Payroll that runs on time and stands up to scrutiny.
Pay runs prepared accurately, entitlements maintained properly, superannuation calculated on schedule and Single Touch Payroll reporting submitted through your system — with the payroll numbers reconciled back to your accounts rather than left to drift.
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What our payroll services cover.
Payroll goes wrong quietly and gets corrected expensively. These are the parts of the cycle we take responsibility for.
Pay run processing
Cycles prepared from your approved timesheets, with gross pay, PAYG and deductions calculated for your review.
Starters and leavers
New employees set up with tax and super details recorded, and leavers processed through to a final pay.
Leave and entitlements
Annual, personal and long service leave accruals maintained so balances stay current and ready for year-end.
Superannuation
Super guarantee calculated each cycle and prepared for your authorisation through your clearing house.
Single Touch Payroll
STP event reporting prepared and submitted through your payroll platform each cycle, on your instruction.
Termination payments
Final pay calculated including unused leave, with technical tax treatment confirmed by your registered tax agent.
Payroll reconciliation
Wages, PAYG and superannuation reconciled to the general ledger each period, so payroll and accounts agree.
Payroll reporting
Labour cost reported by department, project or cost centre, alongside the rest of your numbers.
Award settings are incorporated where these have been confirmed by you or an appropriately qualified adviser. Interpretation of award coverage and employee classification remains a matter for your business and its advisers — our role is to apply the agreed settings accurately and consistently, and to raise it with you when something in the data does not look right.
Outsource payroll without handing over control.
Payroll is usually outsourced because it has become a single point of failure — one person knows how it works, it has to happen on a fixed date whatever else is going on, and mistakes surface weeks later in someone's pay.
We run the cycle to an agreed calendar with defined cut-offs and a documented approval step. Nothing is released until you have signed off the run, and the result is reconciled back to your ledger rather than sitting in a separate system.
Book a consultationWorried something in your payroll is not quite right?
Payroll problems rarely announce themselves. Accrual settings that were never checked, super calculated on the wrong earnings base, or allowances set up once and never revisited can run for years before anyone notices.
We can review your current payroll setup and reporting, tell you what we find, and set out what it would take to correct — working with your adviser where the question is one of interpretation rather than process.
Payroll support for businesses where getting it wrong is not an option.
The right arrangement depends on how complex your workforce is and how much key-person risk sits in the current setup.
Payroll is being squeezed in around everything else
With a handful of staff it feels manageable until a termination, a leave balance query or a change in hours makes it anything but. We take the cycle off you entirely.
One person understands how your payroll works
If payroll stops when that person is on leave or leaves the business, the exposure is real. We can run it, or sit alongside them as documented backup.
Multiple sites, shifts or entitlement structures
Where pay conditions vary across roles, locations or agreements, the risk is in the detail. We apply the agreed settings consistently and reconcile the result every cycle.
What we check every cycle.
Most payroll problems are configuration problems that nobody went back to. These are the areas we look at as part of the regular cycle rather than once a year.
This is process assurance, not legal or taxation advice. Where a question turns on interpretation — award coverage, employee classification, or the tax treatment of a particular payment — we will say so and work alongside your registered agent or employment adviser.
We never take over a payroll cold.
A payroll transition that goes wrong is visible to every employee on payday. We run a parallel cycle first so differences are found before the handover, not after it.
Review the current payroll
We go through your payroll file, pay settings, accrual configuration and recent runs to understand how the current setup actually behaves and where attention is needed.
Run one cycle in parallel
We prepare a run alongside your existing process and compare the two line by line. Anything that differs is resolved with you before we take responsibility for the cycle.
Operate the cycle
Changes collected to a fixed cut-off, the run prepared for your approval, reporting submitted on your instruction, and the period reconciled back to the ledger.
Your platform, your history, your access.
We work inside the payroll system you already use — Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks or another platform. Your employee records, pay history and reporting stay where they are, and you keep full access throughout.
Where the current configuration is the thing creating the work — pay items that should be templated, timesheet data being rekeyed by hand, approvals happening over email — we will recommend practical improvements and agree the scope with you before changing anything.
Book a consultationPayroll with accounting discipline behind it.
Payroll is often treated as an administrative task, which is why errors sit undetected. Treated properly it is a control problem: amounts calculated to a defined method, approved by someone other than the person who prepared them, and reconciled back to the accounts every period.
That is how we run it. Payroll sits inside the same accounting and finance capability as the rest of your numbers, so the wages, PAYG and superannuation in your ledger agree with what the payroll system says — and anyone reviewing them later can follow the trail.
In a previous engagement, our principal's review of reconciliations and financial controls identified financial irregularities exceeding $1 million. Segregation of duties and independent review are not paperwork — they are what stops payroll becoming the place problems hide.
Payroll questions.
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Book a consultation01Do you pay our staff and superannuation directly?
No. Payment of wages and superannuation remains with you. We prepare the pay run, you approve it, and payment is made from your own accounts through your banking and clearing house arrangements.
02Who is responsible for award interpretation?
Award coverage and employee classification are decisions for your business and its advisers. We apply the settings you or an appropriately qualified adviser have confirmed, apply them consistently, and raise anything in the data that looks inconsistent with them.
03How long does it take to hand payroll over?
We start with a review of the current setup and at least one parallel run before taking responsibility for the cycle, so the timing follows your pay frequency and the condition of the existing file. We will give you a clear timeline once the initial review is done.
04What happens when our payroll person is away?
Cover is one of the main reasons businesses engage us. Because the process is documented and runs to a fixed calendar, the pay cycle does not depend on one individual being available. We can take the function on entirely, or sit alongside your existing person as documented backup.
05Can you work with our existing payroll software?
Yes. We work inside your existing platform, whether that is Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks or another system, so your employee records and pay history stay where they are and you keep access throughout.
06What do payroll services cost?
Our fees are based on the volume and complexity of the work, including employee numbers, pay frequency, the number of entities and how varied your pay conditions are. Ongoing payroll is generally provided for an agreed monthly fee, while review and correction work is quoted separately following an initial review.
Make payroll the thing you stop thinking about.
Tell us how your payroll runs today — how many employees, which platform, who prepares it and what happens when they are away. We will review the current position and set out how we would take it on.
We reply to every enquiry directly — no call centre, no sales script.