Payroll Team Lead

Hollywoodbets; Durban; On-site; ZAR 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading South African betting company is seeking a Payroll Team Lead to manage payroll processing and ensure compliance. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in payroll, strong communication and project management skills, and a payroll-related qualification. Join a dynamic team in Durban and contribute to continued success and growth in the gaming industry.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing payroll operations effectively.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage processing and maintenance of payroll.
• Ensure statutory compliance for payroll operations.
• Manage and coach payroll team officers.

Skills

5 years’ experience in a payroll related position

Good communication skills

Project management skills

Analytical thinker

Education

A payroll related qualification

Tools

Google Analytics

Job description

Responsibilities

Being a part of the Hollywoodbets Purple Team is an opportunity to become a part of one of South Africa’s biggest success stories. From humble beginnings in Durban, Hollywoodbets has grown into a powerhouse brand operating across Africa and the United Kingdom. And that’s just the beginning. Our talented Team is on a mission to increase our global footprint, ready to take on any challenge because at Hollywoodbets, not even the sky is the limit. Join our Team and let’s reach for the stars.

We have an amazing opportunity for a Payroll Team Lead, to be based in Umhlanga, Durban. Do you think you have what it takes to be our newest Purple Star?

With Hollywoodbets You Will

• Innovate and create as part of a like‑minded, authentic Team eager to achieve goals.
• Embrace challenges and the thrill of working in a vibrant and fast‑paced industry.
• Grow with our development plans and culture that allows you to further your career.

You Bring

• 5 years’ experience in a payroll related position.

A Bonus To Have

• A payroll related qualification.

What You’ll Do For The Brand

• Oversee and manage processing and maintenance of South Africa and Africa payroll companies, as allocated on the payroll software system to ensure effective, accurate, complete and timeous payrolls and payments.
• Ensure statutory compliance:
  • Ensure legislative compliance for South Africa and African payrolls.
• Payroll Team:
  • Overseeing the relevant payroll officers and junior payroll officers.
  • Ensure effective collaboration and flow of information between the team members, including the other teams and team members within the payroll department.
  • Responsible for overseeing, monitoring, performance coaching, supervising and discipline, including leave and hours approval.
  • Providing support and query resolution for the team, ensuring all queries attended to within 24 hours. Document all Payroll Improvement Queries, elevate and ensure all are fully and timeously resolved.
  • Encourage practice of the companies’ values.
  • Ensure adherence to procedures, policies and deadlines.
  • Providing applicable training (including the whole payroll department) where required.
  • Ensure Continuous Improvement by looking for ways to improve payroll department in all areas i.e. processes, people, risk.
• Reporting and Reconciliation:
  • Overseeing, preparation, review and detailed checking of consolidated, monthly and other payroll packs, journals, reconciliations, statutory, costing and reports generated by the Payroll team as required, ensuring correctness and timeous completion.
  • Preparation and collation of finance salary, monthly and other packs and monthly, annual and ad hoc reports, analysis and reconciliations as required.
• Banking:
  • Oversee and check salary, external and out of cycle payments ensuring correct, accurate fully approved and timeous payments for payrolls allocated to the Payroll team.
• Responsible for all activities related to payroll processing any payrolls as required:
  • Process payroll and maintain payroll information accurately as required, ensuring all transactions are authorized, recorded and documented. This includes checking of transactions uploaded by other Payroll team members if applicable.
  • Ensure that salaries (spreadsheet and required documents) are signed off / authorized by the appropriate manager(s). Ensure that sign off (spreadsheet) balances to the payroll/pay register.
  • Ensure that salaries are correctly and timeously paid, and that provident fund, statutory and payroll related payments (external providers) are paid by the due dates.
  • Prepare and maintain related payroll packs, records, reports, summaries and journals.
• Stay current and test Payroll system delivered tax updates/updated payroll functionality changes or new functionalities that are released in the system and communicates these to the department.
• Provide support to all sections of the Payroll team, line managers and employees with Payroll related concerns and queries.
• SARS, statutory and external providers’ queries resolved.
• Performs other and related duties and general admin and projects as required.

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• Demonstrate good communication and reporting skills.
• Demonstrate good project management and multi-tasking skills.
• Google Analytics and other relevant analytic platforms
• Ability to communicate complex data insights clearly and effectively.
• Must have a keen eye for detail.
• Demonstrate proactiveness.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of accountability.
• Must be an analytical thinker.
• Ability to comply with company policy and values.
• A team player with exceptional organizational and technical skills.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to cope with many projects at any given time.
• Open-minded and willing to make changes swiftly.
• Possess the confidence to explain and sell ideas to colleagues.
• Enthusiastic and passionate about what you do.

So, are you ready to level up, learn, and perform at your best? Apply now!

Please be advised that should you not be contacted within 30 days, kindly consider your application to be unsuccessful.