HR Reporting Specialist

Red Ember Recruitment (PTY) Ltd; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency in Cape Town is seeking an HR Reporting Specialist to manage and optimize HR systems, ensuring data accuracy while providing technical support. The ideal candidate will have experience with Sage 300 People and a strong understanding of payroll systems. This position offers growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years relevant experience in payroll and HRIS systems.
• Experience with Sage 300 People is essential.
• Strong systems orientation and interest in automation.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate employee data within the HR system.
• Implement and maintain HR systems.
• Provide technical support to HR users on the HR system.
• Generate reports and create dashboards for HR metrics.

Skills

Data management

HRIS Systems

Payroll Management

Data Analysis

Excel

Education

Degree

Tools

Sage 300 People

Acumatica

Job description

Overview

Red Ember Recruitment is recruiting for HR Reporting Specialist for our client in Cape Town to maintain and optimize HR systems ensuring data accuracy and providing technical support and training to HR users to accurate employee data. This role requires a comprehensive understanding of payroll systems and processes as well as accounting principles to assist in enhancing current payroll and HR / Talent reporting processes. This is an exciting newly created position offering excellent challenge and growth. Experience with Sage 300 People is essential for this role.

Responsibilities

• Data Management: Ensure accurate and up-to-date employee data within the HR system including personal information, job details, compensation, benefits and performance records.
• System Management: Implement, maintain and optimize HR systems including HRIS (Human Resources Information System).
• Technical Support: Provide technical support and troubleshooting to HR users on the HR system.
• Reporting and Analysis: Analyse talent and employee data, generate reports and create dashboards to track key HR metrics.
• Produce accurate and high quality monthly, quarterly and ad-hoc reports on various employee data including, but not limited to, employee lists, headcount, staff movements, staff demographics, hierarchy levels, and regulatory/Board reporting.
• Enhance reporting tools and assist the Head of Centralised Services and Head of Talent in building a digitized employee reporting function, specifically developing people dashboards and reporting, working with identified service providers to enhance the HRIS and Payroll system (Sage 300 People).
• Compliance: Ensure data integrity and compliance with relevant regulations.
• Process Improvement: Identify areas for improvement in HR processes and workflows through data analysis.
• Assist the Talent team with special projects and other assignments; initial projects include developing a robust skills (study / membership) process to ensure accurate reporting and reconciliation.
• Assist the payroll and talent teams with special projects and other assignments.
• Oversee all aspects of the payroll process to ensure accurate and timely payment of employee salaries and compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
• Perform a critical review function.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of Sage payroll systems and processes as well as accounting principles to enhance payroll and HR / Talent reporting processes.
• Collaborate with the Payroll Administrator, Talent and Finance teams to maintain accurate employee data, ensuring all payroll-related processes and records are updated and reconciled on a monthly basis.
• Monthly reconciliation between payroll records and finance accounting records.
• Produce a monthly analysis of payroll movements feeding into the management accounts.
• Oversee payroll records, reports and documentation for auditing and legal purposes; act as the key point of contact for payroll audit.
• Responsible for workers’ compensation regulatory requirements.
• Partner with the Head of Centralised Services to ensure robust internal controls related to payroll and reporting.
• Stay up to date with changes in payroll laws and regulations, assess their impact on the company’s payroll practices and implement necessary adjustments to ensure compliance.

Required Experience

• 4-5 years relevant experience in a related role where you have worked with Payroll and HRIS systems and employee reporting.
• Experience with Sage 300 People; may be from a consulting capacity working with clients implementing or enhancing their use of Sage 300 People.
• Systems oriented with a keen interest in automation and digitization of the Payroll and HR Reporting environment.
• Exposure to Acumatica / related ERP systems is a distinct advantage.
• Comprehensive understanding of payroll systems and processes as well as accounting principles required.
• Strong Excel skills.

Required Qualification

A relevant financial / commercial / HR / business qualification is required.

Data management, HRIS Systems, Systems implementation, Sage 300 implementation, Data Analysis

Education

Degree

Key Skills

Employee Relations, Typing, Succession Planning, Human Resources Management, Military Experience, Case Management, Benefits Administration, HRIS, Payroll, ADP, Human Resources, Leadership Experience

Employment Details

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

Monthly Salary: 60000 - 60000