HR Generalist (Financial Services)

SET Recruitment Consultants; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 380,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in Cape Town is hiring an HR Generalist to support growth and compliance in the HR department. This position involves managing recruitment, payroll, and ensuring adherence to labour laws. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in Human Resource Management, with a minimum of 5 years of HR experience, including recruitment. Join a dynamic team focused on enhancing stakeholder experience and HR operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years experience in a HR generalist role.
• 2-3 years of experience in recruitment is essential.
• Knowledge of labour laws and HR best practices.

Responsibilities

• Support recruitment and onboarding processes.
• Maintain accurate employee records and generate reports.
• Ensure compliance with labour laws and organizational policies.

Skills

Recruitment lifecycle management

Sage VIP Payroll

Understanding of HR best practices

Labour laws knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resource Management

Job description

HR Generalist (Financial Services)

Cape Town

380k - R420k per annum.

A leading Investment Management firm dedicated to delivering innovative, high-performance solutions across global financial markets is hiring a HR Generalist. Reporting to the HR Manager, will play a vital role in supporting growth and success by enhancing the experience of all stakeholders through maintaining compliance, supporting recruitment and onboarding and enabling data driven decision-making through reliable HR reporting and record keeping. The HR Generalist will work closely with the HR team to support day-to-day operations and projects, ensuring alignment with the overall HR strategy.

Overview

A leading Investment Management firm dedicated to delivering innovative, high-performance solutions across global financial markets is hiring a HR Generalist. Reporting to the HR Manager, will play a vital role in supporting growth and success by enhancing the experience of all stakeholders through maintaining compliance, supporting recruitment and onboarding and enabling data driven decision-making through reliable HR reporting and record keeping. The HR Generalist will work closely with the HR team to support day-to-day operations and projects, ensuring alignment with the overall HR strategy.

Key Performance Areas

Talent Management

• Assist with the full recruitment life cycle, including sourcing candidates, liaising with agencies and stakeholders, screening CV’s, scheduling interviews and reference calling.
• Maintaining job specs.
• Minimize time-to-hire and approach recruitment with urgency
• Assist with benchmarking.
• Coordinate and support the HR team in the Induction and onboarding process for new starters, Including welcoming, socialising, onboarding, documentation, workspace setup, and welcome gift packs.

Learning and Development

• Coordinate and source all training.
• Conduct skills gap analysis.
• Maintain all training records and ensuring the relevant files are kept up to date.
• Assist with the preparation of documents for HR related training courses.
• Assist the HR team in the coordination and administration of the Graduate and Bursary programmes.
• Ensure that we meet BBBEE targets and find solutions for targets to be reached.

Record Management/ System & Reporting

• Provide comprehensive HR administrative support to all HR processes
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records including personnel data, contracts etc.
• Update all HR databases such as headcount and transformation sheets.
• Generate various reports based on employee data and leave.
• Compiling of monthly payroll inputs.
• Assist in benefits administration and employee relations.

Compliance

• Stay abreast of labour laws and HR regulations to ensure organisational compliance, including workplace health and safety.
• Assist with legislative and SETA reporting i.e. compiling WSP & ATR reports and EE.

Payroll

• Process monthly payroll on Sage VIP Payroll system, accurately and on schedule.
• Maintain and update payroll records, ensuring all employee data (new hires, terminations, salary changes, benefits, etc.) is accurate.
• Administer statutory deductions including PAYE, UIF, and SDL.
• Prepare and submit statutory returns to SARS and other relevant authorities.
• Manage employee queries related to pay slips, deductions, and benefits, resolving issues promptly.
• Reconcile payroll and prepare reports for HR and Finance department.
• Ensure compliance with the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA), Labour Relations Act, and SARS requirements.
• Assist with year-end processes such as IRP5/IT3(a) certificates and EMP501

General Human Resource Support

• Assist with various audits relating to EE, LRA, BCEA and BBBEE.
• Serve as an emergency stand-in for payroll and CCMA-related matters if other HR staff are unavailable.
• Ensure mitigation of risk in the HR department.
• Be a team player and support colleagues (as they will support you), with various HR initiatives and operational tasks.
• Ensure consistent execution of HR strategies across all touchpoints.
• General day-to-day administration.
• Maintain HR filing system.
• Handle general enquiries from employees regarding HR policies and procedures.
• Contribute to employee engagement and wellness initiatives.
• Take minutes of meetings.
• Assist in any other HR related project.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a HR generalist role, including 2-3 years of experience in recruitment is essential..
• Knowledge of labour laws and HR Best practices.
• Understanding of the employee life cycle.
• Understanding and experience in EE, Skills development and BBBEE.
• Sage VIP payroll experience.