6 Month Contract Payroll Administrator

4 days ago


Parktown, South Africa Thanda Human Capital Full time

**Job description**

We are looking for someone who is committed to processing the payroll and ensuring all processing tasks are carried out in an efficient and accurate manner. Working with integrity and with unity within the team to ensure all employees are paid accurately and on time, key to your success in this role is to follow internal processes to conduct payroll activities while translating the company vision and values into day-to-day activities.

You will be required to demonstrate personal commitment to stakeholders by fulfilling responsibilities, following agreements, involving others and removing obstacles to shared accomplishments; implementing corrective measures, improvements in the implementation of work processes, systems, procedures to improve payroll compliance and control. You should be highly organised and set a standard of excellence in everything that you do.

**What you'll be doing**
- Taking responsibility for accurate payroll input and effectively resolving queries from employees
- Ensuring compliance to payroll deadlines
- Working collaboratively with the payroll team to achieve team goals
- Ensuring the effective distribution of payslips
- Highlighting missing payroll data to Operations
- Assisting with the verification of banking details
- Regularly reviewing the accuracy of Masterfile data on the payroll system
- Assisting the Payroll Processing Manager with ad hoc tasks as required
- Behaving responsibly and efficiently in use of resources and services
- 3-5 years of previous Sage 300 Payroll experience
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience of SAGE 300
- Ability to understand and provide guidance on employee tax
- Proficient in MS Office
- Intermediate Excel skills
- Analytical skills
- Mathematical aptitude
- Administration
- Proven ability to work toward deadlines
- Strong organizational skills
- Excellent communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Solution orientated thinker
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail
- Technically minded
- Data Administration
- Executing payroll function
- Onboarding & terminations administration
- Uniform coordination and administration
- Employee benefits administration (Medical aid & Pension fund)
- Third-party administrations and payments
- Reports
- Tax year-end (balancing totals, E-Filing system, and IRP5s)
- Preparation for bonuses and salary reviews (annually)
- First point of contact for payroll queries
- Provide guidance on salary structure

**What you'll need**
- Matric
- Computer literacy with advanced MS Excel skills
- 3 year SAGE300 experience **(not negotiable)**:

- **Experience with a payroll headcount from 2000 to 5000 employees**:

- **Advanced excel experience (VLookup etc)**:

- 3 years’ payroll sage 300 experience
- Excellent customer service and stakeholder relationship building skills
- Excellent communications skills - both verbal and written (English Required)
- Clear credit, criminal and disciplinary records

**SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE MUST BE ABLE TO START WORK IMMEDIATELY**

**Job Type**: Contract
Contract length: 6 months

**Salary**: R22,000.00 - R25,000.00 per month

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Parktown, Gauteng: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- High School (matric) (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Sage300 payroll: 3 years (required)
- Weekly payroll on Sage300: 3 years (required)



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