Payroll Team Lead

3 weeks ago


Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Hollywoodbets Full time
Job title : Payroll Team LeadJob Location : KwaZulu-Natal, DurbanDeadline : March 20, 2025Quick Recommended Links
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    • We have an amazing opportunity for a Payroll Team Lead. Dyou think you have what it takes tbe our newest Purple Star?
    • The Payroll Team Lead will be responsible for legislative and procedural compliance and administration of the company's payroll systems, and payroll team whilst maintaining strict confidentiality standards. Responsible for timely and accurate delivery of payroll and related client service, including recordkeeping and reporting.

With Hollywoodbets You Will:

  • Innovate and create as part of a like-minded, authentic Team eager tachieve goals.
  • Embrace challenges and the thrill of working in a vibrant and fast-paced industry.
  • Grow with our development plans and culture that allows you tfurther your career.

You Bring:

  • 5 years' experience in a payroll related position

A Bonus THave:

  • Completed or studying towards a payroll related qualification

What You'll DFor The Brand:

  • Oversee and manage processing and maintenance of South Africa and Africa payroll companies, as allocated on the payroll software system tensure effective, accurate, complete and timeous payrolls and payments.

Ensure statutory compliance:

  • Ensure legislative compliance for South Africa and African payrolls.

Payroll Team:

  • Overseeing the relevant payroll officers and junior payroll officers.
  • Ensure effective collaboration and flow of information between the team members, including the other teams and team members within the payroll department.
  • Responsible for overseeing, monitoring, performance coaching, supervising and discipline, including leave and hours approval.
  • Providing support and query resolution for the team, ensuring all queries attended twithin 24 hours. Document all Payroll Improvement Queries, escalate and ensure all are fully and timeously resolved.
  • Encourage practice of the companies' values.
  • Ensure adherence tprocedures, policies and deadlines.
  • Providing applicable training (including the whole payroll department) where required.
  • Ensure Continuous Improvement by looking for ways timprove payroll department in all areas i.e. processes, people, risk.

Reporting and Reconciliation:

  • Overseeing, preparation, review and detailed checking of consolidated, monthly and other payroll packs, journals, reconciliations, statutory, costing and reports generated by the Payroll team as required, ensuring correctness and timeous completion.
  • Preparation and collation of finance salary, monthly and other packs and monthly, annual and ad hoc reports, analysis and reconciliations as required.

Banking:

  • Oversee and check salary, external and out of cycle payments ensuring correct, accurate fully approved and timeous payments for payrolls allocated tthe Payroll team.

Responsible for all activities related tpayroll processing any payrolls as required:

  • Process payroll and maintain payroll information accurately as required, ensuring all transactions are authorized, recorded and documented. This includes checking of transactions uploaded by other Payroll team members if applicable.
  • Ensure that salaries (spreadsheet and required documents) are signed off / authorized by the appropriate manager(s). Ensure that sign off (spreadsheet) balances tthe payroll/pay register.
  • Ensure that salaries are correctly and timeously paid, and that provident fund, statutory and payroll related payments (external providers) are paid by the due dates.
  • Prepare and maintain related payroll packs, records, reports, summaries and journals.
  • Stay current and test Payroll system delivered tax updates/updated payroll functionality changes or new functionalities that are released in the system and communicates these tthe department.
  • Provide support tall sections of the Payroll team, line managers and employees with Payroll related concerns and queries.
  • SARS, statutory and external providers' queries resolved.
  • Performs other and related duties and general admin and projects as required.

What You'll Bring The Team:

  • Have good communication and presentation skills.
  • Demonstrate good analytical skills along with the ability tpay attention tdetail.
  • Strong sense of accountability.
  • Demonstrate the ability tfacilitate workshops in a professional manner
  • Work under pressure and able tmeet deadlines.
  • Demonstrates exceptional level of customer service and quality skills
  • Must be able tplan effectively and efficiently in order tmeet deadlines.
  • Demonstrate good planning , manage and prioritize activities tendure monitoring of results taccomplish a goal.
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