{"id":4247479,"url":"https://alion.io/job/torga-optical-pty-payroll-officer-full-function-jhb-cresta","title":"Payroll Officer - Full function (JHB Cresta)","company":{"id":4541249,"name":"Torga Optical PTY","domain":"torgaoptical.co.za","url":"https://alion.io/company/torga-optical-pty","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["South Africa"],"countries":["ZA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Excel","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-13T12:11:35Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T12:11:35Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Introduction\nTorga Optical is looking for an experienced and detail-oriented Payroll Officer to join our Head Office team.\n\nWe are looking for a confident, hands-on payroll professional who can take ownership of the monthly payroll process, ensuring accuracy, compliance and the efficient administration of payroll-related matters.\n\nThe ideal candidate will be organised, analytical, comfortable working independently and capable of managing payroll deadlines within a fast-paced retail environment.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n Manage and coordinate the full monthly payroll cycle.\n\n Process salaries, overtime, incentives, allowances and deductions.\n\n Ensure accurate payroll inputs, reconciliations and employee records.\n\n Administer employee leave, new appointments, terminations and payroll changes.\n\n Manage payroll queries and resolve discrepancies timeously.\n\n Ensure payslips, tax documentation and payroll reports and accurately prepared.\n\n Manage statutory requirements, including UIF submissions and uFiling.\n\n Maintain accurate and confidential employee payroll records.\n\n Ensure payroll processes comply with applicable labour legislation and statutory requirements.\n\n Work closely with HR, Finance and management to ensure effective payroll administration.\n\nDesired Experience & Qualification\n\n Relevant three-year tertiary qualification with practical experience.\n\n 4-5 years' payroll experience.\n\n Strong working knowledge of Sage Payroll/Simplepay systems.\n\n Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.\n\nPackage & Remuneration\n\n Competitive salary.\n\n Opportunity to work with fast-growing leading Retail Optometry brand.\n\n Professional and supportive working environment.\n\nInterested?\nIf you have the experience and confidence to manage a busy payroll function and if you're organised, reliable and take pride in getting the details right, we would like to hear from you.\n\nPlease apply online or email your CV to ","description_format":"text","description_chars":1945,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-13T12:59:30Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":26,"reasons":["seen:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-14T05:58:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/torga-optical-pty-payroll-officer-full-function-jhb-cresta","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/torga-optical-pty-payroll-officer-full-function-jhb-cresta.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-14T19:28:02Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":23893,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4541249},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4541249"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ftorga-optical-pty-payroll-officer-full-function-jhb-cresta"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ftorga-optical-pty-payroll-officer-full-function-jhb-cresta"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ftorga-optical-pty-payroll-officer-full-function-jhb-cresta"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/torga-optical-pty-payroll-officer-full-function-jhb-cresta\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ftorga-optical-pty-payroll-officer-full-function-jhb-cresta"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4247479}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"torgaoptical.co.za","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4247479},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}