Payroll Accountant

4 days ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time R250 000 - R500 000 per year


Duties and responsibilities:

  • Reconciliation of Company Payroll Oracle FRG reports to Company payment summary for Mainrun and Midrun payments.
  • Make payments to Company for Mainrun, Midrun and Statutory charges
  • Process monthly payroll journal entries to account for the payroll runs and clear control accounts
  • Allocate payroll costs (like training, oracle charges etc) from cost centre PAD to the correct BUs
  • Align and confirm ICPs with the Company
  • Detailed review of the PAD general ledger to ensure completeness and accuracy
  • Prepare and process journals to reallocate staff cost between cost centres for all staff movements
  • Prepare Balance Sheet account reconciliations for all PAD control accounts and follow up with the Company on outstanding matters.
  • Headcount reconciliation liaising with Human Capital
  • Accounting for share trust recoveries
  • Process monthly journal entries for incentive provisions and ensure completeness and accuracy of the General Ledger
  • Prepare Balance Sheet account reconciliations for different incentive provision accounts
  • Assist BUs with payroll related queries
  • Update rolling monthly forecast for PAD cost centre in alignment with business expectation
  • Budgeting and forecasting for the incentive provisions and share based payment costs
  • Analyze actual performance vs Forecast and provide variance explanations
  • Complete quarterly reports timeously and accurately
  • Assist with running reports and reconciliation of bonus and share trust payments
  • Provide auditors with all payroll reports and reconciliation and resolve audit and reporting queries
  • Assist with preparing the IRP5 recons and responding to tax queries
  • Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders, displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue, listen, advise, influence and negotiate to achieve win-win outcomes
  • Engage stakeholders to obtain clear understanding of what is required by them
  • Understanding of all balances in TB and with accurate disclosure for reporting
  • Active participation in Finance transformation projects such as Project Prescient

Qualifications and experience:

  • BCom in Accounting, Payroll Administration an advantage
  • 3 - 5 years payroll experience
  • Banking, and financial services exposure beneficial
  • Sound accounting and payroll principles
  • Data Analytics
  • KPI and metric creation and reporting

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