Payroll close plus anomaly review

Most payroll providers run the calc, present the totals, take the approval, and write the bank file. The anomalies surface when an employee notices their paycheck is wrong, which is days after the money already moved. The agent inverts that order. Calculate runs against the same hours plus leave plus comp inputs. Anomaly detection runs against rolling history before the totals get to the controller. Outliers surface in the dashboard with the explanation attached. The controller approves anomaly-aware totals, and only then does the bank file write.

Rolling six-pay-period history per employee for hours, gross, and net. Comp changes against the band library. PTO accruals against the policy. Tax withholding against the W-4 plus state form. Deductions against the prior period to catch dropped or doubled benefits. Anything that lands outside two standard deviations on any of those dimensions surfaces in the anomaly review queue.

The savings are not in headcount, they are in error rate. A payroll error caught before the bank file ships costs zero dollars. A payroll error caught after the file ships costs the cost of the off-cycle plus the trust hit with the affected employee. Catching the error inside the agent's review queue rather than the employee's checking account is the entire point of the workflow.

For customers running embedded payroll through Gusto Embedded or Check.hq, the agent posts approved runs directly into the embedded engine, which handles tax filing and direct deposit. For customers on Gusto, Rippling, ADP, Paychex, QuickBooks Payroll, Justworks, TriNet, or Workday through Finch, the agent reads the calc, runs the anomaly review, surfaces the outliers, and the controller approves in the source system. Either way, the anomaly check happens before the bank file ships.