HR performance is not incompatible with a company's financial performance. Quite the contrary, in fact: controlled management of payroll, social security contributions and DSN can become a powerful lever for secure your budgets and finance your HR projects.
At the end of the year, the same questions come up again and again in HR and finance departments:
- «The recruitment budget will decrease...»
- «We don't have the budget to launch this or that HR action...».»
- «This unforeseen event will worsen our margin...»
The result is HR projects postponed, frustrations and sometimes social risks untreated.
Yet HR teams have concrete levers at their disposal to not give up on their ambitions : social charges audit and DSN audit.
How can a payroll audit help finance your HR projects?
A social charges audit consists of a detailed analysis of your payroll and reporting practices in order to :
- identify overpayments and the possibilities of return,
- sometimes detect risk zones likely to generate a subsequent adjustment.
The frame of reference to keep in mind is that of the URSSAF checks. In 2024, they made it possible to regularize 890 million euros (+11 % compared with 2023), of which 734 million euros in reassessments by companies. They also generated 156 million euros in refunds to companies that had overpaid.
Source: URSSAF activity report for 2024 published in 2025.
These figures show two things:
- Calculation or parameterization errors remain very frequent,
- These errors can result in or through a costly turnaround, a loss of cash.
A well-conducted social security audit allows you to :
- of secure your practices with regard to labor law and URSSAF inspections,
- of limit unpleasant budget surprises,
- of create financial leeway to finance your HR priorities (recruitment, inclusion, QHCT...), disability, training, digitalization...).
DSN audit: what's at stake for your HR budget?
The Registered Social Declaration (DSN) is not just another technical feed to be sent each month. It has become the the cornerstone of your social compliancefrom managing your payroll and, more broadly, your HR/CSR strategy.
Every month :
- 2.23 million DSNs are transmitted,
- for 27 million employees,
- and 6 million errors are identified.
Source: URSSAF activity report for 2024 published in 2025.
In other words: you necessarily have compliance issues.
An imperfect DSN can lead to :
- of weakened social rights for your employees (daily allowances, retirement, unemployment, provident schemes, etc.),
- of miscalculated contributions (overpayments or under-declarations),
The widespread introduction of DSN substitution in 2026 will accentuate the risks and the need for action....
What if our audits didn't just put the brakes on your HR projects... but made them possible?
