Group - Payroll Administrator

Main job purpose
Effectively administer payroll areas assigned, ensuring correct payments to employees and vendors, as well as cost allocation to finance.

Main Objective
Maintain a high level of accuracy on all Payroll processing through adherence to Group Policies and Procedures as well as Statutory legislation.
Ensure accurate payment to employees through pre payrun audits on employee biographical data and system calculations.
Administer the Timekeeper access control system with regards to the issuing of cards, report distribution, uploading of time data for correct employee time allocation and payments.
Manage the weekly wages payroll processing by performing weekly payruns, creation of bank files and transferring of employee salaries to the various Banks.
Investigation of all Payroll related queries to establish whether it’s Administrative or System related, process administrative corrections and forward system errors to IT Service Provider for correction two weeks before next Payroll run.
Balancing and reconciling of Payroll deductions to the Financial Accounting system for correct payments to 3rd party Vendors.

Critical job requirements
Grade 12
Payroll Diploma
Accounting
Pay processing
SA Taxation
MS Office

Experience
Minimum 10 years’ experience in a payroll environment, of which at least 5 years administering a weekly payroll
MIBCO knowledge a distinct advantage