Payroll Specialist

2 days ago

Cape Town, South Africa Time Personnel Full time

**Job Overview**:
**Date Posted**: Posted 44 mins ago-
**Location**: Cape Town, Western Cape-
**Job Title**: Payroll Specialist-
**Education Level**: Certificate-
**Job Level**: Intermediate-
**Minimum Experience**: 3 - 5 Years**Payroll Specialist job vacancy in Cape Town CBD.**:
Are you a Payroll Specialist who is ready for career growth to use your expertise with numbers and high-volume data to manage the full function of payroll for our modern well-established client based in Cape Town CBD?

Excellent communication skills, high level of confidentiality and integrity is required to ensure accurate and timeous processing of all payroll-related payments to employees and corporate institutions.

Responsibilities include calculating salaries, updating payroll systems and preparing internal and external tax reports, and conducting internal audits.

**Requirements**:

- Matric, Certificate in Payroll management
- High level of proficiency in MS Office (especially Excel, but also Word for mail merges)
- Certified Payroll Administrator Practitioner or Certified Payroll Practitioner advantageous
- Minimum 3-5 years’ work experience in a relevant position
- Proficiency in payroll software
- Experience with accounting software (Sage X3 advantageous) and preparation of payroll reconciliations
- Extensive knowledge of South African Labour and Tax Laws
- Experience with loading payments on banking platforms
- Ability to works well under pressure and meet deadlines
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Attention to detail

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Manage all aspects relating to payroll, from inception, with deductions and tax considerations, up to reparation of the payroll import files for the bank and tax payment files for SARS
- Ensure payroll taxes and deductions are correctly calculated and paid on time for both monthly and semi-annual reconciliations
- Prepare input documentation for external payroll maintenance company
- Processing any payroll changes as communicated by Human Capital such as new hires, terminations, increases, reimbursements, changes, and deductions etc.
- Review payroll reports generated from payroll software by the external payroll maintenance company
- Resolve issues and answer payroll-related questions relating to the external financial audit as well as any SARS enquiries
- Preparations of quarterly payroll reconciliations and recommendation of payroll journals to the Senior Accountants for processing in the accounting software package
- Submission and reconciliation of Workman’s Compensation notices and ensuring that payments are made within deadlines
- Ensure that a valid Letter of Good Standing is always in place for the relevant entities in South Africa
- Indirect reporting line to the Head of Human Capital for all leave activities and any other payroll enquiries
- Attending to payroll enquiries from employees in consultation with Head of Human Capital and Change Management
- Responsible for exploring potential deductions for the company with regard to Skills Development spend
- Monthly monitoring and reporting on all employee leave, including:

- Sick leave - identifying patterns and risk areas
- Study leave being correctly managed
- Leave-in-lieu being awarded
- Expiry of leave
- Reconciliation of leave between the various attendance systems
- Monitoring timesheet submission and ensuring all timesheets are submitted

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