Advanced Payroll Operations Consultant, Global Business Services

Job Description

Job title: Advanced Payroll Operations Consultant, GBS

Location: No K-C Work Site - South Africa (Remote)

Closing date: 16th November 2026, end of day

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

As part of Global Business Services (GBS), reporting to the Payroll Operations Team Leader, Eastern Europe, this role is responsible for delivering payroll and employer compliance services. The position supports the end-to-end payroll cycle through outsourced providers while ensuring compliance with local payroll, tax, and employment legislation.

In This Role, You Will

• Manage monthly payroll processing and validation activities with outsourced payroll providers.
• Ensure accurate and timely salary payments and statutory submissions.
• Monitor legislative changes and implement compliance requirements.
• Support annual payroll activities, audits, reporting, and regulatory filings.
• Maintain payroll policies, procedures, and internal controls.
• Manage payroll accounting activities, reconciliations, and payroll-related reporting.
• Administer benefits, pensions, LTIs and absence-related payroll processes.
• Act as the main point of contact for payroll queries and vendor escalations.
• Drive payroll process improvements and support payroll system changes.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following:

Job Requirements

• Strong payroll experience, preferably in an independent or small-team environment.
• Minimum 3 years of payroll accounting and payroll operations experience.
• Knowledge of payroll legislation, taxation, and employer compliance requirements.
• Experience with annual payroll activities, audits, and statutory reporting.
• SAP Payroll experience preferred.
• Experience supporting manufacturing payrolls
• Understanding of payroll accounting and general ledger processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a dynamic and changing environment, adapting at short notice where needed
• Fluent English, written and spoken.

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.

South Africa

• Reward and recognition – to attract and retain the best talent we offer competitive pay. We reward excellence and high performance through annual performance related increases and employee recognition awards.
• Great support for good health – we value good health, and to support you, you will have various options for medical insurance with a 50% employer contribution and Gap cover.
• Planning for the future – Being a member of the Provident fund will provide you with savings to provide an income after retirement.
• Protection for you and