Payroll Clerks

Payroll Clerks prepare payrolls and related records for employee salaries and statutory record-keeping purposes.

What the job involves

• Creating files for new employees to record payroll data

• Maintaining and updating files for existing employees to record information such as employee contact details, leave taken, overtime, promotions, transfers, tax deductions, health insurance payments and superannuation

• Preparing payroll data from time sheets and other payroll and personnel records

• Processing payment of wages and salaries

• Issuing and recording adjustments to employees' pay

• Interpreting industrial awards

• Providing information to employees and managers about payroll matters such as tax issues, benefits and deductions

• Finalising files and arrangements when employees retire, resign or transfer

• May be in involved in maintaining superannuation and other deduction and contribution records