Occupation payroll clerk

Payroll clerks compile and maintain employee payroll data, calculate wages and prepare payments.

Tasks

• Compile employee time, production and payroll data from time sheets and other records.
• Verify, calculate and update payroll information, such as attendance, hours worked, overtime, shift payments, commissions, pay adjustments and increases, to payroll records.
• Update employee information, such as new staff, exemptions, transfers and resignations, to payroll records.
• Calculate and post employee wages, benefits, deductions and voluntary contributions.
• Process holiday, sick and maternity pay and expenses.
• Process and issue employee payments and statements of earnings and deductions following schedules, and compile the schedules.
• Pay the social organisations such as the Social Security.
• Review payroll information to detect and reconcile discrepancies.
• Issue and record adjustments to pay related to previous errors or retroactive increases.
• Provide information and all necessary certificates to employees and employer on payroll matters, tax issues, benefit plans and collective agreement provisions.
• Keep informed about changes in tax and deduction laws that apply to the payroll process.

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