A payslip is a trust statement
Accuracy and timeliness say more about an organisation’s integrity than any poster on a wall.
Treat payroll like a critical control environment: separation of duties; maker-checker; audit trails on master-file changes; reconciliations that someone senior actually inspects.
Run periodic ghost-employee sweeps and validate banking details against identity data.
Watch the red flags: off-cycle payments that cluster by manager, “temporary” allowances that never end, benefits with opaque eligibility rules.
Finally, capture and fix root causes—policy ambiguity, access rights, or manual workarounds—so errors don’t reappear in new costumes.
People forgive honest mistakes; they don’t forgive patterns.
Your payroll tells them which you are.
If you’re improving your payroll environment or planning a review, contact Duja Consulting — we can help assess, design, and implement the right controls for a resilient payroll function.
