Job Description

Duties and responsibilities:

• Reconciliation of Company Payroll Oracle FRG reports to 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 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
• Budging & Forecasting
• 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
• Quarterly, bi-annual and annual reporting
• 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 (especially Group), 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