
Payroll handover risk: what happens when your payroll person leaves
Don’t let a payroll handover disrupt your business. Learn how to manage payroll risk, ensure continuity, and maintain compliance when your payroll specialist leaves.
When you partner with Alltech for managed payroll, we are an extension of your team. Alltech becomes your payroll function – processing every pay run, managing compliance, lodging Single Touch Payroll (STP), and handling the complexities that come with Awards, Enterprise Agreements, and multi-site workforces.
We are Employment Hero Payroll specialists. All clients are managed utilising the Employment Hero Payroll solution. Our team has configured the platform for clients across manufacturing, wholesale, healthcare, construction, and professional services. Our expertise spans the building of Awards, Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) rule set builds, and the setup of integrating payroll with your HR and finance systems.
From new starter setups to leave management, superannuation, payslips, and payroll reporting, and of course complex calculations to awards and EBAs, Alltech manages it for you.
Our managed payroll clients range from SMEs to larger organisations with 500+ employees. Many operate in complex, award-driven environments – and that’s exactly where Alltech’s expertise makes the difference.
We typically work with businesses that:
There is a common misconception that payroll software does all the work. The software is only as good as the people running it – and identifying issues, interpreting Awards, and staying across compliance requires genuine expertise. That’s what Alltech brings to every pay cycle.
Alltech has been processing payroll since 1992. We know Australian payroll inside and out - understanding the complexities across Fair Work obligations, Award interpretation, Single Touch Payroll, and the complexity of EBAs.
We are an Employment Hero preferred partner. Utilising the Employment Hero HR solution since 2018, our team knows how to configure it for real-world complexity, not just for the basics.
You get a dedicated Alltech payroll consultant who knows your payroll scenario intimately. We provide transparency, checks and risk management measures, communicated clearly before every approval and pay run.
Multi-site workforces, rotating rosters, EBAs, multiple Awards, overnight shifts, dual roles - we handle the payroll complexities that cause businesses to struggle in-house.
Protecting your employees' pay is our highest priority. We apply rigorous checks each pay run, maintain audit-ready records, and keep you informed of any risks.
Alltech charges on a per-employee, per-pay-run basis. No hidden costs, no surprise add-ons, no charge for every small change. You know exactly what you're paying each cycle.
Getting started with Alltech is straightforward. We take the time to understand your business, your people, and your payroll – then we take it off your plate.
Before anything else, we get to know your payroll. We run a structured preliminary call to understand your pay frequencies, workforce makeup, Awards or Enterprise Agreements, cut-off processes, and how data flows into payroll. This is where we align on how we'll work together, agree on approval timeframes and confirm that everything in your setup is in order before the first pay run.
By the time you come to Alltech's managed payroll team, your business is already set up in Employment Hero Payroll - either implemented previously or by our own implementations team. We take the time to thoroughly review your existing setup, understand your configuration, and familiarise ourselves with your payroll before we touch a thing.
We process your first pay run with extra care and thorough cross-checks. We communicate our findings clearly before you approve, so you can see exactly what we've done and why - building your confidence in the process from day one.
Each pay cycle, we collect your data, process payroll, apply all rules and compliance obligations, and send you the pay run with a clear summary for your own checking and for your approval before we lodge and submit your pay run data with the ATO for STP reporting. You stay in control; we do the heavy lifting.
Your dedicated Alltech consultant is available for queries, changes, and anything that comes up between pay runs including new starters, terminations, back-pays, or Enterprise Agreement updates. We handle it.
We manage STP finalisation, superannuation reporting, and year-end obligations - keeping your records clean, your lodgements on time, and your business compliant.
Many businesses default to managing payroll in-house without stopping to consider the real cost in time, expertise, software, and risk. Outsourcing your payroll to Alltech means you get a team of specialists, knowledgeable and up to date with legislation, already trained, already set up, and ready to be an extension to your payroll, finance and HR teams.
One of the most underestimated risks in in-house payroll is what happens when the person running it leaves. Payroll knowledge is often undocumented – it lives in one person’s head. When they go on leave, resign, or are unwell, the business is exposed. Australian payroll turnover reached 14.2% in 2025, and research has linked single-person payroll teams to significantly higher compliance exposure during transitions. With Alltech, your payroll is run by a team – there is always someone who knows your business.

Don’t let a payroll handover disrupt your business. Learn how to manage payroll risk, ensure continuity, and maintain compliance when your payroll specialist leaves.

Outsourced payroll cover much more than handing over pay runs.
The service includes payroll processing and oversight, Award and Enterprise Agreement rule support, structured compliance checks, reporting and approval support, and built-in continuity.