Payroll Consultant

Payroll Consultant

 

Our client a dynamic and vibrant player in South Africa’s financial services industry is looking for an experienced Payroll Consultant to join their remarkable team. 

As a member of the team, the primary focus of this role will be to facilitate payroll administration and input on Sage 300.

Qualifications and experience

·        Relevant tertiary qualification; a payroll qualification beneficial

·        Sage 300 experience essential (at least 2-4 years with current work output)

·        Weekly payroll processing

·        Payroll control account recon experience (at least 2 -3 years witch current work output)

Duties & Responsibilities:

·        Create new and terminate employees on Sage 300

·        Update bank details, tax directive details and cost centre changes on Sage 300

·        Gather all payroll input by following a clearly defined Activity Work Instruction

·        Calculate monthly group life contributions and submission of calc. sheet to reinsurer

·        Facilitate payment to 3rd parties for group life and group retirement annuity schemes

·        Input monthly incentive scores, commission, variable travel allowances, overtime, standby and reimbursements (via CSV import into Sage 300)

·        Create ESS logins and approve submissions (as administrator) received for reimbursement,

·        Overtime and standby claims, personal detail changes and leave applications

·        Exporting monthly payment files from Sage 300 to banking platform

·        Submit monthly EMP returns on efiling

·        Submit monthly UIF declarations to department of labour

·        Submit annual COID return

·        Complete validations in advance of annual easy file submission for IRP5’s (and six-monthly reconciliation)

·        Address payroll related queries and requests from employees

·        Analyse payroll problems and provide appropriate solutions

·        Work closely with the relevant Human Resource and Finance teams to carry out payroll weekly processing and month end processing

·        Run Sage 300 reports and complete weekly and monthly tasks by following a clearly defined Activity Work Instruction and checklist

·        Compile weekly and month end information to share with Finance, by a specific deadline date, in line with a clearly defined Activity Work Instruction (Finance will post relevant journals on Pastel)

·        Complete weekly and monthly payroll control account recons (Finance will post relevant journals on Paste

Skills

·        PC literate and have working experience with MS Office – Excel must be at an intermediate level

·        Ability to work under pressure - high-performance environment and may sometimes demand long hours from you

·        Numeracy skills

·        Accurate typing skills

·        Excellent verbal and written communication skills

·        Ability to keep confidential information to yourself

·        Organized and have the right administrative skills

·        Quality driven

·        Ability to pay attention to detail (accuracy is important)

·        Ability to work effectively with others and contribute to the team’s accomplishment

·        Ability to operate effectively under pressure

·        Task and deadline orientated

·        Strong sense of ownership and like to keep your line manager in the loop on your work outputs and deadlines

·        Ability to manage your own time and prioritize your work outputs if needed

·        Proactive and can multi-task