PAYROLL ANALYST at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key purpose:

• The key purpose as the Payroll Analyst is to be responsible for the end-to-end expat payroll functionality. This includes processing payroll for expats across the Africa Zone, data integrity checks, ensure Zero percent error rate on the expats payroll, implementing legislative changes, performing audits, managing queries within the SLA as well as stakeholder engagement.

Key outputs and responsibilities:

• Day-to-day payroll administration on managed service (expat payroll)
• Meeting all day-to-day statutory and business compliance requirements
• Monitoring of payroll KPI’s through Buddy, Snow and SharePoint
• Conduct regular audit on data integrity to align with processes and policies
• Investigate and correct any errors in the case of system or process issues
• Preparing monthly payrolls according to schedule, preparing documentation to support monthly approval by Payroll Lead/Payroll controller, accurately and on time
• Management of payroll reporting and weekly EFT payments
• Ensuring that segregation of duties and data protection standards are met
• Providing training to payroll administrators to ensure understanding and continuous capability building
• Working with internal and external audit teams to ensure that systems and processes meet best practice to mitigate risk
• Supporting process and systems relating to proper filling of payroll documentations including the payroll mailbox
• Providing monthly details reports pertaining to payroll KPI’s for tracking, measurements, and analysis
• Participating in payroll related projects
• Identify, analyze, and resolve payroll queries as they are escalated through BP’s, managers, and employees
• Serve as a backup to payroll administrators as a when needed
• Ad-hoc payroll related duties

Key Attributes and competencies:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting (Finance background is advantageous)
• 5+ years of experience in payroll processing in Africa on a zone scale. Preferably experience on a multi-country payroll environment. 
• Sound knowledge on Personal Income Tax, Wage Tax and Social Security regulations in the different countries of Africa Zone.
• Sound knowledge of payroll accounting, payroll compliances and audits.
• Fulltime bachelor’s degree (accounting/finance background is a plus)
• Thrives in a global environment, working flexibly where required.
• Must be fluent in English.
• Proficiency in using MS Office tools (MS Outlook, Teams, Excel etc.).
• Experience in HR systems preferably SAP and PaySpace.
• Extensive knowledge on expat payroll