P&C Payroll Specialist

BP International; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading multinational company is seeking a P&C Payroll Specialist in Johannesburg. The role involves managing payroll data, ensuring compliance with South African regulations, and engaging in continuous improvement practices. Candidates should have a bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of experience in payroll management. The company offers a hybrid work model, providing flexibility to manage work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Collaboration spaces

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• At least 3-5 years’ experience in Human Resources, especially in payroll management.
• Expertise in South African tax legislation is crucial.
• Ability to work in a shared service environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop relationships to support P&C service delivery.
• Monitor payroll data processes according to local regulations.
• Ensure adherence to payroll deadlines.
• Investigate complex payroll queries effectively.

Skills

Payroll deliveries management

Payroll data management

Advanced Excel

Tax knowledge

Financial acumen

Numeracy and analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Payroll Administration or Human Resources

Tools

SAP

Workday

CRM systems

Job description

Job title : P&C Payroll Specialist

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg Deadline : August 24, 2025 Quick Recommended Links

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KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Develops working relationships with internal customers to support successful delivery of P&C Services and leverage partnership opportunities, collaborating with other teams to assist in operational delivery of assigned portfolios and support consistency to standards and policies.

Prepares and monitors payroll data ensuring processes and data are in place for payroll processing per local country requirements and regulations.

Ensures integrity of Workday organisation structure data. Maintain. org units, jobs, position master data in Workday.

Ensure that payroll deadlines are adhered to ensure timeous delivery of payroll runs and employee and salary payments.

Processes large scale and / or complex re-organisations ensuring Organisation Management processes and procedures are being followed.

Thoroughly investigate complex and often critical queries to quickly achieve problem resolution, handling customer expectations, and at times applying judgement based on a higher level of understanding of component systems, processes, and policies, being cognisant of setting precedent.

Accountable for the analysis and fulfilment of Ad hoc Workday, Cornerstone, TAS and SAP reporting requests from the customer (providing existing and creating new reports in Workday).

Accountable for the set up and management of all standard / scheduled workday reports.

Applies knowledge of HR Services in order to support efforts to centralise, standardise and simplify HR administration, recommending potential continuous improvement opportunities.

Aligns with the BP's Code of Conduct and models BP's Values & Behaviors.

Performs Gap analysis and suggest solutions.

Supports any testing requirements for system upgrades / implementation of new requirements for the payroll solution.

Represents P&C benefits, policies, and processes.

Attends to People care tickets diligently and professionally aligned to BP policies.

Creates new and Manage SOP within P&C local and other African countries.

Maintains the UIF recon, ensuring accuracy of the data and records are align to the applicable leavers code.

Operational quarterly meeting with benefits principal officers.

Key Capabilities

Technical Capability

Proven track record in managing payroll deliveries within the team in a shared service environment in a multi- national organization.

Developing capability to reconciliations, payroll data management and identifying errors with minimum supervisory assistance

Expert knowledge of Payroll systems and reporting extraction and running of macros

Advance Excel abilities to enable macros and payroll checking excel formatted sheets.

Tax knowledge in identifying with South African payroll-related legislation, tax regulations,

Strong financial acumen in managing monthly recons in benefits and general ledgers / cost centers.

Analysis monthly integration error log and correct where applicable.

Managing FIRSHT platform and reconcile to ADP.

Ability to convey technical payroll concepts / issues to all levels.

High attention to detail, including the ability to sense check actual outputs against expected outputs to spot errors.

Strong numeracy, analytical and interpretive skills.

The ability to recognize issues and problem solve.

Integrity and approachability, to discuss sensitive and confidential issues.

Ability to create an automated platform to allow employees to submit payroll documents successfully.

Business Capability

Strong business insight

Customer focus – Puts the customer and business strategy at the heart of decision making.

Ability to guide leaders through choices to best suit business requirements.

Externally orientated – actively working on developing external connections, aware of best practice and actively learns from others.

Ability to coordinate projects that impacts payroll and provide guidance to stakeholders ensuring compliance and accuracy.

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION :

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Payroll Administration, Human Resources, or other relevant field.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE AND JOB REQUIREMENTS :

Advance application of SAP

Foundational knowledge of Workday

Extensive Tax Expertise specifically for South Africa

Foundational knowledge of CRM systems

A continuous improvement approach; seeking simple, ‘best fit’ solutions to challenges.

Requires at least 3- 5 years’ experience in Human Resources, proven capability and experience in delivering payroll management, payroll reconciliation, change management, and organizational development

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

degree relevant for Human Resources or Financial Management

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are important, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life.

These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits! We operate a hybrid model with 60% from the office and 40% from home with flexibility as agreed with line management.

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