Effective Payroll Planning & Procedures

The payroll supervisor plays an essential role in the payroll department and
provides an important link between management and the payroll team. Ideally
the payroll supervisor should be technically experienced, organised and a good
team leader.
They must also be able to communicate at all levels and work under pressure.
This course is ideal for those new to the supervision role and for those responsible
for the payroll who need to ensure that effective payroll procedures are in place.

Course Programme:
• Fraud Prevention
– How to identify it and steps to take to prevent it

• Contingency planning
– How to review and put together an effective plan

• Overpayments of salary
– What are the correct procedures for recovering an overpayment from
an employee

• Written Procedures Manual
– Important tips to ensure that your Written Procedures Manual is effective

• Checklists for the payroll
– How to put together useful checklists to ensure that payroll is correct

• Monitoring errors on the payroll and remedial action

• Reconciliation
– How to reconcile the payroll and make any necessary adjustments

• Setting deadlines
– setting deadlines for the payroll and communicating this to employees and
heads of departments

• Bringing new members of the payroll team up to speed

• How to ensure that the payroll team are technically up to date

• Delegation
– The first steps to delegation of tasks

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