Sage 300 People - Payroll Administrator

PTY; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 240,000; Part time

Job summary

Red Ember Recruitment (PTY) Ltd in Cape Town is seeking a Payroll Administrator with hands-on Sage 300 People experience to manage the full payroll function. The role focuses on accurate monthly and bi-weekly processing, maintaining payroll data, and ensuring on-time remuneration for staff.

Experience with statutory compliance and payroll reports is essential. The successful candidate will join a client’s Southern Suburbs team and contribute to efficient payroll cycles while upholding data

Qualifications

• Extensive payroll experience with monthly and bi-weekly processing.
• Hands-on Sage 300 People experience and training.
• Knowledge of statutory legislation and EMP201 submission.
• Experience with UIF submission and GL exports.
• Grade 12 and Sage 300 People training; 2 years in payroll preferred.

Responsibilities

• Process full payroll function accurately for monthly and bi-weekly cycles.
• Maintain and update employee databases and files.
• Load new employees, increases, earnings, deductions and company contributions.
• Process terminations and start-of-period procedures.
• Handle GL export, ACB export and UIF submissions.

Skills

Payroll processing

Employee Self Service experience

Education

Grade 12

Tools

Sage 300 People

Job description

Red Ember Recruitment (PTY) Ltd | Contract

Sage 300 People - Payroll Administrator

Cape Town, South Africa | Posted on 18/08/2026

Red Ember is seeking a Payroll Administrator to join our client’s team in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town. The successful candidate will have extensive payroll experience and must have hands‑on experience using Sage 300 People. This is a key role for an experienced payroll professional who can confidently manage accurate and timeous monthly and bi‑weekly payroll processing.

Payroll Administrator is responsible for the accurate processing of the full payroll function, thereby ensuring that the employees are correctly remunerated on time and that the database and files are maintained and updated correctly.

Basic functions and procedures on Sage 300 People software required for the successful completion of a payroll processing period:

• Accurate capturing of the following payroll input
• Loading new employees
• Increases
• Earnings
• Deductions
• Company contributions
• Terminations
• Capturing payroll input using batch functionality
• Knowledge of the content of Sage 300 People standard reports
• Reconciliation of payroll
• ACB Export
• General Ledger Export
• UIF submission
• Backup
• Start of period procedure

Knowledge required to ensure that the application of the payroll complies with statutory legislation as well as more in-depth functionalities on Sage 300 People Payroll software:

• Definition and application of RFI, SDL and OID
• Completion and submission of the EMP201
• Employee benefits administration
• Taxability of earnings
• Tax-deductibility of deductions
• Basic BCEA knowledge
• Medical aid fringe benefit
• Access control
• Creating an earning definition
• Creating a batch layout
• Stop further entry
• Tax year‑end procedures
• ODBC / BIM
• Sage 300 People Module knowledge and experience
• Job costing

Employee Self Service experience

Requirements

Grade 12

Sage 300 People training

2 years’ experience working in a Payroll environment (preferable)