Kronos Timekeeperfor

Payroll Administrators(Hourly employees – weekly pay

period)Kronos

Location Payroll Responsibilities– Daily / Weekly

Log onto Kronos Select Timekeeping tab Select Pay Period Close

Payroll Review

Once the Pay Period Close ‘genie’ appears. Review each section as directed on the daily checklist. Slide 4. Combined Hours column, Manager approval column and Missed Punch column.

Payroll Review – Daily checklist

1. Kronos Verification - Pay Period Close (specific date or yesterday time period).   Verify the manager has approved all timecards. If not, have manager approve.

Manager approval should be a minimum of "1". **There should only be a "1 (Partial)“ approval if the EE was hired after the beginning of the pay period or was terminated prior to end of pay period - may indicate need for final check in certain states. May see 'partial‘ approvals if supervisor delegation was used.

Note: California employees will need employee approval as well as manager approval.  2. Review all employees with less than 8 combined hours. Exception is Terminated ee's.   3. Verify if there are any missed punches. If so, contact manager to make applicable corrections.

Payroll should never be processed with missed punches. This indicates the EE's time is incorrect Verify correct codes used if there are company down days **NP-Co Schld Dtime…this is used for down

days. **See Kronos Memo - Company Scheduled Down Days

4. Kronos Movement of Hours   Review movement of hours between pay codes (meetings, training, etc) correct labor dept/function is

used. Utilize the Invalid function to determine if a correction is needed. Contact manager to make correction for invalid function. Slide 5

5. Kronos Reports   Generate the Employee Hours by Labor Account & review pay codes (should not have any salary pay

codes, money, hours and $'s columns). Slides 6-7. Review for Missing Labor Accounts. Slides 8-9 Generate the Timecard Audit Trail & review edit punches. Any time edited must have employee and

manager's signature. Slides 8-11

Preliminary SOX Retention Requirements: Payroll clerk should review and initial the daily timecard audit trail. Signatures of employees and supervisors as noted in step 3 should be retained with the audit trail. Can replace w/weekly audit trail at end of week.  

Payroll Review – Invalid FunctionsFrom the Pay Period Close screen, generate

the invalid functions hyperfind.

Payroll Review – Reports Employee Hours by Labor Account – proper pay

codes usedAt the bottom of the ‘Employees Hours by Labor Account’ report, it will list all of the pay codes that have been used for the time frame selected. Ensure that there are no Salary pay codes listed. Contact manager for correction.

Navigate to Reports - General Tab > Reports Expand Roll-Up Genie CategorySelect Employee Hours by Labor Account

Payroll Review – Reports Employee Hours by Labor Account – proper pay

codes used

Payroll Review – Reports Employee Hours by Labor Account – Missing Labor

AccountsAt the bottom of the ‘Employees Hours by Labor Account’ report, it will list all of the employees that have missing labor accounts for the time frame selected. CONTACT Kronos Specialist (TERRI WERMTER) for correction instructions.

Navigate to Reports - General Tab > Reports Expand Roll-Up Genie CategorySelect Employee Hours by Labor AccountSelect – hyperfind – Missing Labor Accounts – Run Report

Payroll Review – Reports Employee Hours by Labor Account – Missing Labor

Accounts

This shows an example of an employee that is missing their labor accounts

When the Status changes to ‘Complete’, you can view the report

Payroll Review – ReportsTimecard Audit Trail

Any employee that is listed that has had a change to their ‘actual’ punch will require the employee’ssignature. An indication of this is when you see 2 punch times and one is in brackets. The bracketsindicate the employees ‘actual’ punch and the other is what it was changed to. This requires theemployee signature.

Navigate to Reports - General Tab > Reports Expand Timecard, Select Timecard Audit Trail

Payroll Review – ReportsTimecard Audit Trail

Any employee that is listed that has had a change to their ‘actual’ punch will require the employee’ssignature. An indication of this is when you see 2 punch times and one is in brackets. The bracketsindicate the employees ‘actual’ punch and the other is what it was changed to. This requires theemployee signature.

Select the Options Tab, Select Audit types, Select Edit Punch

Payroll Review – ReportsTimecard Audit Trail

Any employee that is listed that has had a change to their ‘actual’ punch will require the employee’ssignature. An indication of this is when you see 2 punch times and one is in brackets. The bracketsindicate the employees ‘actual’ punch and the other is what it was changed to. This requires theemployee signature.

Select Data Sources option, Select ‘include only selected data sources, select Timecard

Payroll Review – ReportsTimecard Audit Trail

Any employee that is listed that has had a change to their ‘actual’ punch will require the employee’ssignature. An indication of this is when you see 2 punch times and one is in brackets. The bracketsindicate the employees ‘actual’ punch and the other is what it was changed to. This change requires theemployee ‘s signature.

Payroll Review – Weekly checklist Follow slides 4-15, changing time period to

previous pay period.1. Kronos Verification - Pay Period Close (previous pay period).   Verify the manager has approved all

timecards. If not, have manager approve. Manager approval should be a minimum of "1". **There should only be a "1 (Partial)“ approval if the EE was

hired after the beginning of the pay period or was terminated prior to end of pay period - may indicate need for final check in certain states. May see 'partial‘ approvals if supervisor delegation was used.

Note: California employees will need employee approval as well as manager approval.  2. Review all employees with less than 40 combined hours. Exception is Terminated ee's.   3. Verify if there are any missed punches. If so, contact manager to make applicable corrections.

Payroll should never be processed with missed punches. This indicates the EE's time is incorrect Verify correct codes used if there are company down days **NP-Co Schld Dtime…this is used for down days.

**See Kronos Memo - Company Scheduled Down Days 4. Verify if there are any terminated employees being paid.

Confirm reason for payment. Review on screen.

5. Verify any Active employees without payment. (Combined hours would be zero) Shows up on last page of Employee Hours report

6. Kronos Time Record Adjustments Bonus Award Vacation Payout (Personal Floater payout for CA employees) Safety Award Vacation Advance – Prepaid (EE paid vacation in advance and will take time off later) Vacation Payout No Time Off ( EE paid vacation in advance will NOT take time off later) Vacation Payout – Terminated employee (Remaining vacation hours paid to terminated ee)

Prepare spreadsheet summary of payouts/adjustments with documentation for controller review**

7. Kronos Accrual Adjustments for Terminated employees. Zero out Birthday accrual Zero out Personal Floater accrual Process Vacation Payout for terminated employees. See slides 28 – 31. If vacation was processed via a manual payment, do NOT zero out hours. Process historical edit to correct

balance in Kronos. Do NOT include in ‘Totals for effective date’, but be sure to check ‘Impact accruals’.Include on spreadsheet summary of payouts/adjustments with documentation for controller review**

8. Kronos Historical Edits Process historical edits to correct adjustments from prior payroll periods that have been signed off or

locked by Corporate Payroll. See Slides 18 - 27Include on spreadsheet summary of payouts/adjustments with documentation for controller review**

8. Kronos Movement of Hours or Missing Labor Account  Review movement of hours between pay codes (meetings, training, etc) correct labor dept/function is

used. Utilize the Invalid function or Missing Labor account hyperfinds to determine. See slides 5, and Contact manager to make correction.

9. Kronos Reports   Generate the Employee Hours by Labor Account & review pay codes (should not have any salary pay

codes, money, hours and $'s columns). Slide 5. Review for Missing Labor Accounts. Slides 8-9. Generate the Timecard Audit Trail & review edit punches. Any time edited must have employee and

manager's signature. Slides 10-13.10. Upon completion of above steps, approve Kronos timecards.

Manager Approval column should now be a minimum of a ‘2’. Slide 17

Payroll Review – Weekly checklistReports - Follow slides 6-11, changing time period

to previous pay period.

Payroll Review – Weekly Checklist

8. HRS Time Entry Adjustments Enter any contract Labor. Also uses for Month-end Accruals

9. Cyborg Adjustments – TC1SCR (Must be keyed on Monday, unless otherwise instructed by Corp Payroll)

Enter payment of flat $ dollar amounts (A&S payment, Retro pay, Service Awds, etc) Key replacement checks Adjust Kronos hours for manual and reversed payments by Corporate Payroll (manual checks)

Include on spreadsheet summary of payouts/adjustments with documentation for controller review**

8. Controller / Ops Manager Review / Sign Off Upon completing steps 1 – 9, give payroll adjustment spreadsheet packet to Controller / Ops Manager to

review / sign off.9. Reconcile Kronos hours to Cyborg hours

Reconcile Kronos hours report to Cyborg combined Register hours.

**Assumes plants are maintaining a review packet of adjustments/payouts, etc. as a part of the payroll reconciliation packet.

Preliminary SOX Retention Requirements: This checklist – dated at the top, initialed as each step is completed Review packet of payroll adjustments/payouts, etc. – with controller - ops manager review /approval Timecard audit trail report for the week (see daily checklist) – clerk can replace daily with weekly at the end

of payroll week.

Payroll Review

On the Pay Period Close genie, review each section as directed on the weekly checklist. Combined Hours column, Manager approval column and Missed Punch column. After all corrections, payroll will approve. Now the Manager Approval column should have a minimum of a 2.

Kronos TimekeeperHistorical Edits

for Payroll Administrators

(Hourly)Kronos

Kronos TimekeeperHistorical Edits

1. Log on to Kronos2. Select Employee that needs historical edit processing. You

should have a ‘Historical Edit’ form turned into payroll.3. Select timecard

Kronos TimekeeperHistorical Edits

4. Select Amount5. Select Add Historical

Kronos TimekeeperHistorical Edits

A new window will appear where you will enter the specificInformation. This following slides illustrates correcting anaccrual balance.

Kronos TimekeeperHistorical Edits

A new window will appear where you will enter the specificInformation. This following slides illustrates correcting anaccrual balance.

6. Enter the date of the incorrect entry7. Select the original pay code entry8. Select the amount of the pay code entry.

Note: if you are negating the amount, use the negative sign in front of the amount.

9. Choose the Effective date. Note: This will default to the last day of the current pay period (Sunday’s date).

10.Check – ‘Include in Totals for Effective Date’.Note: Be sure this is checked to ensure proper payment processing.

11.Check – ‘Impact Accruals’. Note: This will ensure that the accrual balance is updated.

12.Comments – This is an option to add with a note.13.Select OK.

Kronos TimekeeperHistorical Edits

Repeat slide 17 to add the correct accrual entry.A new window will appear where you will enter the specificinformation.

Kronos TimekeeperHistorical Edits

This slide illustrates the correct entries.

14.Enter the date of the incorrect entry15.Select the original pay code entry16.Select the amount of the pay code entry.

Note: if you are negating the amount, use the negative sign in front of the amount.

17.Choose the Effective date. Note: This will default to the last day of the current pay period (Sunday’s date).

18.Check – ‘Include in Totals for Effective Date’.Note: Be sure this is checked to ensure proper payment processing.

19.Check – ‘Impact Accruals’. Note: This will ensure that the accrual balance is updated.

20.Comments – This is an option to add with a note.21.Select OK.

Kronos TimekeeperHistorical Edits

You have completed Adding the Historical entries.

22.SAVE your entry.23.Select the Historical Edits TAB to see the entries that were

made. Check to make sure that the entries are correct. Ifthey are incorrect, right-click and select DELETE and startover.

Kronos TimekeeperHistorical Edits

24.Check your Totals & Schedules TAB.

This tab should display your entries. Both positive andnegative amounts. If the entries are not displayed on thisTAB, and the entries impact payment, the employee’spayment will not be corrected.

Kronos TimekeeperHistorical Edits

25.Check your Accruals TAB.26.Select the day BEFORE the effective date on the timecard.

Notice that the balance for FH and Vacation have notchanged.

Kronos TimekeeperHistorical Edits

27.Select the day OF the effective date on the timecard.Notice that the balance for FH and Vacation have now changed.

Kronos TimekeeperAccrual Payout

Log on to KronosSelect the Timekeeping TabSelect Pay Period CloseSelect the employee that has been terminated. If the employee is no longer active, use the HYPERFIND titled “Terminated Employees” to find the employee.

Select the Accruals link in the task bar. Select Payout from the menu

Select the appropriate Accrual to be paid out.

• Select the effective date• Click OK.

Kronos TimekeeperAccrual Payout

To make sure that the pay code populated the timecard correctly. You will need to view the employees timecard.

With the employee selected, Click Timecard in the upper right corner.

Kronos Timekeeper Accrual Payout

You may need to select “Action” RefreshNow you should see the pay Code “Vac Payout-Term’d-Hrly” with the remaining amount entered. This will automatically enter the remaining available amount of vacation hours that the employee is entitled to receive. If there are any future-scheduled dates, Kronos will display a negative amount in the projected balance column. You will need to remove this future-scheduled time off. See job aid ‘How to remove a scheduled pay code’.

Kronos TimekeeperAccrual Payout