Payroll Administrator at Discovery Limited

About Payroll

• The successful candidate will be responsible for assisting the payroll department with their daily functions. They will be responsible for but not limited to capturing and maintaining their assigned cost center employee payroll records.

Key Purpose of the role

• The successful candidate will be responsible for assisting the payroll department with their daily functions. They will be responsible for capturing and maintaining their cost center employee payroll records

 Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Attending to call centre queries
• Assisting with internal and external payroll queries
• Assist walk in clients at payroll front desk
• Reconciliation of input and salaries at QA’s and Recon stage
• Extracting of reports from VIP
• Inductions for new starters
• Calculation and preparation of claw backs
• Process separation agreements on payroll and apply for tax directives
• Capturing of LOA – new hires
• Capturing additional DEZ and central payroll input
• Processing various deductions for employees
• Preparing manual salary adjustment payments
• Employee transfers
• Process terminations
• Update changes in banking details, marital status, job titles, job levels etc
• Submit NMG pension and provident withdrawals
• Provide letter of employment and UI19 forms to employees
• Applying for tax numbers by use of SARS e-filing
• Importing payroll batches onto Sage
• Individual leave recons for employees and processing of leave adjustments
• Daily filing and scanning
• Ad-hoc payroll related duties
• Preparation of manual payments excluded from the monthly pay run cycle
• Backup to Payroll Administrators
• Maintain relationships with service providers and 3rd parties
• Maintain relationships with HRA’s and Cost Centre managers within Discovery
• Provide payslips and IRP5 to employees
• Drafting SOP’s

 Competencies and Attributes

• Follow processes and procedures
• Effectively resolve queries within a 24 hour resolution turnaround time
• Have strong organizing and time management skills
• Accurate and attention to detail
• Good MS Excel, MS Word and Outlook skills
• Take the initiative to make quick decisions
• Ability to find solutions to problems
• Meet deadlines and targets

 Education and Experience

• Minimum matric with mathematics and accounting
• Certificate/ diploma in accounting
• Certificate in Sage VIP People
• Microsoft proficiency
• Legislation knowledge of the Labour relations, Basic conditions of employment Act, SARS – PAYE, NMG, Paradigm
• computer literate
• Minimum of two years Sage VIP experience