Payroll month-end in 30 minutes (Nigeria)
Same sequence every month: confirm who is on payroll, run numbers, approve, pay, remit, archive. Here is the playbook founders repeat instead of reinventing under pressure.
- Same sequence every month: draft → approve → pay → remit → archive.
- Confirm joiners and leavers before you run numbers.
- Done means payslips out, bank matches net, receipts saved.
It is the 28th. Someone on your team is on leave, someone else joined mid-month, and you are not sure if last month’s pension actually left the account. Month-end payroll does not have to be a two-day fire drill — it is the same checklist every time.
Draft → approve → pay → remit. Same order, every month.
The sequence
- Confirm pay period dates; update joiners and leavers.
- Add variable pay or attendance adjustments if you use them.
- Generate draft — scan gross, pension, NHF, PAYE, net per person.
- Named approver signs off (founder or finance lead).
- Export bank payment file and pay staff.
- Mark run paid when transfers confirm.
- Remit PAYE, pension, and other statutory items.
- Export payslips and filing pack.
Done means
- Every active employee has a payslip for the period
- Bank outflow matches total net pay
- Statutory payment receipts saved
- Pay run marked paid in your system
Run your next pay period — Playbook on the dashboard · Nigeria statutory pack