Emergency Payroll Cover

Our retainer service ensures your payroll operations stay on track even in unforeseen disruptions. This is not outsourcing; it's a strategic partnership! We provide access to senior payroll experts who will temporarily step in to support your payroll team during times of crisis, such as unexpected absences, pandemics, or natural disasters.

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Cover Within Your Existing Systems

We utilise your company’s existing payroll systems, eliminating the need for data transfers and ensuring a smooth and secure payroll process.

Proactive Planning

Our retainer model gives you access to senior payroll experts, when you need them the most. This is not just a contingency plan; it's a proactive strategy to ensure business continuity.

Hardware and Credentials Setup

Once terms are agreed upon and the contract is signed, our onboarding team works with your IT team to set up remote access and necessary credentials. This ensures our experts can access your systems promptly when called upon.

Testing for Seamless Access

We conduct a test cycle to ensure that remote access is successful, allowing for efficient and secure handling of payroll tasks.

Understanding Your Payroll

Our team documents your current payroll processes, schedule, and timelines. This ensures that, in an emergency, we can step in seamlessly without disruptions.

Process Agreement

The documented payroll cycle is agreed upon and signed off, ensuring a clear understanding of the processes involved.

Key Benefits

Guaranteed 2-hour Rapid Response

We offer a swift 2-hour response time, providing comprehensive payroll support in critical situations, ensuring your employees are paid accurately and on time, even in the face of unexpected disruptions.

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Cost Efficient

Our retainer model provides cost-efficient access to senior payroll experts without the commitment of full-time hiring.

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Key Benefits

Expert Guidance

Benefit from the expertise of our IPASS and CIPP qualified, seasoned payroll specialists. Our team are well-versed in the intricacies of payroll and all major systems, bringing a wealth of knowledge to support you with accuracy, efficiency and reliability.

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Resource Extension

Think of us as an extension of your payroll team, offering temporary additional resources, expertise, and support when you need it.

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Key Benefits

Peace of Mind

Partnering with us means having a trusted payroll support partner who delivers reliable, confidential, and secure services. You can trust our expertise, responsiveness, and dedication to ensuring accurate and timely payroll operations.

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Four Steps To Setting Up
Your Emergency Payroll Cover

Once we’ve agreed terms and signed a contract, a four step process begins to get your company set up and ready to call for service within
the agreed two hour Service Level Agreement (SLA). This process typically takes three to five days to complete.

Hardware and Credentials

We work with your IT team to arrange remote access and the necessary credentials.

Remote
Access

We test system and application access to ensure remote access is successful.

Payroll
Specifics

We document your current payroll process, payroll schedule and timelines.

Process
Agreement

The payroll cycle documentation is agreed and signed off.

And you’re live!

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Who We Have Worked With

What our clients say

Hugh O’Brien Former Group HR Director, Eir

"Due to the methodology and approach CR Payroll applied, the transition occurred seamlessly without any significant issues. There was no business disruption, all salary payments were made on time and correct. All tax returns were completed on schedule."

Beckie Robertson Head of HR, Trust Ford

"CR Payroll’s solution is reliable and robust and provides a much needed safety net to the payroll team. I would recommend it to any prospective clients."

Eimear Byrne Former Associate Manager, HR Shared Services, Stryker

"The support offered by the CR Payroll team is second to none. Payroll cover is never a problem even at short notice. It is invaluable from a business perspective coming from a campus of over 3,000 employees with combinations of weekly, bi-weekly and monthly payrolls."

Niamh O'Kane EMEA Payroll Manager, Zendesk

"Due to the urgency of our request we were onboarded as a client in a few days. They hit the ground running with very little handover. We would recommend the company specifically for the high quality of all of their staff and their flexible and reliable approach."

Hugh O'Brien Head of Human Resources, Applus+ Automotive Ireland.

"The staff are payroll experts who bring confidentiality and a problem-solving, practical mentality to their customers’ challenges by delivering a high-quality service. The team always ensure a 100% adherence rate to their 2-hour contractual SLA which is the best in the market."

Michael Cronin Group Financial Controller,The Rehab Group

"Because of the work we do, it is vital we can rely on the businesses we engage with. CR Payroll has provided this support and has the skill set to complement our HR and Payroll functions. CR Payroll has supported us in the delivery of project works, helping us with system upgrades to enhance our Payroll and HR processes. CR Payroll has also accommodated us with urgent payroll cover while we dealt with staff changes. The quick response time has been helpful in filling the gap for us in a time of need."