Payroll Administrator

Main job purpose

• Effectively administer payroll areas assigned, ensuring correct payments to employees and vendors, as well as cost allocation to finance.

Main Objective

• Maintain a high level of accuracy on all Payroll processing through adherence to Group Policies and Procedures as well as Statutory legislation.
• Ensure accurate payment to employees through pre payrun audits on employee biographical data and system calculations.
• Administer the Timekeeper access control system with regards to the issuing of cards, report distribution, uploading of time data for correct employee time allocation and payments.
• Manage the weekly wages payroll processing by performing weekly payruns, creation of bank files and transferring of employee salaries to the various Banks.
• Investigation of all Payroll related queries to establish whether it’s Administrative or System related, process administrative corrections and forward system errors to IT Service Provider for correction two weeks before next Payroll run.
• Balancing and reconciling of Payroll deductions to the Financial Accounting system for correct payments to 3rd party Vendors.

Critical job requirements

Qualification(s)     

• Grade 12     

Knowledge 

• Accounting             
• Pay processing
• MS Office                       

Skills

• Computer Skills
• Computer literacy , including using programs and spreadsheets
• Problem-solving abilities    
• Organizational skills
• Time- management expertise                 

Experience            

• 3 to 5 years’ experience in a payroll environment (weekly payroll would be advantageous)