HR GENERALIST: HRIS, RENUMERATION & BENEFITS

CAPE TOWN

PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR

Leading Pharmaceutical Company seeks seek a seasoned, self motivated and energetic HR Generalist with HRIS, Remuneration and Benefits experience who will be responsible for remuneration and benefits management. The successful incumbent will be responsible for managing the payroll to ensure that employees are paid correctly and that statutory requirements are met as well as provide remuneration reporting and analyses. In addition, maintaining HR systems and provides generalist support.

MIMIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Degree in HR Management or similar qualification (NQF)
Minimum of 5 years’ payroll processing, reconciliation & reporting experience
Minimum 3 years HR generalist experience
SAGE 300 People and Payroll software experience
MS Suite Advanced (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
Excellent understanding of legislation relating to remuneration, employee benefits and relevant taxation e.g. BCEA, UIF etc.
Advanced compensation modelling experience of at least 3 years
Advanced numerical ability
Exposure to employee benefits
Effective interpersonal and strong communication skills (Verbal and Written)
Advanced level of computer literaccy
Analytical, critical and synergetic thinking skills
Ability to exercise sound judgment
Ability to do accurate numeric calculations
Knowledge of accounting principles and practices
Effective problem-solving skills / Pro-active and forward thinking
Strong ethical values, highly professional and confidential

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

Payroll Management

Responsible for calculations and processing of payroll information, administrative procedures and complete documentation regarding movements
Responsible for calculating and administering short term incentives such as 13th cheques, management bonuses, retention bonuses and other variable pay schemes
Maintain documentation relating to the Company’s provident fund / pension scheme
Do final pay run, print reports and payslips and do backups of monthly payruns
Do reconciliation reports
Liaise with Finance, auditors and other third parties regarding among other payroll issues, position management and manpower
Attend to any other payroll related responsibilities as required, including confirmation of employment Compensation management

Salary review exercise

Ensure accurate and up to date submissions for salary surveys, including the Deloittes pharmaceutical survey, general survey and top executive survey, along with relevant fringe benefit and other surveys
Interpret salary survey data and conduct comparisons for individual staff and job families.

Business planning / budget & headcount process

Assist the HR Executive in collating spreadsheets and analyses, and in providing support to the business regarding salary and headcount projections for a planning period of up to five years
Prepares salary analysis reports for managers for management budgets
Maintain salary budget spreadsheets in this regard, and update same with recent payroll information
Assists HR Executive with HR & Facilities budget management

Benchmarking and grading

Assist the HR Executive with regard to internal benchmarking and maintaining the grading system

Employee benefits

Understand and interpret statutory requirements and how these impact on company benefits (e.g. pension/ provident fund, medical aid, etc.).


Remuneration administration

Staff Files

Assist in the implementation and maintenance of the HR databases e.g. travel profile, archive database, employee years of experience etc.]
Maintain and update employee information database


Employee Self Service

Provide support to staff and managers on the employee self-service (ESS) application


HR Systems Development

Key contact for HR systems and interfaces including SAGE People, ESS, Qliksense, Policy Passport, EStudy, SkillsMap etc.
Create and maintain procedure documentation for new and existing systems processes, for use by HR team and internal users
Support HR Executive with HR system upgrades and implementation including testing, vendor and employee communication and project management