Payroll Intern at Legalwise

About the position

Job Title: Intern: Payroll
Reporting Line: Manager: Human Capital
Department: People & Culture
Location: Allen's Nek, Roodepoort
Job Category: Hybrid - office based and remote working arrangement
Job Type: Fixed Term Contract - 12 months
Reference: LW048/2024

Our Commitment to Our Champions

Our Champions work for a common purpose; to empower affordable and timeous access to justice through which individuals can enforce and defend their legal rights. Our Champions are integral to delivering on our brand purpose, and we constantly seek to grow our circle of Champions to enable us to expand our circles of influence. What is important to us is that our Champions feel connected with our purpose, are committed to our vision, feel empowered and recognised. We are thus focused on building people-centred strategies and practices and providing career development opportunities to enable our people to reach their full potential, both professionally and personally. As testament of our commitment to our purpose and vision, LegalWise continues to be recognised as a Top Employer by the Top Employer Institute for 2024. We value our Champions the way we value our members.

About the role:

The People & Culture (P&C) department is in search for a Payroll Intern to join our committed and established Payroll team. You will be required to work closely under the guidance and supervision of the Payroll Administrators, to provide assistance in respect of handling the administration and reporting of various payrolls across the Group, in line with applicable legislative requirements.

We are looking for an individual that is highly organised, deadline-driven, has great attention to detail with good communication skills, and that displays extraordinary customer service and innovative problem-solving skills.

If you thrive in a fast-paced, engaging environment where you will be expected to take initiative and evolve the people offering and service then look no further, please apply.

You will be responsible for:

• Effective handling and resolution of payroll queries.
• Managing and processing of relevant payrolls where all transactions are accurately captured against employee payroll accounts for payment.
• All payrolls are finalized and ready for payment within prescribed monthly timelines.
• Effective handling of payroll payments with relevant banks.
• Ensuring that employees are timeously provided with relevant documentation inclusive of monthly payslips, personal tax certificates, unemployment insurance fund documents, etc.
• Responsible for payroll data integrity on the payroll system, ensuring that the payrolls are compliant with relevant labor legislation at all times.
• Responsible for the security and safe-keeping of payroll information and documentation.
• Liaises with relevant payroll service providers and third-party partners.
• Responsible for payroll reporting.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Matric/ Grade 12 and any relevant completed payroll diploma/ certificate.
• No Previous Experiance required.

Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Impressive administrative, planning, organisational and time management skills.
• Demonstrates exceptional attention to detail.
• Good report writing skills (verbal and written).
• Must have excellent attention to detail and high precision for accuracy.
• Must be deadline driven and be able to handle pressure.
• Must be able to effectively communicate at all levels in a professional manner.

LegalWise is committed to protecting your privacy. Your information will be used properly, lawfully, securely and transparently for the purpose of recruitment processes. LegalWise has implemented appropriate technical and organisational information security measures to help keep your information secure, accurate and current.

Please note that LegalWise applies all recruitment and selection processes to the requirements of the EE plan and is committed to transformation.

Closing date: 13 May 2024

If you haven't received feedback from us within two weeks of submitting your application, please consider it unsuccessful.

Desired Skills:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Impressive administrative
• planning
• organisational and time management skills
• Demonstrates exceptional attention to detail
• Good report writing skills (verbal and written)
• Must have excellent attention to detail and high precision for accuracy
• Must be deadline driven and be able to handle pressure
• Must be able to effectively communicate at all levels in a professional manner

About The Employer:

LegalWise dates back to the late 1970's. It was then that the founder Zak Crafford, a Legal Aid employee at the time, was paid a visit by a humble South African thanking him for his assistance on a case. He thanked him by handing him an envelope carrying R10. The man offered to continue paying the founder R10 every month if he agreed to provide him with legal assistance for the rest of his life. Although the innocent gesture could not be accepted, it certainly highlighted a significant need in society to provide legal protection. Legal protection insurance has existed since the early 1900's in Europe and arose due to various long and complicated legal disputes experienced by the public.