Payroll, payroll system and payroll processing system

It is to be noted that the terms payroll system and payroll processing system are often used indistinctly to refer to a computer system which processes payroll.

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Payroll systems used by various UN system organizations

The payroll function is not a mission critical activity for the United Nations system, although the sensitivity of timely and accurate payroll results makes it a high visibility function.

Although this study is focused on payroll processing systems, payroll should not be seen as an isolated software application, as it heavily interfaces with human resources management systems (HRMS) and financial information systems.

Some organizations have expressed their concerns about confidentiality issues regarding the provision of payroll processing services by another United Nations system organization.

The system migration from Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) was smooth, and payroll is now being successfully processed.

Some agencies have not yet finished the migration of payroll operations and still run their own system.

This should not be a problem to outsource payroll services is a common practice in the private sector, more sensitive to confidentiality issues than the United Nations system where salary scales are public.

Offshoring means relocating non core activities to low cost areas while maintaining the activity within the organization.

The payment was cleared by Payroll Section on the grounds that no clear instruction to stop processing of the claim was received.

Business cases are being developed for, inter alia, payroll by the ICC.

The outsourcing of payroll processing could be either internal within the United Nations system where some organizations would act as service providers for others, or external in which some private or public service providers would deliver payroll processing services.

(c) No. of staff processed on payrolls 13 531 14 718

Organizations planning to purchase a new payroll system have now a choice, either to buy a new one or to in source payroll delivery using one of the United Nations organizations as a payroll service provider in both cases there is an upfront investment.

The report examines payroll service delivery in different organizations in order to ascertain major obstacles and to develop recommendations for future improvement of payroll systems and processes.

The United Nations core staff will be back up for payroll functions and serve as a necessary check and balance within payroll.

Finance Budget Clerk (Payroll Unit) (GS 4)

Similar action for Release 4 (Payroll) should be expedited.

Hence, the UNDP office in Copenhagen now includes a shared service centre providing global human resources administration and payroll services.

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Finally, specific requirements in this respect should be dealt with in the context of the technical working groups to be established and regulated through a mandatory contract or memorandum of understanding between the client organization and the selected payroll service provider.

The Board was informed that systems development studies were part of the systems analysis and design process, which was carried out in cooperation with the user department, and that system documentation of the accounting and payroll systems were part of the accounting system processing and user manual as well as the payroll system processing and user manual.

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The Board notes that the submitted draft service level agreement regarding central services for the payroll function will need to be revised as it did not specify the specific control processes that UNDP is to undertake to provide UNOPS with assurance that the payroll was valid, accurate and complete.

Audit of payroll

The current payroll service delivery environment is the product of an uncoordinated approach, heavily influenced by organization unique interpretation of common rules and regulations.

Establish leader organizations or common service entities, which can provide payroll services, on a fee or other financial basis, to those agencies that have old and antiquated systems Harmonize, simplify and standardize the application across the United Nations system of the common staff rules and regulations relating to payroll and allowances and, Report back to the General Assembly on the implementation status of this recommendation at its sixty second session.

Although no formal definition could be found for payroll system the association of both terms (payroll and system) suggests a method or procedure by which the employees of an organization are paid.

The United Nations system operates today about 17 different payroll processing systems.

The number of payroll systems and providers has now officially been reduced to four.

The Organization has paid monetary awards to applicants solely because of the delay in the appeals process.

Employees are paid biweekly and agencies pay on average US 120 per employee per year to the payroll service provider.

Data processing services software

These leader organizations and or common service entities, such as the International Computing Centre (ICC), could offer payroll services to those organizations interested in their specific solutions.

Phase 1 Consolidation of current payroll systems into several groups of leading organizations or common service entities, acting as payroll service providers (internal to the United Nations system).