Market Areas > Corporate Finance > Efficient Payroll

Maximizing Payroll’s Efficiency: Key Strategies To A Leaner, More Effective Department

Course Description:

Today’s payroll departments are expected to do more work in less time and still not sacrifice compliance or customer service.  Especially in turbulent times, it’s essential for you to accomplish the multitude of tasks that encompass running a payroll department more efficiently and effectively.  

Forget about “we’ve always done it this way” and discover how you can improve efficiencies and operational capabilities, reduce your workload, and help your payroll department achieve its full potential in this invaluable CCM audio conference.

By the end of this critical 75-minute session, you’ll know:

• How to maximize efficiency by concentrating on the basics of payroll
• Time records: Are we using too much time to audit or not enough?
• Form W-4: Are we processing valid forms or wasting time trying to get valid ones?
• Who is handling new hires for maximum efficiency?
• Payroll reconciliations: Are we using them effectively?
• Handling garnishments: Does our current method encompass both efficiency and compliance or neither?
• Staffing the Payroll Department
• How to create a first rate payroll department to ensure maximum efficiency
• Managing the staff effectively to keep them efficient
• Motivation and Moral—how to keep them both high
• Working with human resources and other departments to ensure payroll’s own efficiency is not affected by others
• Management Issues
• Fraud and its effect on the department’s performance
• Customer service can actually increase efficiency if used correctly
• Research needs—get the most out of limit resources in the fastest time
• Security basics—a secure department is an efficient department
• Payroll Systems
• Disaster recovery now
• Employee self service systems—do they make less work for the department
• Methods of paying employees—paper checks vs. plastic payroll cards: does it matter to efficiency?
  

Featured Faculty:

Vicki M. Lambert, CPP, Certified Payroll Manager, President and Academic Director, Vicki M. Lambert, LLC

Vicki M. Lambert, CPP, Certified Payroll Manager is President and Academic Director of Vicki M. Lambert, LLC a firm specializing in payroll education and training.  Ms. Lambert has a Bachelor’s degree, Magna Cum Laude in Business Administration and is a Certified Payroll Professional with over 29 years of multi-state payroll experience.

Ms. Lambert has lectured extensively throughout the United States on payroll administration and compliance issues for clients that include ADP, CCH Incorporated, Ceridian Employer Services, Fox Studios, County of Riverside, Sun Microsystems and others.  She has authored, co-authored or edited numerous payroll publications and newsletters.

Ms. Lambert is also the host of “Politically Payroll” a payroll centric radio program broadcast on KLAV 1230AM in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The show can also be accessed on the internet at www.klav1230am.com

MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE:

We're so confident you'll get what you want out of this conference that we'll refund every penny if you're not completely satisfied. No questions asked! It's 100% risk-free!

Pricing:

Unable to Attend?  Order the CD!
Your CD recording includes the complete audio conference presentation, audience Q&A and presentation materials.

APPROVED FOR RECERTIFICATION CREDIT:

HRCI - Receive 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.

Each CCM event presents a variety of information and is presented for each organization to develop its own approach and methodology.