Payroll Specialist (6 month maternity contract)
O'Brien Recruitment
- R38,000 - R40,000 per month
- Contract Intermediate position
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Cape Town
- Posted 02 Jun 2026 by O'Brien Recruitment
- Expires in 34 days
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Job 2640100
About the position
Are you an experienced Payroll Specialist with exceptional attention to detail, strong technical payroll expertise, and proven experience managing a complex payroll environment?
Our client, a highly respected and established organisation, is seeking to appoint a top-tier payroll professional to take ownership of a busy and detail-driven payroll function for a maternity contract of 6 months. Essential: Strong VIP Payroll experience (Business Cloud)
This role requires an individual who thrives on accuracy, understands the importance of confidentiality, and can confidently manage a payroll environment involving permanent staff, pensioners, benefits administration, and complex payroll calculations.
Key Responsibilities
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Managing the payroll function for approximately 240 permanent staff members and pensioners
- Processing payroll accurately and timeously
- Managing payroll calculations relating to:
- Pension funds
- Medical assistance (medical aid)
- Housing allowances
- Staff loans
- Bonuses
- Salary adjustments and related payroll items
- Ensuring payroll compliance and accuracy
- Managing payroll reconciliations and payroll-related reporting
- Maintaining employee payroll records and system integrity
- Handling payroll queries professionally and confidentially
Minimum Requirements
To be considered for this opportunity, you will require:
- Essential: Strong VIP Payroll experience
- Proven payroll experience within a complex payroll environment
- Strong knowledge of payroll legislation and statutory deductions
- Experience handling benefits, pension-related calculations, and payroll reconciliations
- Strong numerical ability and excellent attention to detail
- Advanced accuracy and a highly structured working style
- Strong Excel skills advantageous
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone who is:
Highly professional and discreet
Exceptionally detail-oriented and process-driven
Structured, organised, and deadline focused
Calm under pressure and solutions driven
Able to work with highly confidential information
Of an exceptionally high calibre and professional standard
Desired Skills:
- Medical
- Payroll
- Pensions
- Sage VIP
- Tax
O'Brien Recruitment
About the agency
O’Brien Recruitment – what is our story and who are we?
O’Brien Recruitment has assisted in connecting the right candidates with the right clients since 1997. We love what we do and we are “POWERED BY PEOPLE” – making a difference in our candidates lives and watching their careers grow and develop is the reason we are in business!
Our Permanent, Temporary and Contract Recruitment Solutions unite talent with top employers across a vast range of industries, from FMCG; Financial Services; Call Centre; Retail to Publishing; Manufacturing; Legal and Hospitality. When you deal with O’Brien Recruitment you are dealing with a team of twenty professionals who are highly capable, knowledgeable and passionate about recruitment.
We pride ourselves on the ability to give our clients and candidates a competitive edge!
We payroll over 400 temps/contractors, and on an annual basis, we place over 350 talented individuals in permanent roles in a large variety of Job Functions from A – Z!
These include: Accountants, Bookkeepers; Call Centre Agents; Debtors Clerks; Engineers; Financial Managers; Graphic Designer; Human Resources; IT Specialists; Journalists; Key Accounts Managers; Legal; Mechanical Fitters; Network Engineers; Office support staff; Portfolio/Project Administrators; Quality Assurance Managers; Receptionists; Sales Executives; Tax Consultants; Unit Trust Administrators; Villa Managers; Welders; X-Ray Testers; Yard Foremen; Zoologists.
Whether you’re progressing to the next step up the career ladder, or building a bespoke recruitment strategy to meet your wider business goals, we help professionals make valuable connections that are crucial to success.
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