Key requirement
- Payspace experience-Must have Payspace payroll system experience
- Tertiary qualification and/or relevant payroll related qualification
- Budget experience: compilation and controlling of budgets essential
- Tax submissions
- Accounting background experience
- Very strong sound reconciliation experience
- Computer skills (both MS Word and Excel at advanced level)
- Payroll management (including management of capturing, reconciling, control processes)
- Knowledge of legislation applicable to payroll
- Report writing skills on payspace
- 10 years relevant payroll management experience of which 3 years must be in a managerial payroll role and 3 years in payroll system/implementation/interface role
- Complex payroll processing
- Extensive experience in financial monthly and weekly payrolls in excess of 1000 employees with multiple conditions of employment
- Solid financial and accounting acumen
- In-depth knowledge of the relevant labor laws, i.e LRA, BCEA, COIDA, OSHA, POPI, Income Tax Act, Wage Determination Act, as well as Bargaining Council Agreements and payroll best practices
Key responsibility
- Maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency of payroll processing, procedures and controls including the streamlining and automation of processes
- Regularly monitor and assess/audit integrity of payroll systems, rules, calculations and application of legislation
- Conduct payroll reviews and ensure accuracy of input and payments
- Implementation of remuneration policy, philosophy and practices
- Leading and managing the remuneration department and team
- End-of-months, end-of-year and end-of-tax year payroll reporting including financial reporting, provisions and reconciliations
- Develop, implement, mentor and train by continuously improving and writing payroll policies, procedures and administrative processes as well as internal workflows, processes and procedures
- Compiling and managing a departmental budget and monitoring against actuals
- Management of the payroll and Time & Attendance systems and interfaces to and from systems
- Ensure legal compliance on all aspects of the payroll functions