Admin Army

10/06/2026

Good luck on game day G.I.Ant and NBS Nelson Giants 🏀

Go get buckets!!! 🪣

04/06/2026

Bunnings trade price books are now live inside Fergus and we are here for it.

Our tradie clients, this one is for you. Real Bunnings trade pricing, straight into your quotes. No manual updates. No outdated rates. Just accurate costs from the start.

As Fergus Certified Training Partners, we love seeing the platform get better for the businesses we work with. This is a good one.

20/05/2026

🚨 We are hiring. Bookkeeper, Intermediate. Suva, Fiji. 🚨

The work is for NZ and AU clients. NZ and AU software. NZ and AU compliance. NZ business hours and the NZ public holiday calendar. If you are looking for local Fiji-market bookkeeping, this is not the role.

You will run client files end-to-end in Xero, draft GST returns and monthly reports for senior review, and peer-review your way to consistently clean work.
Two to four years experience preferred, with at least one year running files independently. Strong Junior Plus candidates ready to step up will also be considered.

Paid training. Documented progression to Senior.

Apply here -->>> https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4416459917/?trackingId=gKjkx5mmRnmN2Fqz9wyCYA%3D%3D

18/05/2026

Some people see a broken spreadsheet and quietly close the file.
Some people see a broken spreadsheet and black out for six hours fuelled by spite, pivot tables, and the need to know WHY cell J4387 is ruining everyone’s day. 🤺📊🔥
We’re looking for the second type.

Admin Army is hiring a Project Implementation Specialist, a fully remote role for someone who likes solving messy problems, building systems properly, documenting everything, and making chaos behave itself. 🧠⚡

You’ll be configuring payroll and HR platforms, running implementations, migrating data, troubleshooting weird platform behaviour, and helping clients get live without losing their minds.
You do not need to know everything already. We can train platforms. We can teach payroll. What we need is someone methodical, curious, accountable, and wired to figure things out instead of waiting to be told what to do.

Bonus points if:
📝 Excel is basically your emotional support software.
📝 You write processes without being asked.
📝 You get irrationally satisfied fixing things properly.
📝 You’ve ever said “hang on, that number looks wrong” and been correct.

Remote role. Good humans. Real ownership. No corporate robot nonsense.

If this sounds like your kind of chaos, apply here:

New remote role. Payroll and HR platform implementations across NZ and AU. Right wiring beats right CV.

17/03/2026

Inland Revenue does not often issue Revenue Alerts about payroll.
They just did.

RA 26/01, issued yesterday, is a direct warning to employers: if you are deducting PAYE from your team’s wages and not paying it through to Inland Revenue, you are committing a criminal offence.

The penalties are not small. Up to five years in prison. Up to $50,000 in fines. And if you are a director, you can be personally prosecuted for the company’s failure.
This is not new legislation. These penalties have always existed. What is new is Inland Revenue making it very clear they intend to enforce them.

If payroll in your business is run by someone who "just handles it" without documented processes, proper oversight, or compliance checks, this should be a priority conversation. Not next month. Now.
Payroll is not admin. It is one of the highest-risk compliance obligations a business carries. Treat it that way.

Full Revenue Alert:https://www.taxtechnical.ird.govt.nz/-/media/project/ir/tt/pdfs/revenue-alerts/2026/ra-26-01.pdf

16/03/2026

Payroll people will get this. Everyone else will think we’re exaggerating.
Every payroll team has one.
🔎 The person who catches the error hiding three formulas deep in a spreadsheet.
🔥 The one who spots the missing termination payout before the pays run explodes.
🧠 The one who can explain the Holidays Act without breaking into a cold sweat.

Calm under pressure.
Sharp on detail.
Deeply suspicious of anything that “looks about right.” 👀
We’re looking for that person.

🪖 Admin Army is hiring a Payroll Advisor.
You’ll run end-to-end NZ payroll across a portfolio of clients, review payroll processed by our global team (with proper scrutiny, not a polite glance), and handle the real-world payroll scenarios that make less experienced operators nervous.

Remote-first crew.
Detail obsessed.
Payroll done properly.
If payroll is genuinely your thing, have a look:
👉 https://www.seek.co.nz/job/90958238

Come join the Army.

Remote-first payroll role for an experienced operator ready to own a multi-client portfolio, review with real scrutiny, and raise the bar.

16/02/2026

If month-end feels like a crime scene, it’s not workload. It’s structure 🧱

Close doesn’t create chaos. It exposes what’s been sliding all month.
If your CFO is still fixing journals at 9pm, that’s not strategy. That’s compensation 🔍

We broke this down properly in the latest blog. If any of this feels familiar, it’s worth the read.
Full breakdown below 👇
https://adminarmy.co.nz/month-end-close-process-fix/

02/02/2026

Most payroll issues aren’t discovered.
They’re inherited.

You can run payroll for years without realising the system is quietly drifting.
All it takes is one role change, one misinterpreted rule or one historic assumption for the whole thing to surface in the worst possible way.

Leaders have two options:

Build a stable system internally.
Or bring in specialists to pressure-test the one you have.

Either way, pretending payroll is “simple” has never protected anyone.

If you want to see the architecture behind payroll risk – and what good looks like – the ebook is here --> https://adminarmy.co.nz/payroll-compliance-risk/

28/01/2026

Most leaders assume payroll is fine because no one has raised hell.
That is not how payroll exposure works.

Here are three questions from the Payroll Exposure Test:

Can you produce verification evidence for the last four pay cycles without recreating anything?

Has your payroll configuration been reviewed in the last twelve months?

Could someone new run payroll tomorrow using only your documentation?

If you cannot answer “yes” instantly, the answer is “no”.

The full test is in the ebook -->https://adminarmy.co.nz/payroll-compliance-risk/

It’s uncomfortable.
It should be.

22/01/2026

If 2026 is the year you want less admin nonsense and more money staying where it belongs, your bank account, Fergus is worth a look.

Job costing that actually adds up. Quotes and invoices that do not need babysitting. One place to run your crew, without the paperwork circus.

👉 Sign up before 31 January and get 90% off Fergus for 3 months.
Less desk time. Fewer headaches. Better margins. Revolutionary stuff. 🚀

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