Payroll Consultant

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