Sydney Steel Fixing a smarter payroll solution

If you are a labour hire company providing steel reinforcement & mesh to roads, bridges & buildings & working with up to 10 projects at a time, you can expect a complex, manual & time consuming payroll, getting wrong is not an option.

This was certainly the case for Sydney Steel Fixing. Ines Gale elaborates.

“Our payroll requires a lot of manual entry for each employee, due to their benefits and requirements, from the Enterprise Bargaining Agreement. Taking up to 3 hours to complete, entries send the transfer & post the payslips for up to 25 employees.”

“The concept of outsourcing was foreign & scary to us. How can you trust someone you don’t even know? Will the money reach the employees bank account?”

After reviewing a number of providers, Ines selected Gridpay. A decision based on trust & their thorough understanding of the process.

“Gridpay made me feel very much at ease with their systems in place and lots of questions. With systems in place and a timesheet emailed back to me for approval with the total amount to be debited from the account has shorten the load to do other things and also puts your mind at ease every time. A complete account report (weekly and monthly) is also provided that speeds up the processing.

In the construction industry the employees are entitled to not only the superannuation but also a redundancy. Every week an amount is allocated for each employee. At the end of each month Gridpay produces a report and funds are paid into the employee's Super and Redundancy companies.

Essentially it gives us more time to do other things. What’s more it has been 20 years since we were able to leave our business and go on a holiday. It felt just fantastic knowing the employees were going to be paid every week and bills were being looked after as well. I felt very relaxed about the whole thing and Gridpay proved it to us…When we got back… we thought... we could have stayed longer!

To prospective businesses looking to outsource their payroll, Ines has simple advice.

“YES! We did it, so can you.”

Any questions that we have, Gridpay is more than willing to help. I personally have been involved with the payroll for many years...I now have time to do other things and I just oversee the payroll watching it flow almost automatically. That is a great feeling!