Payroll Accountant (Perm)

Boardroom Appointments; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in South Africa seeks a Payroll Accountant to manage payroll reconciliation and journal entries. The ideal candidate has a BCom in Accounting, 3-5 years of payroll experience, and strong stakeholder engagement skills. You will work in a dynamic environment, collaborating closely with various business units to ensure accuracy in payroll processes and reporting.

Qualifications

• 3 - 5 years payroll experience required.
• Sound accounting and payroll principles essential.
• Banking and financial services exposure beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile payroll reports to payment summaries.
• Make payments for payroll and statutory charges.
• Process monthly payroll journal entries.

Skills

Reconciliation expertise

Data Analytics

Stakeholder engagement

Accounting principles

Education

BCom in Accounting

Payroll Administration

Job description

About the job Payroll Accountant (Perm)

Duties and responsibilities:

• Reconciliation of Company Payroll Oracle FRG reports to Company payment summary for Mainrun and Midrun payments.
• Make payments to Company for Mainrun, Midrun and Statutory charges
• Process monthly payroll journal entries to account for the payroll runs and clear control accounts
• Allocate payroll costs (like training, oracle charges etc) from cost centre PAD to the correct BUs
• Align and confirm ICPs with the Company
• Detailed review of the PAD general ledger to ensure completeness and accuracy
• Prepare and process journals to reallocate staff cost between cost centres for all staff movements
• Prepare Balance Sheet account reconciliations for all PAD control accounts and follow up with the Company on outstanding matters.
• Headcount reconciliation liaising with Human Capital
• Accounting for share trust recoveries
• Process monthly journal entries for incentive provisions and ensure completeness and accuracy of the General Ledger
• Prepare Balance Sheet account reconciliations for different incentive provision accounts
• Assist BUs with payroll related queries
• Update rolling monthly forecast for PAD cost centre in alignment with business expectation
• Budgeting and forecasting for the incentive provisions and share based payment costs
• Analyze actual performance vs Forecast and provide variance explanations
• Complete quarterly reports timeously and accurately
• Assist with running reports and reconciliation of bonus and share trust payments
• Provide auditors with all payroll reports and reconciliation and resolve audit and reporting queries
• Assist with preparing the IRP5 recons and responding to tax queries
• Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders, displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue, listen, advise, influence and negotiate to achieve win-win outcomes
• Engage stakeholders to obtain clear understanding of what is required by them
• Understanding of all balances in TB and with accurate disclosure for reporting
• Active participation in Finance transformation projects such as Project Prescient

Qualifications and experience:

• BCom in Accounting, Payroll Administration an advantage
• 3 - 5 years payroll experience
• Banking, and financial services exposure beneficial
• Sound accounting and payroll principles
• Data Analytics
• KPI and metric creation and reporting