What’s the best way to avoid expensive and time-consuming errors in the payroll management process?
Why, avoid them, of course! In this webinar, you’ll learn tips that can help make payroll processing easier and methods to verify all your payroll variables before you commit a final payroll to your IT team or your outside processor!
You’ll learn: how to create the most efficient checklists for your pre-processing checks; the best way to create your calendar for a full year, encompassing all pay frequencies as well as holidays and days that will affect a specific cycle; how to create your own reports for audit purposes; as well as how to use your payroll vendor’s available reports for your best results. Running a payroll preview, verifying your totals, and creating a comparison — these are all strategies to be used to ensure that your payroll management process is as accurate as you can make it.
The webinar will touch on all aspects of payroll “ins” and “outs”. These include hires, terminations, leaves, pay increases, benefit deductions and changes, and employer payments.
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
Whether you’re new to payroll services or not, you can use tips that can help make payroll processing easier, more accurate, and less stressful. Using everyday tools like the calendar, some relatively simple reports, and a good communications process can ensure that your payroll process remains professional, timely and error-free.
The webinar will include ideas on how to maintain a schedule, how to deploy your team members, and how to keep your payroll process in HR painless. Regardless of the size of your company, you’ll be able to learn something about process improvement by taking this webinar!
AREA COVERED
- Yearly calendar dates
- Using pre- and post-processing reports
- Importance of input controls
- Balancing/auditing/comparing payroll for proof of accuracy
- Timekeeping reports
- Payroll preview verification
- Segregation of duties
- Communication with other units
- Payroll changes-tracking
- Pay frequency audit
WHO WILL BENEFIT?
- 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
Whether you’re new to payroll services or not, you can use tips that can help make payroll processing easier, more accurate, and less stressful. Using everyday tools like the calendar, some relatively simple reports, and a good communications process can ensure that your payroll process remains professional, timely and error-free.
The webinar will include ideas on how to maintain a schedule, how to deploy your team members, and how to keep your payroll process in HR painless. Regardless of the size of your company, you’ll be able to learn something about process improvement by taking this webinar!
- Yearly calendar dates
- Using pre- and post-processing reports
- Importance of input controls
- Balancing/auditing/comparing payroll for proof of accuracy
- Timekeeping reports
- Payroll preview verification
- Segregation of duties
- Communication with other units
- Payroll changes-tracking
- Pay frequency audit
- 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
Speaker Profile
Merle Capello
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 …
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