Job Description

Payroll
Consultant

Our client a dynamic and vibrant player in South Africa’s
financial services industry is looking for an experienced Payroll Consultant to
join their remarkable team.

As a member of the team, the primary focus of this role will
be to facilitate payroll administration and input on Sage 300.

Qualifications and experience

·Relevant tertiary qualification; a payroll
qualification beneficial

·Sage 300 experience essential (at least 2-4
years with current work output)

·Weekly payroll processing

·Payroll control account recon experience (at
least 2 -3 years witch current work output)

Duties & Responsibilities:

·Create new and terminate employees on Sage 300

·Update bank details, tax directive details and
cost centre changes on Sage 300

·Gather all payroll input by following a clearly
defined Activity Work Instruction

·Calculate monthly group life contributions and
submission of calc. sheet to reinsurer

·Facilitate payment to 3rd parties for group life
and group retirement annuity schemes

·Input monthly incentive scores, commission,
variable travel allowances, overtime, standby and reimbursements (via CSV
import into Sage 300)

·Create ESS logins and approve submissions (as
administrator) received for reimbursement,

·Overtime and standby claims, personal detail
changes and leave applications

·Exporting monthly payment files from Sage 300 to
banking platform

·Submit monthly EMP returns on efiling

·Submit monthly UIF declarations to department of
labour

·Submit annual COID return

·Complete validations in advance of annual easy
file submission for IRP5’s (and six-monthly reconciliation)

·Address payroll related queries and requests
from employees

·Analyse payroll problems and provide appropriate
solutions

·Work closely with the relevant Human Resource
and Finance teams to carry out payroll weekly processing and month end
processing

·Run Sage 300 reports and complete weekly and
monthly tasks by following a clearly defined Activity Work Instruction and
checklist

·Compile weekly and month end information to
share with Finance, by a specific deadline date, in line with a clearly defined
Activity Work Instruction (Finance will post relevant journals on Pastel)

·Complete weekly and monthly payroll control
account recons (Finance will post relevant journals on Paste

Skills

·PC literate and have working experience with MS
Office – Excel must be at an intermediate level

·Ability to work under pressure -
high-performance environment and may sometimes demand long hours from you

·Numeracy skills

·Accurate typing skills

·Excellent verbal and written communication
skills

·Ability to keep confidential information to
yourself

·Organized and have the right administrative
skills

·Quality driven

·Ability to pay attention to detail (accuracy is
important)

·Ability to work effectively with others and
contribute to the team’s accomplishment

·Ability to operate effectively under pressure

·Task and deadline orientated

·Strong sense of ownership and like to keep your
line manager in the loop on your work outputs and deadlines

·Ability to manage your own time and prioritize
your work outputs if needed

·Proactive and can multi-task