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☛ Tell me about yourself?
☛ Why did you leave your last job?
☛ What is your greatest weakness?
☛ What experience do you have in Payroll field?
☛ What are key tasks for Payroll position?
☛ What are top 3 knowledge/top 3 skills for Payroll position?
☛ What are KRAs/output of Payroll position?
☛ How to measure/appraise your Payroll position?
☛ What do you know about this company?
☛ Describe two or three major trends in your Payroll field?
☛ Did you choose this profession/field?
☛ What tertiary qualifications have you attained that related to Payroll position?
☛ What is the most recent skill you have learned that related to Payroll position?
☛ What do you do to stay current with provincial, federal, state, municipal regulations?
☛ A payroll clerk often has to face employees ire due to a payroll error. How would you handle such a situation
☛ Define payroll. Mention the various payroll procedures conducted regularly for updating the payroll database?
☛ What are monitoring methods for Payroll activities?
☛ Describe ISO 9001 for Payroll?
☛ What made you choose to apply to Payroll position?
☛ Tell me about your last position and what you did?
☛ What do you know about the Payroll position?
☛ What have you done to improve your Payroll knowledge in the last year?
☛ What have you learned from mistakes on the Payroll job?
☛ What was the most complicated payroll you are responsible for?
☛ State the payroll principles and standards defined to work and maintain an organizations payroll system.
☛ Name the payroll software you can access? Do you have knowledge of some accounting software as well?
☛ Whats your experience level with Microsoft Excel and access?
☛ 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.
☛ 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 are some of the most important reports you have written? How difficult were they to write? Why? What reactions did they get?
☛ Describe the employment laws that affect your work?
☛ Please tell us something about payroll tracking, reconciliation and reporting.
☛ Please rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 on your data entry skills and general math and book keeping skills.
☛ Are you willing to work overtime or off-shift during emergency or special situations like auditing, financial year-end etc?
☛ What were the challenges you faced in payroll operations while following either company or government policies?
☛ What kind of training and certification, do you have related to payroll?
☛ Tell me about a time when you took disciplinary action against an employee. How did you decide what to do?
☛ How do you monitor your departments productivity or performance as a Payroll Administrator? Give some examples.
☛ What training or certification program have you gone through in this field?
☛ Do you have adequate technical knowledge of the computer software programmes and applications that will be required in your work?
☛ What do you know about the regulatory standards, policies and procedures of payroll?
☛ What are methods that are used to manage Payroll?
☛ How to maintain Payroll activities?
☛ What are common risks for Payroll? And how to face?
☛ Describe steps to manage Payroll?
☛ How to measure performance of Payroll activities?
☛ Describe your experience with the administration of electronic timekeeping.
☛ 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?
☛ Explain your role with payroll administration. Discuss the nature of problems generally occurred during the payroll record submission?
☛ What do you understand from employers social security, compensation payments and payroll liabilities? Discuss the relationship between these three entities.
☛ Tell us the formula for calculating provincial income and social security taxes.
☛ How do you make sure that employee records are entered and accurately and on time?

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