Roles · Accounting and bookkeeping

AI payroll officer

Verifies attendance and hours worked, computes wages and deductions, and prepares period-end reports for the business payroll.

Leah Chen“I compute wages and deductions and enter the data.”An example character, not a real person.
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Payroll officer · What it does

Three tasks it takes off your hands

  1. Compute wages and deductions and enter data into computers.
  2. Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments and post information.
  3. Prepare and balance period-end reports and reconcile issued payrolls.
Where these come from

The tasks of “Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks” (O*NET 43-3051.00), as O*NET lists them:

  • Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.
  • Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.
  • Prepare and balance period-end reports, and reconcile issued payrolls to bank statements.

Payroll officer · Tools and industries

It works in the tools you already use

  • Kronos Workforce Timekeeper
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Workday software
  • Intuit QuickBooks

Industries it fits

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Role facts from O*NET 31.0 Database (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), CC BY 4.0) and ANZSCO 2022 (Australian Bureau of Statistics, CC BY 4.0), written in our words. Sources and credits