Payroll Clerk

Collects the inputs, runs the payroll, reconciles it against last month, and puts it in front of you before anybody gets paid.

Monthly payroll processing 32 systems From R6 500 / month Up to 250 employees a month included

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What the Payroll Clerk actually does

The whole job, in the order it happens — not a feature list.

1

Collects the inputs

Gathers timesheets, leave, overtime, commission, deductions, new starters and terminations from wherever they live — the HR system, a shared spreadsheet, an inbox — and chases the managers who have not sent theirs.

2

Loads them

Enters the inputs into SimplePay, PaySpace or Sage 300 People, validating each one against the employee master as it goes, so a bad line is caught on the way in.

3

Runs it and proves it

Runs the payroll and reconciles it line by line against last month, with an explanation for every variance — a raise, a bonus, a termination, more overtime. Anything it cannot explain, it flags.

4

Puts it in front of you

Presents the variance report and the exceptions, and stops. No payment file is released, and no payslip is sent, until a named person signs off.

5

Pays and posts

Loads the payment batch to the bank for release, distributes payslips, posts the payroll journal to the ledger, and hands the EMP201 figures to the Tax & Compliance Clerk.

6

Files the records

Keeps payslips, the payroll register, UIF declarations and the statutory records filed against the period, ready for the EMP501 reconciliation and for an audit.

What it brings to you

Payroll is the one place where being wrong is not recoverable by a correcting journal, so this role is deliberately the most cautious of the five.

  • Every payroll run, before payment — without exception
  • A net pay that moves more than your tolerance against last month
  • A change of bank account on an existing employee
  • A terminated employee still appearing on the run
  • A duplicate identity number or bank account across employees
  • Leave taken beyond the balance available
  • A new employee whose details are incomplete

What it puts on your dashboard

A digital worker you cannot measure is one you cannot trust. Every run is logged, and the numbers below are reported without being asked for.

  • Payroll cost by department, month on month
  • Every variance against last month, with its explanation
  • Inputs still outstanding, and which manager owes them
  • Overtime and leave trends
  • Exceptions raised, and what was done about each
  • A sign-off record naming who approved which run, and when

The systems it works in

32 pre-built connections, ready on day one. Where a system publishes an API, the digital worker uses it directly from the cloud.

Payroll systems

People data

Ledgers

Statutory

Banks and pay

Where inputs come from

And the systems with no API at all

Desktop payroll packages and bank payment portals with no API — driven through their own screens by the bot on your machine.

This is the part a cloud-only tool cannot do. The Automize bot runs on your own machine, so anything a person can open, it can work in — the desktop accounting package, the bank portal, the supplier site with no integration.

Where it runs, and what never leaves

On your machine

The bot is installed where the work happens, so it can reach the systems that never got an API.

Credentials stay put

Passwords live in your operating system's own keychain and never sync to us. We hold the steps, not the secrets.

POPIA and GDPR by design

Client financial data is processed locally. Servers are in AWS Ireland and hold process definitions and execution logs.

Every step audited

Step-by-step logs, screenshots and timestamps for every run — and a record of who approved what.

Questions about the Payroll Clerk

No. It prepares the payroll and the payment batch and stops. Someone with the authority to do so reviews the variance report and releases the payment. That gate is not configurable away.
It stops and asks. A changed bank account on an existing employee is the single most common payroll fraud in the country, so it is treated as an exception every time, even when the change is legitimate.
Only the people who see it today. Payroll data stays on your machine — Automize holds the process definition, not the payroll.

Works well alongside

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Put a Payroll Clerk to work in 7 days

Three days of concentration a month, where a single transposed digit is somebody's rent.