Payroll Interview Questions

Q:

What are payroll inputs? Does it changes from company to company?

Answer

Payroll input includes: Monthly,Qtrly,Yearly payments,adjustements, recoveries etc.
Inputs can be received either from HR or finance or both.

Current month New joinees, resignees recovery's etc.

Yes, inputs changes company to company

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What is exemption limit of gratuity

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It is Rs. 10,00,000 now.

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Q:

What is salary TDS?

Answer

Means whatever income any employee received from the organisation and on that tax to be deducted. (e.g. Gross salary, Overtime, Bonus, Incentives etc.)

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Q:

What is retropay?

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It is a process that recaculates the amount to pay an employess in the current period to account for retrospective changes that occurred in previous payroll periods.

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What Is Your Experience with Computerized Payroll Systems or Software?

Answer

Payroll systems accurately maintain data related to payroll processing. Familiarity with formal payroll systems and computerized software ensure the candidate has experience with current payroll technology.

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Q:

How higher management in an organization gets benefited by payroll reports?

Answer

Payroll reports gives information about the total 'cost to Company' for the Employee Salary, Benefits (Cash and Non-Cash), Taxes, Total Hours worked. 


All these information is helpful for the Management decisions.

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Q:

what is the job description of a payroll officer?

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1. Collection of attendance / collation of attendance


2. Scrutunizing the received attendance 


3. Calculating the salary as per the attendance, based on LOP received


4. Once the Payroll Processing is over, the gross salary should be checked with Master Data of salary.


5. Netpay has to request for bank transfers / cheque 


6. Need to take care of statutories like PF / ESI / PT / Income Tax


7. While processing salary, statutory deductions like PF / ESIC / PT and income tax calculations tobe taken care.


8. Arriving the salary structure for New Joiners


9. F&F tobe done for resigned employees


10. PF & ESI Nomination has to take care for the new joiners


11. PF Settlement / PF transfer has to take care for the resigned employees after 60days from the date of resignation.

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Q:

What is Payroll transaction?

Answer

Payroll Transaction is nothing but the calculation of salary for a month / week / day of an individual / group of employees depends upon the attendance / variable inputs / other benefits / salary component and generate the reports for IT / Statutory / PT payments.

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