About the position
The Finance Department seeks to appoint a suitably qualified candidate for the position of Payroll Officer to provide an efficient, accurate and timeous service to facilitate the administration and payment of employee remuneration and benefits.
Minimum Requirements:
- National Senior Certificate, an Accounting/Business Degree or studying towards one, or a National Diploma in Payroll with a minimum of 5 years' working experience in Payroll/Finance/Human Resources.
- Proven knowledge of Employee taxes, BCEA Act, Labour Law, and related legislation affecting employees.
- At least 1 year working knowledge of SAP: HCM & PY, ESS, GRC and SAP:FI modules or other similar ERP HCM/PY and FI experience.
- SAP Concur experience an added advantage.
Job responsibilities include the following:
Payroll Management
- Ensures that earnings, employer contributions, statutory and voluntary deductions have been accurately calculated, and accounted for.
- Ensure timeous payments to employees and third parties (employee service providers) (Discovery, Momentum, garnishee orders etc.)
- Liaise with service providers regarding payroll related matters (medical aid, retirement funding, group insurance.)
- Ensure timeous and accurate implementation and payment of ITA88 Third Party Appointments.
- Accurate and timeous monthly submission of EMP201 returns to SARS.
- Accurate and timeous bi-annual reconciliation and submission of EMP501 returns to SARS.
- Monthly UIF and ROE submissions to the Department of Labour.
- Annual ROE submissions to the Department of Labour.
- Ensure that payslips are produced accurately and made available to staff via ESS.
- Calculate and process termination payments.
- Calculate and process directors' payments.
- Prepare monthly reports as requested.
- Interpret awards/agreements and contracts concerning overtime, shift allowances, etc.
- Liaise with staff and management on payroll-related queries.
- Ensure that any correspondence relating to the payroll is properly actioned and filed in terms of POPIA.
- Be able to handle all payroll related queries.
- Check all overtime input captured by the HR department on SAP against overtime sheets.
Financial Accounting
- Accurate and timeous processing of payroll accrual and provision journals.
- Ensure accurate monthly reconciliation of general ledger and payroll system.
- Ensure timeous and accurate processing of all employee claims (km's, meals, advances, cellphones etc.) in line with SENTECH's policies.
- Investigate and follow up on general ledger reconciling differences identified.
- Ensuring S&T & expense reimbursements are correctly captured timeously and accurately.
- Maintenance of an accurate and organized filing system on a continuous basis, manually as well as on SharePoint.
- Assisting in preparation of month end and year-end journal entries, adjusting entries and accruals.
- Preparation of EFT file on any banking platform for transmission of weekly and monthly payments (reimbursement, salaries, and third-party payments).
- Have the ability to interface with auditors (Internal and External).
- Have the competence and willingness to perform other Payroll Officers' or Team Leader's job functions in their absence.
Skills and Competencies
- Customer service orientation
- Judgment / Problem solving
- Information monitoring
- Planning and Organizing
- Deadline driven
- Ability to work in a pressurized environment
- Attention to detail
- Teamwork / Collaboration
- Numerical ability
Sentech will give preference to suitable candidates who add to the cultural and gender diversity of the company.
If you are interested and meet the required criteria as described above, please send your CV on/or before 27 May 2024.
People with disabilities will be given preferences and they are encouraged to apply. Medical examinations will be undertaken before successful appointment depending on the nature of the position.
Sentech reserves the right not to appoint
Desired Skills:
- Proven knowledge of Employee taxes
- BCEA Act
- Labour Law
- and related legislation affecting employees.
- Payroll Administration
- SAP Payroll
Desired Work Experience:
- 5 to 10 years Payroll & Wages
Desired Qualification Level:
