Payroll Manager Row

Manage various different payrolls on SAP & Payspace for all of the AECI Operating Companies with a total staff compliment of approximately 6000 employees; differentiating between permanent and contract or fixed term staff. Ensure that an effective and efficient payroll management system is provided to the various countries within AECI.
- Develop the policies, procedures and standards related to Payroll, in line with all relevant procedural/legislative requirements and the overarching AECI business strategy.
- Remain current on new legislation and regulatory rulings influencing payroll and reporting requirements. Enforce adherence to requirements and advise management on required actions.
- Evaluate and analyse existing payroll policies and procedures; draft, propose and implement changes and/or quality control measures leading to best practice operations.
- Drive the development and adoption of relevant payroll systems including payroll delivery, vendor management and development of service level agreements metrics to meet business needs and ensure end-to-end controls for payroll.
- Lead the design, implementation and operational delivery of standardised payroll tools and maintain oversight over systems and relevant off-the-shelf modular updates, to enable continuous improvement of Payroll business processes
- Balance and reconcile payroll related payments and deductions to reports produced via the Payroll systems prior to transmission in order to validate confirmed reports.
- Timely review and sign off on all required payroll and tax reconciliations.
- Prepare and submit legislative returns, in conjunction with in Country Finance representative.
- Prepare accurately and timely reports as required by the Finance and HC Departments
- Reconciliation and submission of Employee benefits. Manage the interface of Employee benefits with the outsource service provider. Ensure reconciliations are done to match the records of the third parties.
- Ensures accuracy and completeness of data in master files and various support tools.
- Track and monitor the replication of data across HR and other AECI IT platforms, as well as other HR API integrations.
- Attend to errors and red flags on replication and API error reports.
- Prepare and distribute TAX certificates each year.
- Stakeholder management
- Budget and Capacity Management
- People Management of team

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- 3 Year Degree / Diploma (NQF 7) in Finance / Accounting / Economics / Business Analytics
- Certified Payroll Administration Practitioner (SAPA)
- 8 years’ experience in Payroll / Finance / Accounting environment, of which at least 2 years should at Supervisor/Specialist level.
- Experience in working across a broad spectrum of industries - from white collar to unionised environments
- SAP Cert HCM - Human Capital Management (advantage)
- Engagement with diverse, external international stakeholders in managing legislative risk.