Payroll Supervisor

**Listing reference**: mr_001575**Listing status**: Online-
**Position summary**

**Industry**:Mining & Quarrying
- **Job category**:Other: Mining**Location**:Bedfordview
- **Contract**:Permanent**Remuneration**:Market Related**Introduction**Job description**
- Supervise the daily activities of the payroll administrators effectively to ensure payroll runs are accurate and within deadlines
- Payroll inputs and outputs are effectively supervised, planned, controlled, checked and captured to ensure accuracy, data integrity and cost containment
- Generate and consolidate timeous payroll summaries, cost reports and head counts, balance sheet reconciliations, monthly journals and ad hoc reports
- Conduct payroll audits in all areas including payroll input, provide recommendations for areas of improvement
- Manage the leave, training, performance and development of team to ensure business continuity
- Effective stakeholder engagement with sites and other departments to ensure smooth payroll workflows
- Manual processes and calculations are effected in line with regulations, procedures and standards
- Self and team provide effective and efficient administrative support to the payroll department in line with country statutory laws and M&RC’s policies, standards and procedures
- Proactive payroll risk identification and mitigation in line with M&RC’s standards, policies, procedures
- Effective self and team management in alignment with M&RC values and leadership initiatives

**Minimum requirements**- Grade 12 or NQF 4 equivalent
- Minimum National Diploma: Payroll Administration Services NQF Level 5
- BCom Accounting / Finance / Human Resources Management (preferred)
- Registration with the South African Payroll Association (advantageous)
- Proficient in Sage 300 Payroll system (essential)
- Proficient in MS Office (Advanced Excel essential)
- Exposure to JDE or similar ERP system (advantageous)
- Ability to lead, supervise and train a team of payroll administrators through the full transactional flow of payroll processes and systems
- Sound numerical reasoning with excellent calculation ability
- Strong administration, planning, organising, control, delegation and prioritising skills
- Unwavering confidentiality and discretion
- High attention to detail and level of accuracy in all tasks
- Good English written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate effectively under pressure
- Minimum 6 years of full payroll function experience including reconciliations and journals
- Experience supervising across more than one payroll database of 1500 employees, preferably in a mining or construction environment
- At least 3 years of experience supervising a minimum of 2 team members on Sage 300 Payroll
- Experience gathering, collating and controlling large volumes of electronic/hard copy data and balancing large reconciliations within deadlines
- Experience implementing payroll processes effectively
- Excellent knowledge of POPIA, BCEA, Severance, COID and TAX statutory laws

**All appointments will be done in line with our employment equity strategy.**

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