Payroll Assistant

☛ Define payroll. Mention the various payroll procedures conducted regularly for updating the payroll database?

☛ Name the payroll software you can access? Do you have knowledge of some accounting software as well?

☛ What’s your experience level with Microsoft Excel and access?

☛ Do you have adequate technical knowledge of the computer software programmes and applications that will be required in your work?

☛ How do you make sure that employee records are entered and accurately and on time?

☛ A payroll clerk often has to face employees’ ire due to a payroll error. How would you handle such a situation

☛ What are key tasks for Payroll…position?

☛ What made you choose to apply to Payroll…position?

☛ Describe steps to manage Payroll?

☛ How do you monitor your department’s productivity or performance as a Payroll Administrator? Give some examples.

☛ Tell us the formula for calculating provincial income and social security taxes.

☛ Do you have experience of handling typical payroll issues raised by the employees? If yes, tell us about your strategy to deal with such a situation?

☛ Payroll is run every two weeks, which means a lot of pressure to meet the deadline. When have you had to work under pressure?

☛ What were the challenges you faced in payroll operations while following either company or government policies?

☛ Please tell us something about payroll tracking, reconciliation and reporting.

☛ How to maintain Payroll activities?

☛ What are top 3 knowledge/top 3 skills for Payroll…position?

☛ What are KRAs/output of Payroll…position?

☛ What are methods that are used to manage Payroll?

☛ What do you know about the regulatory standards, policies and procedures of payroll?

☛ Are you willing to work overtime or off-shift during emergency or special situations like auditing, financial year-end etc?

☛ What kind of training and certification, do you have related to payroll?

☛ What were the challenges you faced in payroll operations while following either company or government policies?

☛ What were the challenges you faced in payroll operations while following either company or government policies?

☛ What are some of the most important reports you have written? How difficult were they to write? Why? What reactions did they get?

☛ Payroll is run every two weeks, which means a lot of pressure to meet the deadline. When have you had to work under pressure?

☛ Describe your experience with the administration of electronic timekeeping.

☛ How to measure performance of Payroll activities?

☛ Describe steps to manage Payroll?

☛ What training or certification program have you gone through in this field?

☛ Tell me about the most complicated report you have to prepare related to personnel. For example, over time, these, headcount, retirement contribution and so on.

☛ What was the most complicated payroll you are responsible for?

☛ Describe to me any payroll process that you have developed or revised?

☛ If an employee called in with a payroll complaint, how would you handle it?

☛ What have you done to improve your verbal communication skills?

☛ What is the largest payroll you have been in charge of?

☛ Give me examples of the payroll reports you have prepared.

☛ How do you keep updated on all the payroll rules and techniques?

☛ How does higher management benefit from payroll reports?

☛ Why are you interested in this position?

☛ We have 9 major union contracts, each with unique special pay items. How will you ensure that everything is paid correctly and on time?

☛ What is a fiscal year?

☛ What salary are you seeking?

☛ Can you explain when you would want to pay an employee through accounts payable rather than payroll?

☛ Have you had responsibility for state and federal tax payments?

☛ What are the payroll inputs?

☛ What is a general ledger?

☛ If you have done bookkeeping in the past for small businesses, tell me about your experience doing that.

☛ What experience do you have implementing a new payroll system?

☛ Describe to me your familiarity with the administration of 403b or 457 plans?

☛ How would you familiarize yourself with our payroll system?

☛ Tell me about the payroll forecasting you have been responsible for.

☛ Describe a typical payroll day from your past experiences.

☛ Do you plan to open up your own accounting or payroll firm?

☛ Define a bad employee.

☛ Each of our buildings has a designated payroll timekeeper that reports biweekly. Two reports are late. How do you approach this?

☛ Discuss your experience with payroll.

☛ There are times when we are placed under extreme pressure on the job. Tell about a time when you were under such pressure and how you handled it.

☛ What cost-cutting measure have you been in charge of implementing?

☛ Can you describe the use of forms W2, W4, and 941?

☛ What are the most important attributes a person should have for this position?

☛ What sorts of things have you done to become better qualified for your career?

☛ How did you get started in payroll?

☛ What is retro pay?

☛ What are the most important attributes a person should have for this position?

☛ What are your future plans with the company?

☛ Describe to me a difficult situation at work and how you diffused it.

☛ What information do you require before you approve payroll?

☛ We spend considerable time editing our time sheets to ensure no errors. How do you approach finding an error?

☛ What courses did you like the best in your preparation in accounting and payroll?

☛ Why are you interested in this position?