities
Merle Capello is an experienced Payroll Professional who can manage, train and elevate team members, enhancing their skills so that they can be leveraged to benefit clients. Merle is a professional who works to improve processes, by additional knowledge and conforming to rules of compliance. She is also an experienced procedure and policy developer who works to leave a better team behind than the one she finds. Merle is a subject matter expert on compliance, payroll taxes, work rules and payroll best practices. Merle, offers consulting services for those who need a professional's advice and counsel. In her more than 25 years of experience spearheading the development, enhancement, and transfer of payroll and HRIS operations, Merle has learned to provide team members with the guidance and motivation to exceed objectives. Merle enjoys the challenge of implementation and organizational change, using her analytical skills and her knowledge base to make the most prudent decisions for the team and for her clients. Merle easily adapted to either running a department or advising a client on how best to run their department. She can write step-by-step directions for processes, if needed, or coach a team member to do so. Merle is also a longtime member of her professional organization, the American Payroll Association. She held Advanced Payroll Certification for over 25 years.
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