Running payroll

Paying staff the right amount on time, with correct tax, deductions and records.

Good work shows: Updates starters, leavers and changes before the run; checks pay against the prior period; pays tax and deductions on time.

Running payroll is one of the finance and accounting skills on FinderK.

The job simulations and Skill Paths below include work that is checked for this skill. You do the work in an original fictional company and get feedback on it.

Job simulations

Check the overtime before payroll closes

Payroll assistant at Larkfield Care Homes

About 55 minutes. Included in Plus.

Payroll closes at noon tomorrow. Check a week of extra hours against timesheets, approvals and the policy, answer a worried colleague honestly, and give your manager the exceptions she must decide.

Skills: Check extra hours against timesheets, approvals and policy; Calculate normal and time and a half pay correctly; Explain held pay honestly to the person affected; Keep decisions within payroll authority and escalate the rest

Skill Paths

Become a Finance Assistant
Practise the core work of a finance assistant: testing expense claims, preparing allowable costs and checking payroll before it runs.
Become an HR Coordinator
Practise the core work of an HR coordinator: absence reviews, pay checks and training budgets.
Finance and Accounting Foundations
Build the core habits of a good finance assistant.
People and HR Foundations
Practise fair and careful people work.

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Check the overtime before payroll closes

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