Workforce rules and employment tax laws are complicated. Along with increasingly complex payroll and data security regulations, businesses face significant challenges with payroll governance and compliance. And if mismanaged, your business may be exposed to significant monetary and reputational risk.
So that you can focus on growing your core business, we can help you to manage your payroll and tax compliance requirements.
Need help to manage your payroll function?
Find out how KPMG can help you manage your payroll and tax compliance function.
How KPMG Payroll Connect can help
Outsource your payroll services
Our comprehensive payroll outsourcing and tax compliance solution helps you:
- simplify and effectively manage complicated payroll and compliance issues
- understand the impact of complex legislation and regulatory change
- achieve industry-related insights and perspectives
- save time so you can focus on core business goals.
Benefit from our payroll specialist approach
Receive specialist support for your day-to-day payroll needs and broader payroll strategy, including:
- assistance with payroll compliance and assurance reviews
- employment tax and industrial relations support
- immigration advice
- specialist payroll staff or secondment services
- guidance through business transformation
- payroll advisory services.
Receive value from our flexible cloud-based technology solution
Have a payroll technology solution that is tailored to suit your payroll needs to:
- navigate complex technology ecosystems
- improve employee user experience
- seamlessly integrate employee data
- deliver high quality payroll outcomes.
KPMG's Payroll Services
Payroll outsourcing and tax compliance services
Outsourcing services, including end-to-end payroll process outsourcing, for:
- Australian payroll
- New Zealand payroll
- International assignees payroll
- Contractors payroll
- Global payroll.
End-to-end payroll and tax compliance administration services include:
- administration of the payroll process, including gross to net calculation in line with local legislation
- preparation of payment files to employees, third parties and regulators
- superannuation management including Payday super
- end-to-end administration of payroll compliance obligations such as payroll tax, workers’ compensation, fringe benefits tax, employee share schemes and others
- preparation and filing of all payroll compliance obligations including Single Touch Payroll and Pay Day filing and year-end reporting obligations
- agile payroll reporting adaptable to your business needs
- digitisation of employee processes: onboarding, rostering, timesheets, leave and expenses
- provision of employee self-service portal with 24/7 connectivity via a smartphone app or computer portal
- automation of Modern Award and Enterprise Agreement interpretation in Australia, offering analysis and review.
Find out more about Global Payroll (PDF 4.1MB).
Payroll secondment services
If you require specialist resourcing support while undertaking payroll projects or implementing changes in payroll operations, KPMG can provide experienced payroll specialists to help. Our specialists will have the right level of knowledge and skills needed to minimise disruption to your business.
KPMG’s payroll professionals offer hands on assistance and bring extensive payroll and employment taxes experience, including with a range of payroll software solutions, leading to faster onboarding.
We have assisted clients in different industries with payroll staff secondment arrangements, such as:
- administering day-to-day payroll processing, reporting and payroll compliance
- directing payroll operations with in-house teams and outsourced payroll service providers
- assisting with payroll system implementation, project management and payroll testing activities
- supporting specific payroll projects such as time and leave integration, implementing payroll requirements from a new Enterprise Agreement, and others
- helping with payroll remediation activities
- identifying process and systems improvements, as well as potential payroll non-compliance risks.
Single Touch Payroll (STP) reporting services
Our STP reporting service allows you to meet your STP reporting obligations without changing the way you process payroll. We can complete the STP reporting of your pay events to the Australian Taxation Office using our standalone STP 2 compliant reporting tool.
We have helped clients when their:
- legacy payroll system is unable to correctly report STP 2 to the ATO
- current provider is unable to complete STP 2 compliant reporting
- new payroll system is being implemented.
Payroll optimisation review services
Our multidisciplinary approach to payroll consulting services brings together specialists in:
- payroll
- tax
- transformation
- employee relations
- information technology.
Our specialists provide you with holistic advice to assist you in reshaping your payroll operating model, technology solution, and your approach to broader governance and strategy.
Find out more about our Payroll optimisation review services (PDF 517KB).
Implementation support services
Implementing a new payroll system requires a significant time investment from your team. To allow you to focus on day-to-day business operations, KPMG works in collaboration with your new payroll provider to assist you with:
- reviews of current processes and procedures, as well as designing future state processes and procedures
- review and assistance with the completion of configuration blueprints
- preparation of test scripts
- parallel run testing
- change management.
Why outsource operational payroll to KPMG?
Lower long-term costs and meet current and future needs with a streamlined approach to operational payroll and compliance.
Compliance
Our payroll specialists work as an extension of your team. We help you to mitigate existing and emerging payroll and compliance risks and provide support on tax, industrial relations, immigration, and HR issues as they arise.
Cost
Our transparent pricing provides you with cost certainty and incentivises efficiency savings. Find out how your business may benefit from cost efficiencies achieved by using KPMG for your payroll processing and compliance.
Technology
KPMG’s high quality payroll services use market-leading payroll technology. Our flexible technologies are scalable and can be effectively used by businesses of any size. We will tailor the solution to best meet your needs.
Scalability
Use our outsourcing solution to easily scale up and down based on business requirements. Our specialists can help you navigate challenges with business expansion, including operational and compliance requirements and remapping of payroll setup and processes.
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Contact KPMG’s Payroll & Compliance team
To learn how KPMG can help you manage your payroll and tax compliance function, or request a demonstration, get in touch.
