Payroll Governance and Transformation Specialist

Digital Outsource Services (Pty); Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Super Group International, a NYSE-listed digital gaming company behind Betway and Jackpot City, seeks a Payroll Governance and Transformation Specialist in Cape Town. You will drive automation, governance and analytics across payroll, ensuring SOX controls and data accuracy.

Collaborate with leadership to mitigate risk and improve efficiency. You will own the payroll controls framework, oversee reconciliations, respond to audits, and deliver insight through dashboards.

Qualifications

• Experience with end-to-end payroll processing and payroll controls.
• Knowledge of payroll legislation, tax laws and SOX requirements.
• Ability to design and implement automation, analytics and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Payroll Review: Manage end-to-end payroll processing, ensure accurate salary, bonus and deduction calculations using Payspace and Workday.
• Compliance & Reporting: Ensure payroll compliance and submit required reports for salary sign-off.
• Payroll Reconciliations: Oversee salary journals and monthly reconciliations across ERP systems.
• Tax Filing & Escalated Queries: Ensure accurate tax filing and handle complex payroll queries.
• Payroll Controls Framework: Own and maintain the payroll controls framework across entities.
• Audit Liaison & Remediation: Liaise with internal/external audits and track remediation.
• Automation & Analytics: Develop payroll automation roadmap and analytics to reduce manual effort.
• Automation Governance: Ensure automation changes follow formal change control.
• Automated Reconciliations & Exception Reporting: Build automated reconciliations and exception reports.
• Payroll Dashboards & Insight: Design and maintain payroll KPIs and dashboards.

Skills

Payroll processing

SOX/compliance

Payroll automation

Analytics

Controls testing

Risk assessment

ERP integration

Data governance

Tools

Payspace

Workday

Job description

Kick-start your career in the online gaming world and experience the very latest in technology and innovation.

Who we are

We're Super Group, the NYSE-listed digital gaming company behind some of the world's leading Sports and iGaming brands, including Betway and Jackpot City. We're a powerhouse built on decades of expertise and we're changing the game for good. Our mission is to give our customers a superclass entertainment experience.

Who we're looking for

We're on a thrilling journey of growth and innovation, and we need passionate, driven individuals to join us. At Super Group International, every day is action-packed, and we expect you to bring your A-game. In return, you'll find a supportive environment where your skills can flourish and your career can soar.

Ready to become a game-changer? Supercharge your career with us and be part of something extraordinary.

Why we need you

We're building experiences that wow our customers - and that starts with bold, curious people who want to do work that matters.

If you're hungry to grow, excited by impact and ready for a challenge that will supercharge your career, this could be your moment.

As a Payroll Governance and Transformation Specialist, you'll assist payroll to move beyond accurate processing and towards a controlled, automated and insight-driven function. In this evolved role you will retain accountability for core payroll accounting, while owning the payroll controls framework, driving automation under proper governance, and delivering analytics that give senior management and shareholders confidence in the numbers. You will be a key line of defence in our SOX and internal control environment, a custodian of sensitive payroll data, and a driver of business modernisation across all group payrolls. Your drive and ideas will help us move faster, improve smarter, and stay ahead of the game.

What you'll do

• Payroll Review: Manage and oversee the end-to-end payroll processing for employees, ensuring accurate calculations of salaries, bonuses, deductions, and other compensations using Payspace and Workday.
• Compliance & Reporting: Ensure compliance with payroll legislation, tax laws and other statutory obligations. Review and submit the completion of the following reports for salary sign off: summary of payroll changes; variance reports; overtime payments; loan payments and balances; and bonus payments.
• Payroll Reconciliations: Oversee salary journals from PaySpace into the ERP and monthly reconciliations (salary creditors to GL, salary control account, IRP5, employee loans to GL) and quarterly control account reconciliations in preparation for external audits.
• Tax Filing & Escalated Queries: Ensure accurate tax filing and payment per the relevant country tax laws, and act as the escalation point for complex payroll queries from employees and management.
• Payroll Controls Framework: Own, document and maintain the end-to-end payroll controls framework across all entities, including control design, control ownership, testing evidence and a RACI aligned to SOX requirements.
• Segregation of Duties (independence): Design and monitor controls independently of transaction input. Where you or your team process a payroll, that same payroll's control testing and approval must be performed by a different, independent reviewer; you will document the compensating review and maintain a clear SoD matrix so that no individual both inputs and self-approves a transaction.
• Risk Assessment: Conduct annual payroll risk assessments across all in-scope entities and jurisdictions, maintaining a payroll risk register mapping key risks to mitigating controls.
• SOX & Internal Control Coordination: Coordinate SOX and internal control activity for payroll, ensuring control operation, evidence retention and timely self-assessment.
• Audit Liaison & Remediation: Act as the primary liaison for internal and external audit, and track control deficiencies and remediation actions to closure.
• Continuous Controls Monitoring: Design and operate continuous / automated controls monitoring to detect exceptions (duplicate payments, ghost employees, out-of-policy changes) before pay-run finalisation.
• Automation & Analytics: Develop and deliver a payroll automation roadmap, identifying and prioritising opportunities to reduce manual effort across the payroll and journal-posting lifecycle.
• Automation Governance: Ensure every automation, RPA bot or scripted routine is built and maintained under formal change control - with documented requirements, testing/UAT sign-off, version control, and reviewer approval - so that automation does not introduce new, unmanaged control risk.
• Automated Reconciliations & Exception Reporting: Build and maintain automated reconciliations and exception reports that replace manual spreadsheet checks and surface anomalies for review.
• Payroll Dashboards & Insight: Design and maintain payroll dashboards and KPIs (cost, accurac