Tell the kinds of payroll reporting you are aware about?

This will include the making of various reports like deduction reports, wage type, leave or absentee reports, new hire reports, LWAP reports and many others.

We would like to know about your experience,expertise and education in detail?

Though this question seems easy, but it will assist in knowing how fluently a person can converse and communicate with others without any flaw. In this question one will have to give all the educational details along with the expertise and experience if any.

Tell about the most common errors that payroll specialist make and also the steps to avoid them?

Usually the input errors occur, this type of answer by a person will explain about the possibility of mistakes one could make while working. Also, it will show a person’s capability to avoid them smartly without causing any further error or creating any chaos.

What is the FLSA?

Such type of questions will exactly tell you how indepth knowledge of the subject, an employee has,especially the know how of the technical words and the other jargon. FLSA stands for Fair Labor Standards Act. This contains the constitutional guidelines related to overtime, wages, protocols and so on.

What is the main purpose of w2 and w4 IRS forms?

This contains the useful data regarding the withholding of tax and eligibility ratio calculations. This is needed by the employee while processing and forwarding tax information.

Describe the time when your work was not applauded, but criticized and how did you solve that problem?

This will tell you about the honesty of the candidate, and will give you a glimpse of how the candidate takes the criticism i.e. positively or negatively.

Every company has different contracts with different entities, each entity with a particular requirement. How will you make sure that every employee is paid correctly and that too on time without causing any delay?

This will help you know the stress level a person could handle along with giving an insight of setting up the process in line.