iv. Management Response and Corrective Action Plan:
Program staff allocate their time spent at work each day based on their client load and recurring weekly activities, e.g., case conferencing meetings. Staff must allocate their daily time and activity hours on their timesheets corresponding to the project/s each client is enrolled in. Leave allocations should reflect each payroll period’s project time and activity actual percentages. Staff must manually record this information on complicated timesheets and consequently errors are made as not all staff are equally administratively adept. While there are multiple levels of review over timesheets, as the company has grown, it has become apparent that NBCC must integrate a more reliable method of always ensuring accurate allocation calculation of regular and leave hours. The expectation was that our new payroll solution provider, Paychex, was going to custom tailor a system that prevented such calculation errors, but this has not been the case thus far. Therefore, NBCC is actively once again researching payroll companies in an effort to find a solution better aligned with our timesheet needs. In the interim, management will work to edit our existing timesheet template to create a more user-friendly timesheet tool that auto-calculates where necessary and as appropriate so as to avoid misallocation. Management will also conduct additional timesheet trainings with staff as necessary. The end goal will be to secure a new payroll solution provider with system functionality that eliminates this kind of human error.
v. Contact Person (s) Responsible for Corrective Action:
Kristine Schwarz, Executive Director, kschwarz@sbnbcc.org
Victoria Garfield, Grants Administration Director, vgarfield@sbnbcc.org
Michael Dzierski, Finance Director, mdzierski@sbnbcc.org
vi. Anticipated Completion Date:
The anticipated completion date of the first step of editing our existing timesheet and retraining all staff as necessary is June 30, 2025. The anticipated completion date of the second step of having an integrated new payroll system with a new payroll solution provider will be dictated by the identification of a new vendor, and the subsequent development and implementation process of the new system, with an estimated completion date of December 31, 2025.