PAYROLL OFFICER

SUMMARY:
Urgently seeking an experienced Payroll Officer for large manufacturing company situated in Boksburg.

POSITION INFO:

Essential attributes, skills and responsibilities

• Strong payroll and HR skills
• Hard working and approachable.
• Honest and trustworthy.
• Able to manage the entire HR and Payroll Dept. with the assistance of the Payroll Admin
• Able to take ownership of the role, hit the road running, go the extra mile & put the much-needed time & effort in to get the dept. running smoothly & efficiently
• 10+ years payroll administrator/management experience
• Non-corporate working environment.
• Strict attention to detail.

Payroll Skills – minimum requirement

• Strong Sage VIP Premier skills, including but not limited to:
• Able to setup and manage all the varying aspects of hourly paid staff
• Able to utilize a clocking system to manage employee hours, export from clocking system to import into VIP.
• Familiar with an ESS system
• Fully functional to activate leave pay during shutdown period, whilst understanding the effects thereof on the month’s figures
• Leave Module – fully functional and understands the setup and effects thereof
• Skills Module
• Setup and management of definitions
• Reporting – fully functional on both Reports and Maintenance, SMART reporting as well as payroll listing and history reporting
• MOC’s, MC & IC screens etc.
• Software updates
• Managing of back-ups
• Flexi Utility imports and exports
• GL exports and is able to understand the effects the VIP transactions have on the accounting side and able to manage this dynamic at the time of the payroll transaction in order to avoid payroll queries.
• Basically, able to manage the entire VIP payroll system accurately and efficiently
• MEIBC and MIBFA experience essential
• Management of all third-parties - payments, submissions, correspondence, applications, resignations etc.
• RMA Annual returns
• Biannual EMP501 on VIP and Easyfile
• Stats SA Questionnaires

 HR Skills

 Minimum requirement

 BCEA/MEIBC updates and adherence

• Employment contracts
• Company Policies & rules (Management)
• Employee Onboarding and Offboarding
• Employee benefits

Preferential

The role will include the involvement/management of:

• Employment equity, workplace skills plan (WSP), annual training reports (ATR)
• Health and Safety standards
• Legislation such as POPIA/FPAA/cybercrimes act etc.
• Employee wellness
• Disciplinary code & procedures/conflicts/grievances
• Employee wellness
• Recruitment/Talent retention/career planning
• Job descriptions/grading

 Computer Literacy – essential

• Sage VIP Premier – non-negotiable
• MS Office – especially Outlook and Excel (non-negotiable)
• Clocking system (Preferably Uniclox or equivalent)