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

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qualification beneficial

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years with current work output)

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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

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Office - Excel must be at an intermediate level

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high-performance environment and may sometimes demand long hours from you

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skills

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yourself

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skills

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important)

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contribute to the team’s accomplishment

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line manager in the loop on your work outputs and deadlines

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your work outputs if needed

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