Payroll Award Interpretation, Rostering, Time & Attendance in one package

 

2025 Australian Payroll Association Payroll Survey Report

https://www.austpayroll.com.au/what-the-2025-australian-payroll-survey-taught-us-about-the-future-of-payroll/

We have undertaken an analysis if the Inzenius capabilities as desired in the survey and responded with Inzenius capabilities to address them.

What the 2025 Australian Payroll Survey taught us about the future of payroll

Are Australian organisations ready for the challenges facing payroll in 2025?

“Australian Payroll Association’s 2025 Payroll Industry Survey offers a sobering perspective and a clear call to action for payroll teams and business leaders. The report reveals a payroll landscape fraught with complexity, rapid tech evolution, and an urgent need for modernisation.”

The challenges facing payroll today that Inzenius fixes

Technology gaps: Many organisations struggle with payroll software that lacks integration or automation, leading to time-consuming manual processes.

  • Inzenius’ out-of-the-box model is the most complete Australian and New Zealand configurable Award Interpreter built by Australians for the local conditions and rules.

Compliance complexity: Keeping up with legislation, such as award interpretations and wage theft laws, remains a persistent challenge.

  • Inzenius designs easily and keeps up with the current and any future rule changes due to its patented system design and capabilities.

Data accuracy issues: Poor or incomplete payroll inputs caused errors for nearly a third of organisations surveyed.

  • Automating the payroll processing directly from the approved timesheets makes it easy to configure award or EBA payroll and leave rules step-by-step.

Undertrained teams: Limited investment in payroll education leaves businesses vulnerable to non-compliance risks and burnout among payroll professionals.

  • The simplified automated 5-step payroll processing is undertaken without manual calculations, with automated pay compared to the industry award for the better-of-overall test (BOOT) for each pay run.

Outdated or fragmented systems: Legacy software prevents organisations from achieving operational efficiencies and limits reporting capabilities.

  • Inzenius API platform facilitates direct data sharing across the complete HRM, finance, and production ecosystem together with MS Power BI connectors, easily creating client-designed reports and dashboards across the entire client’s systems.

Where payroll can drive strategic value

What if payroll weren’t just a back office administrative task but a driver of strategic growth? This is a shift more organisations need to consider, especially in 2025.

Payroll teams that maximise the value of payroll data can generate actionable insights to improve compliance, workforce planning, and cost optimisation. Here’s how strategic payroll drives impact across the business:

Workforce planning: Detailed analysis of payroll data provides clarity on overtime trends, absenteeism, and retention rates, enabling better staff allocation.

  • Inzenius includes a comprehensive Rostering, Timekeeping, and Timesheet system. All these functions are in the all-in-one system, providing simplified data analysis of employee engagement and time allocation to site, location, cost centre, and position. Pay classification and event breakdown by each shift or part thereof are also provided.

Cost management: Insights into payroll compliance penalties and misallocations help organisations optimise costs and prevent avoidable leaks.

  • The same award interpreter used for payroll is also used for roster and leave, timekeeping, and timesheet costing, analysing, rectifying, and authorising automated payroll processing.

Data-driven decisions: With real-time analytics and AI-driven tools, payroll teams can pre-empt compliance risks and improve financial planning.

  • Inzenius can build the required shift times to produce the selected unit service or item outputs in the shift with its demand-built rostering.

Inzenius is a strategic partner that helps teams gain a competitive edge.

What technology means for payroll’s next era

Tech transformation is unavoidable in every industry, and payroll is no exception. With AI-driven solutions and automation becoming more accessible, organisations are reducing workload inefficiencies, improving compliance, and retaining top talent.

AI driven compliance and interpretation: AI can automate award  interpretation, reducing manual errors

  • Inzenius AI introductions and roadmap see the secure use of the client’s valuable data and some predictive payroll capabilities now and in the future..

Seamless system integration: Integration across payroll, HR, and finance platforms ensures that employees are paid correctly, while payroll professionals gain clear, real-time insights.

  • Inzenius API platform integrates any API-capable system used by the client. Additional capability of the MS Power BI tools allows data to be compiled from the entire business IT ecosystem for reports and dashboards.

Automation with oversight: Automating repetitive tasks eliminates human error, potentially saving thousands of working hours annually.

  • With Inzenius, manual calculations and data entry can be eliminated

The high cost and shortage of scarce, skilled payroll professionals is a driver in the  need for payroll automation as is delivered by Inzenius

The removal of routine admin paves the way for analyst and strategist roles within payroll, shifting the focus to higher-value contributions.

Actionable insights for business leaders

The survey data is a wake-up call to Australian organisations. More importantly, it’s a roadmap for improvement.

Here’s how your business can start overcoming payroll challenges today, setting yourself on the path to success for 2025 and beyond.

  1. Leverage payroll technology

Invest in tools that integrate seamlessly with HR and finance systems to close efficiency gaps and ensure better data quality. Evaluate vendors based on flexibility, automation, and support for real-time compliance updates.

  •  Inzenius’ all-in-one Rostering to payroll system delivers this out-of-the-box

  1. Prioritise payroll analytics

Shift from a compliance-only focus to a data-driven model that aligns payroll operations with business strategy. Use analytics to streamline workforce management, reduce costs, and strengthen long term planning.

  • Inzenius all-in-one Rostering, timekeeping and timesheet with direct time and cost allocation to the most granular of employee engagements, break down capabilities, delivers valuable data for client-specific analytical reporting and analysis.
  1. Support your payroll team.

Provide your team with the training, time, and resources they need to thrive. Encourage continuous professional development through memberships with associations like the Australian Payroll Association.

Inzenius supports the need for ongoing training of the business payroll team to facilitate auditing the payroll configuration setup and other employee IR legislative and statutory requirements. Analysis of departmental rostering and payroll performance is the key focus for payroll professionals as strategic partners in business decision-making; manual payroll calculations and data entry are no longer required.

  1. Adopt AI gradually

Start small with AI adoption in compliance monitoring or award interpretation and scale it as teams grow confident in its capabilities.

  • The Inzenius AI journey has commenced and will continue to include high-value, secure use of business data augmented with external valuable data.

  1. Foster collaboration between departments

Encourage synergy between payroll, HR, and finance teams to create a culture of efficiency, accuracy, and shared responsibility in maintaining payroll integrity.

The future of payroll is here. Own it.