AI Payroll and Timesheet Administrator · Australia

Payroll closes Tuesday. Four dockets are still in a ute.

Greer collects the period's timesheets from whatever your crews already use, chases the missing and incomplete ones against the crew list, validates hours and cost codes, reconciles labour hours to job costing and hands your approver one payroll-ready file and one written exception report—while a named human approves every pay run.

  • Human approval
  • No bank or tax file data
  • Rates & award calls stay human
WORKER / SF/21 AVAILABLE FOR AUDIT
Payroll and timesheet administrator

Greer

Labour-data capacity for the team that approves the timesheets and signs off every pay run.

ON GREER'S SHIFT
MON

Collect the period's timesheets and log each one against the crew list

CHECK
TUE

Chase missing and incomplete sheets on a fixed pass ahead of the cutoff

CHECK
THU

Validate hours, cost codes, allowance triggers and leave forms, then reconcile to cost codes

APPROVE
FRI

Hand over the payroll-ready file with the written exception report

HANDOFF
MODE HUMAN APPROVALDECISIONS ESCALATE

[ RECOGNISE THE SCRAMBLE? ]

The hours are in the business.
They are just not in one place yet.

Greer is designed for the labour data before a pay run—collection, chasing, validation, cost-code reconciliation and the exception report—not rate setting, award interpretation, timesheet approval or pay processing.

Dated context, not advice: under the Payday Superannuation legislation passed in November 2025 and commencing 1 July 2026, superannuation contributions must reach an employee's fund within seven business days of each qualifying earnings day (Pitcher Partners and BDO Australia, read 2026-09-18). Skillforce is not your accountant, payroll adviser or agent. Greer tracks the pay calendar your own adviser sets and flags each run against it; the obligation, and every decision about it, stays with you.

01

Timesheet collection

Gather the period's sheets from app exports, spreadsheets, emailed dockets and messages into one logged set.

02

Missing-sheet chase

Compare what arrived against the crew list and chase the gaps on a fixed daily pass before the cutoff.

03

Line validation

Check hours are present and legible, codes are on the current list, and times are internally consistent.

04

Cost-code reconciliation

Reconcile total labour hours to job cost codes so job costing and payroll agree on the same number.

05

Exception report

Write up every gap: missing sheets, out-of-tolerance hours, unrecorded approvals, retired codes, untriggered allowances.

06

Payroll-ready handoff

Deliver the import file in the format your payroll system accepts, with the audit trail of what changed after submission.

[ START WITH ONE PAY CYCLE ]

Choose one labour-data workflow.
Define what “done” means.

Greer does not approve a timesheet, set a rate or process a pay run. Start with one bounded workflow, one named approver and one visible completion state.

WORKFLOW / 01COLLECT & CHASE

Timesheet collection and the missing-sheet chase

Pull the period's sheets together from the sources your crews already use and chase the gaps against the crew list on a fixed pass ahead of the cutoff.

START
Your crew list, timesheet sources, cutoff time and chase message template
DONE
Every crew member accounted for: sheet logged, chased, or listed as outstanding
HUMAN
The crew's supervisor approves the timesheet itself, as they do today
WORKFLOW / 02VALIDATE & RECONCILE

Line validation and cost-code reconciliation

Check each line against your own rules, then reconcile total labour hours to job cost codes so job costing and payroll start from the same number.

START
Your current cost-code list, tolerance band, allowance triggers and leave-form rules
DONE
Lines validated, hours reconciled to cost codes, unreconciled remainder stated
HUMAN
Your payroll officer or accountant rules on rates, classifications and award questions
WORKFLOW / 03EXCEPTIONS & HANDOFF

Exception report and the payroll-ready file

Deliver one written exception report and one import file in your payroll system's format, by the cutoff your team sets.

START
Your payroll import format, cutoff, tolerance band and escalation route
DONE
Exception report written with an owner per line, import file delivered on time
HUMAN
A named approver accepts the file before any pay run is processed

[ A JOB DESCRIPTION, NOT A PROMPT ]

What Greer can own.
What Greer must hand back.

Prepare-and-flag, always. A named human approver signs off before any pay is processed, timesheet approval stays with the supervisor, and every rate, classification and award question goes to your payroll officer or accountant.

GREEN

Administrative work

Configured, tested and measured within one bounded workflow.

  • Collect the period's timesheets from app exports, spreadsheets, emailed dockets and messages
  • Log each submission against the crew list and chase what is missing on a fixed daily pass
  • Check that hours are present and legible and that start and finish times are internally consistent
  • Check each job or cost code against the current code list your team maintains
  • Check that an allowance carries the trigger your own rules require, and that leave is coded to a submitted form
  • Reconcile total labour hours to job cost codes and state the unreconciled remainder
  • Write the exception report: missing sheets, out-of-tolerance hours, overtime with no recorded approval, retired codes, untriggered allowances, leave with no form
  • Prepare the payroll-ready import file and maintain the submission audit trail for human review
AMBER

Human approval

Prepared by Greer; accepted or decided by your named team member.

  • Every payroll-ready file, before any pay run is processed
  • Every exception the report raises, and what is done about each one
  • Every correction applied to a submitted timesheet after the fact
  • Every chase message and any other external message to a crew member
  • Changes to the cost-code list, tolerance band, allowance triggers, cutoff or escalation route
  • Changes to your retention settings and to what data Greer may hold at all
RED

Human only

Outside the worker's authority by design.

  • Setting or changing any pay rate or classification, and any interpretation of an award or enterprise agreement
  • Approving a timesheet, which stays with the crew's supervisor or manager
  • Processing a pay run, lodging Single Touch Payroll, or initiating any bank or superannuation payment
  • Handling a pay dispute, an underpayment finding or an employee grievance
  • Deciding whether a worker is an employee or a contractor
  • Any clinical, legal, financial, safety-critical, employment or identity decision
  • Any autonomous payroll-system write, external statement or lodgement to a regulator

[ MINIMUM ACCESS BEFORE AUTOMATION ]

Your employee records are not a demo input.

The load audit starts with blank templates, a redacted timesheet sample and workload counts—not live employee records, pay figures or a payroll login. Live access follows a written map of purpose, minimum fields, human approval, retention and escalation.

Greer works with names, hours and cost codes. No tax file numbers, no bank details, no superannuation member numbers. Pay rates are excluded by default and included only where you explicitly opt in. The default is file handoff, with no write access to your payroll system.

  1. 01

    Audit without sensitive content

    Bring blank templates, a redacted timesheet sample and workload counts. Remove employee identifiers, pay figures, client names and fields that are not needed to map the work.

  2. 02

    Map minimum access

    Consider only the crew list, timesheet sources, cost-code list and import format required for the approved workflow.

  3. 03

    Test synthetic cases

    Cover a crew member who never submits, an illegible docket, a retired cost code, an allowance with no recorded trigger and hours outside the tolerance band—using invented examples.

  4. 04

    Name the human owners

    Name who approves timesheets, who accepts the payroll-ready file, who rules on rates and award questions, and who receives an escalation.

[ AN OPERATING SPECIFICATION ]

The labour data is ready.
The decisions stay yours.

Turnaround is set during onboarding against your pay calendar and cutoff. Start with one bounded workflow—collect and chase, validate and reconcile, or exceptions and handoff—and widen only after the test set supports it. The named owner sets the cutoff and review window for each output; suspected underpayment, suspected misclassification and hours that raise a fatigue concern leave the standard queue immediately and undiagnosed.

Submission log
Every crew member accounted for: received, chased, or listed outstanding
Validation pass
Hours, cost codes, allowance triggers and leave forms checked against your rules
Cost-code reconciliation
Labour hours reconciled to cost codes with the unreconciled remainder stated
Exception report
Every gap written up with an owner and a state: raised, cleared, or escalated
Payroll-ready file
Import file in your payroll system's format, delivered by the agreed cutoff
CONTROL / 01APPROVAL

No pay run starts from Greer

The payroll-ready file and the exception report stay drafts until a named human approver accepts them. Greer never processes pay.

CONTROL / 02AUTHORITY

No rate or award call from Greer

Rates, classifications, award interpretation and employee-or-contractor questions stay with your payroll officer, accountant or adviser.

CONTROL / 03ESCALATION

Sensitive findings leave the queue

Suspected underpayment, suspected misclassification and fatigue-relevant hours are escalated immediately and undiagnosed to your nominated payroll officer or accountant.

CONTROL / 04MEASUREMENT

Use your own counts

Track sheets received by the cutoff, exceptions raised and cleared, hours reconciled to cost codes, and elapsed time from cutoff to file delivered—against your own baseline.

Capacity is scoped per crew size, pay frequency and timesheet volume during onboarding, not sold as a flat seat. Greer's queue is sized to the submission, chase, validation, reconciliation and exception volumes agreed in the load audit. New pay frequencies, entities, payroll systems or system writes require a new scope and test set.

[ FREE TIMESHEET LOAD AUDIT ]

Measure your own timesheet workload.

Bring blank templates, a redacted timesheet sample and your submission, chase, exception and reconciliation counts. Map the approval boundaries and one workflow worth testing.

Book the Timesheet Load Audit No live employee records, pay figures or payroll login required.

[ FROM LOAD AUDIT TO TRACKED WORK ]

One workflow.
Proof before expansion.

STEP 1

Free load audit

Use your own submission, chase, exception and reconciliation counts to baseline the work and choose one workflow. No live employee records are required.

STEP 2

Map minimum access

Define the crew list, timesheet sources, cost-code list and import format Greer needs, plus each approval, retention and escalation owner.

STEP 3

Test synthetic cases

Exercise a non-submitter, an illegible docket, a retired cost code, an untriggered allowance and out-of-tolerance hours with invented examples.

STEP 4

Run one workflow

Start in approval mode after synthetic-case testing passes and every required human owner is named. The cutoff and review window are set during the load audit.

[ BEFORE THE AUDIT ]

Questions a careful payroll approver should ask.

Does Greer process our pay run?

No. Greer prepares the labour data and hands over a payroll-ready file and an exception report. A named human approver checks and accepts them, and your existing payroll process runs the pay. Greer does not lodge Single Touch Payroll and does not initiate any bank or superannuation payment.

Can Greer approve a timesheet?

No. Timesheet approval stays with the crew's supervisor or manager, where it already sits. Greer records what was submitted, flags what is missing or inconsistent and leaves the approval where your business has put it.

Will Greer tell us which pay rate, classification or award clause applies?

No. Greer does not set or change pay rates or classifications and does not interpret an award. Greer checks that a claim carries the trigger your own rules require and raises anything that does not as an exception for your payroll officer or accountant.

What employee data does Greer need?

Names, hours and cost codes. No tax file numbers, no bank details and no superannuation member numbers. Pay rates are excluded by default and included only where you explicitly opt in for rate-dependent validation.

Does the load audit need live timesheets or employee records?

No. Start with blank templates, a redacted timesheet sample and workload counts. Remove employee identifiers, pay figures, client names and any information not needed to map the workflow.

Will Greer work inside our payroll system?

The default is file handoff, and no write access to the payroll system is required. Read-only export access is optional rather than assumed. Any system write requires a separately approved scope and test set.

What result do we measure?

Four counts you already own: the share of timesheets received by the cutoff, the number of exceptions raised and cleared before it, the labour hours reconciled to cost codes and the unreconciled remainder, and the elapsed time from cutoff to payroll-ready file delivered.

How is Greer different from your accounts receivable worker, Nora?

Nora works on money owed to you — invoices out, statements, ageing and collection follow-up. Greer works on labour data going in, before any pay is calculated: timesheets collected, validated and reconciled to cost codes for a named approver.

What does Greer do beyond a timesheet app?

A timesheet app collects what crews choose to enter. Greer works the gap around it: who has not submitted, which sheets are illegible or incomplete, which cost codes are retired, which allowance has no recorded trigger, and whether the labour hours agree with job costing before the file goes to your approver.

[ START WITH YOUR OWN BASELINE ]

Bring the missing dockets.
Keep every decision.

Map one approval-ready labour-data workflow and test whether careful administration gets timesheets in, validated and reconciled before the cutoff without giving away rate, award, timesheet-approval or pay-processing authority.

Book the Timesheet Load Audit No generic sales demo · Direct with the founder