Emergency payroll cover when your payroll person has gone
Payroll Experts Australia takes over your pay run at short notice. We document your process and run the payroll in your own system, for employers of 100 or more staff.
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What Counts As A Payroll Emergency
Your payroll person has resigned and the notice period is short.
Nobody left knows the process. The handover never happened.
Your payroll specialist is on unplanned leave and a pay run is due.
You need cover while you recruit a replacement.
The process sits with one person and it is not written down.
Your payroll team is short-staffed through a peak period.
A temp was placed and cannot run the pay run without supervision.
A pay run needs taking over mid-cycle.
Since 1 July 2026 a late pay run also puts super at risk
Employers must now pay super at the same time as salary or wages, and the contribution has to reach the employee’s fund within 7 business days. Additional charges apply when it does not. (Fair Work Ombudsman)
A delayed pay run used to be corrected in the next cycle. It now carries a super deadline with it.
Payroll Experts Australia works with internal payroll teams at large government organisations, major brands and growing businesses, across the payroll, time and attendance and human capital management platforms in common use in Australia.
Three Steps To The Next Pay Run
The documentation
A consultant works through your process and records the steps, the pay rules and the manual workarounds. The documentation, not the consultant, is what carries the process.
The pay run
Our consultant runs the payroll in your system, under your process, with your team keeping its access. No data is migrated and no new system is implemented.
The handback
The support stops when your own payroll capability is back. There is no minimum term.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from a temp service?
A temp service supplies a person and the training is yours to do, which means a ramp-up period and a limit on what they can take on.
We document your process first. That documentation is what our consultant runs the payroll from.
How is this different from outsourcing my payroll?
Outsourcing moves your payroll onto the provider’s systems and processes and commits you for a term.
This runs on your system, under your process, with your team keeping its access. It ends when you end it.
Can you help if the pay run is this week?
Possibly. It depends on your system, how much of your process is already written down and when the pay run falls.
Call 1300 287 213 and we will tell you on that call whether we can take it.
How much does it cost?
Pricing depends on how many payroll specialists you need, how many days a week and for how long.
You pay for the time you use and there is no minimum term, where a temp normally expects a full-time placement of at least three to six months. For short-term cover that is where the cost difference sits.
The service is built for organisations with 100 or more employees and scales to workforces of several thousand. It covers a gap rather than replacing a permanent arrangement.
Are you familiar with our payroll system?
Our consultants have worked across the payroll, time and attendance and human capital management platforms in common use in Australia, including Dayforce, Workday, ADP, Aurion, UKG, Preceda, Micropay and Employment Hero.
Name yours on the call and we will tell you straight away.
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Our Payroll Advisory and Compliance Services are a one-stop solution for all your payroll needs. Our comprehensive services include Payroll Health Checks, ensuring the accuracy and compliance of your payroll processes and systems, identifying areas for improvement. Count on us for a seamless Payroll Compliant Audit to provide spot checks of your historical payroll and identify potential areas of risk. Then remedy those finding via our Payroll Remediation Services.
Trust us with your payroll advisory needs, and experience smooth operations and peace of mind.
We partner with you to take your projects from the beginning through to accomplishment. We can also jump in along the way to give you the project assurance that key artifacts have been designed to drive compliance, best practice and alignment to your future state processes. This ensures that your project stays on track and potential bumps along the way have been mitigated against.
Our record of achievement across many high-profile and high-risk projects and recoveries qualifies us to know the right formula for the delivery of your project. We can also support you across the entire project lifecycle, utilising our refined skills in Business Analysis, Test management all the way to Change Management driving adoption throughout the organisation.
Project Delivery
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A first-of-its-kind approach and technology unlike any other, Agreement Visualisation helps your organisation take back control, ensure internal alignment for one of your most critical functions, and helps support long-term success.
Agreement Visualisation
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No business is the same and as such, no engagement is ever the same. We actively listen to tailor a unique service and support options grounded in our many years of experience to help you reach your project goals, mitigate risk and ultimately, have confidence in paying your people correctly.
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Scott Quinn
Call 1300 287 213
Tell us where the pay run is and what has happened. We will tell you on that call whether we can take it.
If we are a good fit we will set out the scope, the cost and who is on it. If not we will say so and point you somewhere useful.
No cost and no obligation for the call.