Junior Payroll Officer

Takealotcom; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market related package

Great work environment

Flexible benefits

Job summary

takealot.com in Cape Town is seeking a Junior Payroll Officer to join our team. You will capture new hires, banking details, salary changes, and terminations, while ensuring timely payroll processing and compliance.

The ideal candidate has 1–2 years in HR payroll admin, experience with time and attendance, and knowledge of South African legislation (UIF, PAYE, BCEA). We offer a market-related package and a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• HR diploma or equivalent.
• 1–2 years’ experience in HR admin with payroll exposure.
• Experience with time and attendance systems.
• Familiar with South African legislation (BCEA, UIF, SDA, PAYE, WCA).

Responsibilities

• Data Processing: Capture new hires, banking details, salary changes, and terminations into payroll systems.
• Time & Attendance: Verify overtime and track leave.
• Statutory Calculations: Assist with deductions and filings like UIF and PAYE.
• Query Resolution: Handle payroll questions from employees and managers.
• Reporting: Support month-end reconciliations and reporting tasks.
• Employee Documentation: Maintain and file payroll records; update changes timely.
• Payroll Projects: Contribute to payroll projects as required.
• Benefits: Assist with benefits management related to payroll.

Skills

Payroll

Excel

Data entry

Time & Attendance

Payroll compliance

Attention to detail

Communication

Teamwork

Problem solving

Education

HR Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Payroll software

HRIS

Job description

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Junior Payroll Officer to join our team in Cape Town.

We’re a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great!

The position reports to the Payroll Manager.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Data Processing: Capture new hires, banking details, salary changes, and terminations into the payroll systems within agreed SLA deadlines. Processing of Termination documentation as required.
• Time & Attendance: Verify employee overtime, and track annual, sick, or family responsibility leave etc
• Statutory Calculations: Assist with calculations for statutory deductions and filings like UIF and PAYE.
• Query Resolution: Handle routine internal and external payroll questions from employees and managers.
• Reporting: Support month-end reconciliations and reporting tasks
• Employee Documentation: Ensure that all payroll documentation is filed. Establishing/maintaining employee records; ensuring that employee changes are entered correctly and made on a timely basis.
• Payroll Projects: Contribute to Payroll projects when required
• Benefits: Assist with the management and implementation of benefits in relation to payroll.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Teritary qualification Businesss Management / Human Resources Diploma or equivalent
• At least 1 – 2 years’ experience in an HR admin role with specific experience in a payrolladministration environment
• Experience with time and attendance systems is required
• Experience working on ESS Knowledge of relevant, South African legislation (BCEA, UIF, SDA, PAYE, WCA)

Minimum Required Competencies:

• Accounting/Payroll knowledge sufficient to perform journal entries and payroll account reconciliations
• Payroll administration
• Payroll Processes and procedures
• Payroll queries handling
• Reporting
• Strong computer skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong problem solving skills
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment with diverse cultures
• Detail-obsession
• Advanced Excel

Attributes Required:

• Proactive
• Assertive
• Integrity
• Delivery orientated
• Can do attitude
• Ability to communicate and manage well at all levels of the organization
• Written and Verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently and work well in a team
• Customer service orientation
• Strong planning and organizing skills, and the ability to work under pressure
• Ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks and meet all deadlines
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise extreme discretion

The Environment:

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:

• is forthright but respectful
• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours)
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.
• thinks like an owner of the business.
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference