SW Accountants & Advisors

SW Accountants & Advisors provides Payroll Processing and Outsourcing across Australia, as part of a full service outsourced finance function run from offices in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.

• Payroll services sit alongside bookkeeping, BAS and IAS lodgements, management accounting, personal taxes and registry and company secretarial services, so a business can hand over its whole back office or use individual services on an as-needs basis.
• Processing runs on cloud-based accounting software tailored to the client, with add-on software incorporated where required to automate processing and build a fully integrated accounting system.
• The team maintains close day-to-day involvement with the organisation and alerts clients to critical issues as they arise, supported by employment tax specialists covering FBT, superannuation and payroll.
• The firm has more than 400 people and a 90-year history, with cloud accounting services alongside its outsourced work.

Best for: private businesses, family offices and organisations that want an outsourced finance function as an alternative to an in-house team, with payroll handled by an accounting firm that also covers tax, audit and advisory.

SW Accountants & Advisors delivers Payroll Compliance Auditing and Remediation across Australia, through its Payday Super review for employers.

• The review performs a full payroll-to-output reconciliation with Payday Super rules, penalties and interest built in, and accepts data from any payroll system.
• The SW Payday Super Tool analyses payroll data, identifies potential superannuation issues and highlights the underlying causes, with every discrepancy classified and quantified.
• SW supports remediation, voluntary disclosures and ongoing monitoring, and reports to Boards and audit committees.

Best for: employers with 250 or more staff, multiple awards or enterprise agreements, or multiple payroll systems.