Johannesburg: Senior Payroll Administrator

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Payroll Administrator to join our team at our Support Centre in Vereeniging, Johannesburg, Gauteng. The successful candidate will complement our payroll operations and ensure seamless processing of employee payments.

Key Responsibilities

• Set Up New Hires: This includes processing new employee information, including bank details.
• Process Resignations and Terminations: Ensure proper procedures are followed for employee departures.
• Manage Fixed-Term Contracts: Track contract expiry dates to avoid disruptions.
• Process Leave Requests: Handle employees leave requests efficiently.
• Load Employee Data: Upload employee data from the payroll system to JEM online for monthly pay slip distribution.
• Payroll Processing and Calculations: Time and Attendance Check timecards individually each month to make sure that employees hours pull through correctly and send queries to the payroll admin coordinator (PAC) to correct on system.
• Salary reports: Extract and check salary cost reports and make notes for the Group Financial Manager to approve.
• Factory report: Extract and distribute factory reports to the Factory Managers
• Process Salary Payments: Load salaries onto the Nedbank system, including regular and ad-hoc payments.
• Medical aid monthly: Checking and submitting of all medical aid forms to Discovery and Kaelo (Medical Insurance).
• Capturing the contributions to Sage for all business units (this includes changes for the month)
• Medical Aid yearly: update yearly medical aid increases on Sage and check against billing statement.
• Update premiums with Aug salary increases and inform medical aid of changes.
• Job titles: loading and linking Job titles on Sage (Hierarchy).
• Salary increases: Capture increases on the system and check correspondence with the approved schedule and letters.
• Process Bonuses: Manage monthly bonus calculations and tax implications.
• Process December bonus payouts
• Process Travel Claims: Handle employee travel claims submissions.
• Process Deductions: Manage various deductions like garnishments and staff accounts.
• Leave management: This involves extracting leave reports to track remaining leave balances and sending them to the HR Manager.
• Third-Party Management and Reporting: Reconciling of all third-party payments: Verify and record medical aid, pension, provident fund contributions, Unions and ITA88, on SAP.
• Process EMP201, UIF, and EMP501: Prepare and submit these government forms, Monthly Biannually and yearly for the EMP201 and EMP501.
• Capturing monthly payments on SAP and processing them through the bank.
• Extraction and submission of UIF declarations monthly.
• Process Third-Party Payments: Handle monthly payments to third-party vendors on Nedbank and distribute the proof of payments and schedules to third-party vendors.
• Reconcile Accounts: Ensure consistency between payroll data in Sage and SAP systems.

Requirements

• Diploma or degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in payroll administration, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Must have experience in Sage 300 and/or Pace Space.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
• Able to work every second weekend and overtime when needed.

Qualifications

• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) or similar certifications an advantage
• Proficient in payroll software, such as Sage, SAP, or similar.