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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Establish procedures for management of payroll
   • Establish procedures that ensure the confidentiality and security of payroll information
   • Ensure procedures guarantee substantiation of claims for allowances
   • Establish control measures to safeguard organisation’s financial resources in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements
   • Establish systems to ensure statutory obligations are met and records are kept for the period determined by government legislation
2. Prepare payroll data
   • Use nominated industrial awards, contracts and government legislation to calculate gross pay and annual salaries
   • Calculate statutory and voluntary deductions using government and employee documentation
   • Provide payroll data to payroll processor for calculation within designated timelines
3. Authorise payment of salaries
   • Check payroll, and authorise salaries and wages for payment in accordance with organisational policy and procedures
   • Reconcile salaries, wages and deductions in accordance with organisational policy and procedures
   • Deal with salary, wage and related enquiries in accordance with organisational policy and procedures
4. Administer salary records
   • Process declaration forms for new and existing employees in accordance with Australian Taxation Office requirements
   • Forward periodic deductions to nominated creditors within designated timelines
   • Prepare and dispatch payments to government authorities accurately and in accordance with relevant government legislation
   • Calculate and transcribe group tax amounts and make payments in accordance with taxation procedures
   • Prepare and reconcile employee group certificate amounts from salary records