Payroll Consultant

SUMMARY:
The primary focus of your role will be to facilitate payroll administration and input on Sage 300 for both monthly and weekly salaries

POSITION INFO:
Your work outputs will include weekly and monthly payroll. You’ll work closely with Human Resource and finance teams.
Your role may change over time, depending on your performance, your needs and the business’s needs.

Outputs:
- Create new and terminate employees on Sage 300
- Update bank details, tax directive details and cost centre changes on Sage 300
- Gather all payroll input by following a clearly defined Activity Work Instruction
- Calculate monthly group life contributions and submission of calc. sheet to reinsurer
- Facilitate payment to 3rd parties for group life and group retirement annuity schemes
- Input monthly incentive scores, commission, variable travel allowances, overtime, standby and reimbursements (via CSV import into Sage 300)
- Create ESS logins and approve submissions (as administrator) received for reimbursement,
- Overtime and standby claims, personal detail changes and leave applications
- Exporting monthly payment files from Sage 300 to banking platform
- Submit monthly EMP returns on efiling
- Submit monthly UIF declarations to department of labour
- Submit annual COID return
- Complete validations in advance of annual easy file submission for IRP5’s (and six monthly reconciliation)
- Address payroll related queries and requests from employees
- Analyse payroll problems and provide appropriate solutions
- Work closely with the relevant Human Resource and Finance teams to carry out payroll weekly processing and month end processing
- Run Sage 300 reports and complete weekly and monthly tasks by following a clearly defined Activity Work Instruction and checklist
- Compile weekly and month end information to share with Finance, by a specific deadline date, in line with a clearly defined Activity Work Instruction (Finance will post relevant journals on Pastel)
- Complete weekly and monthly payroll control account recons (Finance will post relevant journals on Pastel)
- Help our external auditors with information if needed and implement audit recommendations
- Liaising with internal stakeholders for invoices to be paid via our recurring and adhoc processes
- Adhoc facilities maintenance and procurement process

You’ll be based within the Enterprise Risk and Innovation division at  head office in Sandton, and you’ll report to the Senior Business Services Manager, who is accountable for payroll and business service functions.

Qualifications and experience
- Grade 12 or equivalent (Essential)
- Relevant tertiary qualification; a payroll qualification beneficial
- Sage 300 experience essential (at least 2 years with current work output)
- Weekly payroll processing
- Payroll control account recon experience (at least 2 years)

Skills
- PC literate and have working experience with MS Office – Excel must be at an intermediate level
- Ability to work under pressure - high-performance environment and may sometimes demand long hours from you
- Numeracy skills
- Accurate typing skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to keep confidential information to yourself
- Organised and have the right administrative skills
- Quality driven
- Ability to pay attention to detail (accuracy is important)
- Ability to work effectively with others and contribute to the team’s accomplishment
- Ability to operate effectively under pressure
- Task and deadline orientated
- Strong sense of ownership and like to keep your line manager in the loop on your work outputs and deadlines
- Ability to manage your own time and prioritise your work outputs if needed
- Proactive and can multi-task

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