Payroll Administrator

Alpla Packaging Sa (Pty) Ltd; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 600 000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Payroll Specialist to manage payroll processes effectively. This role involves handling employee engagements, terminations, and ensuring compliance with local laws. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of payroll processing experience and proficiency in Sage300 and Sage300 ESS. You will be responsible for creating salary transfer instructions, managing payroll reports, and supporting budget processes. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a dynamic team in a manufacturing environment, where your skills in payroll analysis and organizational abilities will be highly valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of payroll processing experience required.
• Experience with Sage300 and Sage300 ESS is essential.
• Knowledge of Tax Law and Labour Law is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Handle payroll processes, including employee engagement and terminations.
• Create salary transfer instructions and manage payroll reports.
• Ensure compliance with local laws and company policies.

Skills

Payroll Processing

Sage300

Time and Attendance Knowledge

Basic Accounting Knowledge

Tax Law Knowledge

BCEA Knowledge

Labour Law Knowledge

Organizational Skills

Time Management

MS Office Skills

Tools

Sage300 ESS

Jarrison

Job description

Responsibilities

• Handle payroll process – Load new engagements, employee internal movement, terminations.
• Load employee's fingerprint for clocking and time and attendance.
• Create final payroll file according to set timeline, ensuring adequate approval flow is respected up to and including bank transfer.
• Send a forecast to the Finance & Controlling Manager of the required amount for each bank one week before executing the salary payment.
• Responsible to create salary transfers instruction to be handed over to all payroll banks (electronically and manually), follow-up on execution on timely manner and archiving of documents.
• Distribute payslips on ESS and print manually for employees with no ESS.
• Send payroll report monthly to Payroll Manager for approval.
• Ensure that all allowances and deductions are applied and aligned with local law and any compensation related to company policy.
• Keep master data accurately at all times.
• Support with Budget process at yearend.
• Monitor the budget.
• Responsible for reporting to management (leave reports, overtime reports, employee movement, eMis reporting).
• Responsible for EMP201s submission.
• Responsible for ROE and EMP501 submission on time with no penalties.
• Responsible for distribution of IRP5s to employees and former employees.
• Prepare and submit third party recons and payments.
• Manage special situations like maternity / temp disabilities.
• Responsible for all HR Controlling reporting, including eMis data upload on a monthly and yearly basis.
• Support with setting ESS access to employees and training.
• Responsible for online Discovery and Momentum reconsideration.
• Support with Mauritius payroll.
• Knowledge and understanding of Bargaining Councils.

What makes you great

• Minimum 5 years payroll processing experience.
• Sage300 & Sage300 ESS payroll experience.
• Time and Attendance knowledge: preferable Jarrison.
• Basic accounting knowledge.
• Tax Law, BCEA and Labour law knowledge.
• African payroll experience (MUR especially).
• Full payroll analysis reporting experience.
• Payroll experience in a Manufacturing environment will be advantageous.
• Able to handle multi-task environment with profound organizational skills.
• Excellent time management and administration skills.
• Ability to research, interpret and analyse information.
• Strong MS Office skills especially in Excel and familiarity with HR systems.
• Excellent local language skills and good English skills.