Job Description

Entity:

People, Culture & Communications

Job Family Group:

HR Group

bp is reimagining energy for people and our planet.

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

At bp our P&C service solution are an integrated discipline. Movement between businesses, teams, and projects, takes place flexibly based on business need, activity flow, payroll services development needs and readiness for new experiences. We aim to provide broad growth opportunities in both standard processes, and project delivery when needed. This role may be placed to support any of bp’s business entities in South Africa, Angola, Nigeria and Ghana and may be required to support projects with a broader geographical foot.​

In this role you will be r esponsible for supporting P&C Services delivery which may include providing payroll services,
supporting internal P&C and cross P&C Delivery Centre operational and service management reporting, resolving complex queries or provide guidance on the organisational data change process and to process organisational data change requests and mass data uploads.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develops working relationships with internal partners to support successful delivery of P&C Services and leverage partnership opportunities, collaborating with other teams to assist in operational delivery of assigned portfolios and s upport adherence to standards and policies.

• Prepares and monitors payroll data ensuring processes and data are in place for payroll processing per local country requirements and regulations.

• Ensures integrity of Workday organisation structure data. Maintain. org units, jobs, position master data in Workday.

• Ensure that payroll deadlines are adhered to ensure timeous delivery of payroll runs and employee and salary payments.

• Processes large scale and /or complex re-organisations ensuring Organisation.

• Management processes and procedures are being followed

• Thoroughly investigate complex and often sensitive queries to develop the required level of understanding to quickly achieve problem resolution, leading customer expectations, and at times applying judgement based on a higher level of understanding of component systems, processes, and policies, being cognisant of setting precedent.

• Accountable for the analysis and fulfilment of Ad hoc Workday, Cornerstone, TAS and SAP reporting requests from the customer (providing existing and creating new reports in Workday).

• Accountable for the set up and management of all standard/scheduled workday reports.

• Applies knowledge of HR Services in order to support efforts to centralise, standardise and simplify HR administration, recommending potential continuous improvement opportunities.

• Follows the BP's Code of Conduct and models BP's Values & Behaviors.

• Performs Gap analysis and suggest solutions.

• Support any testing requirements for system upgrades/implementation of new requirements for the payroll solution.

• Representation of P&C benefits, policies, and processes.

• Attend to People care tickets diligently and professionally aligned to BP policies.

• Create new and Manage SOP within P&C local and other African countries.

• Maintain the UIF recon, ensuring accuracy of the data and records are align to th e applicable leavers code.

• Operational quarterly meeting with benefits principal officers.

• Manage statutory submissions including PAYE, UIF, SDL, STATSA and COIDA.

• Manage payroll deadlines, controls, and payroll processing procedures.

• Ensure accurate processing of overtime, leave, and payroll deductions.

Requirements:

Technical Capability

• Proven track record in managing payroll deliveries within the team in a shared service environment in a multi- national organization.

• Developing capability to reconciliations, payroll data management and identifying errors with minimum supervisory assistance.

• Expert knowledge of Payroll systems and reporting extraction and running of macros.

• Advance Excel abilities to enable macros and payroll checking excel formatted sheets.

• Tax knowledge in identifying with South African payroll-related legislation, tax regulations.

• Strong financial acumen in managing monthly recons in benefits and general ledgers/cost centers.

• Analysis monthly integration error log and correct where applicable.

• Managing FIRSHT platform and reconcile to ADP.

• Ability to convey technical payroll concepts/issues to all levels.

• High attention to detail, including the ability to sense check actual outputs against expected outputs to spot errors.

• Strong numeracy, analytical and interpretive skills.

• The ability to recognize issues and problem solve.

• Integrity and approachability, to discuss sensitive and confidential issues.

• Ability to create an automated platform to allow employees to submit payroll documents successfully.

Business Capability

• Strong business acumen.

• Customer focus – Puts the customer and business strategy at the heart of decision making. Ability to guide leaders through choices to best suit business requirements.

• Externally orientated – actively working on developing external connections, aware of standard process and actively learns from others.

• Ability to coordinate projects that impacts payroll and provide guidance to partners ensuring compliance and accuracy.

Essential Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Payroll Administration, Human Resources, Financial Managemen or other relevant field.

Essential experience and job requirements

• Advance knowledge of SAP.

• Knowledge of FIHRST Third Party Management.

• Experience with statutory submissions (EMP201, EMP501, COIDA, STATSSA).

• Foundational knowledge of Workday.

• Foundational knowledge of CRM systems.

• A continuous improvement approach; seeking simple, ‘best fit’ solutions to challenges.

• Demonstrated experience in Human Resources, proven capability and experience in delivering payroll management, payroll reconciliation, change management, and organizational development.

• Extensive Tax Expertise specifically for South Africa.

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.

Apply now!

Travel Requirement

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Customer service delivery excellence, Customer Service Design, Data Management, Decision Making, Developing and implementing strategy, Discovered resource estimation and assurance, Employee and labour relations (Inactive), Extract, Global Perspective, Information Security, Leading transformation, Management Reporting, Managing change, Managing strategic partnerships, Measurement and metrics, Organizational Knowledge, Performance and planning, Problem Solving, Project and programme management {+ 5 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.