HR TECH OUTLOOK8 APRIL 2019Dennis Danilewicz, Senior Director Disbursements Services, NYU Langone HealthByMore than Just a PAYCHECKDennis DanilewiczAcross from me sat an auditor preparing to perform the annual audit. Following her checklist she asked for printed registers for the year. It was apparent she had not considered the volume of printed material produced from paying 20,000+ employees biweekly. I explained that I had not printed payroll registers in over twenty years and the majority of payroll professionals today rely upon online access for information. I suggested payroll summaries if that would help but did not want to waste that much paper. I was also concerned about the security of the information left lying around in the audit room at night. Eventually, I was able to help her find a different method of obtaining the information. I began thinking about how the profession had changed since I first started over 30 years ago and the requirements of a modern payroll professional.At the start of my career, I reviewed paper timesheets for errors and inconsistencies. I would batch up these timesheets and bring them to the keypunch department where the information was then entered onto 80 column cards. Unfortunately, many people still imagine this sort of scenario when they think about a payroll department. For them, a person working in payroll is someone wearing green eye shades, hunched over a desk and manually In My Opinion
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