Career Opportunities at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

All aspects of the payroll processing function including support of the HR Payroll Department during the weekly, biweekly, and monthly payroll processing cycles, research and configuration for payroll taxes, configuration of payroll deductions, on boarding and off boarding of employees for acquisitions, year-end processing and touch points with other SAP modules that impact payroll (Time, Accounts Payable, Finance, and others).

Key Responsibilities

• Configure SAP HCM Payroll system to meet client business requirements, testing and support for all fixes and enhancements.
• Testing and support for the annual SAP support pack implementations.
• Performs duties aligned with the business systems analyst role which includes incident support, development of business requirements documents, process maps, application testing, and training.
• Analyze, configure, and implement appropriate solutions with the support of the other Functional/Development Consultants when applicable
• Technically analyses program issues through debug.
• Provide advice and guidance regarding statutory/legal obligations.
• Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex systems problem and is responsible for aligning technology solutions with business strategies.

Additional Key Responsibilities

• Partners with the functional groups within the IT organization to communicate and clarify business needs, contribute to development of long-range system plans, and ensure products and services are aligned with business needs.
• Conduct knowledge transfer and training of end-users, including sharing best practices.
• Understands business process; can arrange their own tasks and workload and implement the strategy, with the aim of developing the business further. Accepts responsibility for own tasks and projects and manages these in terms of quality, productivity, and resources. Recognises risks in the project/ tasks and provides suggestions for minimising them.
• Uses own initiative to look for solutions/opportunities for improvement and is willing to make decisions; recognises overarching problems as well as political situations and escalates these if necessary.

Minimum Experience

• +5 years in business and HR functional knowledge.
• Knowledge of integration with SAP SuccessFactors.
• ABAP de-bug skills and experience to build/amend simple ABAP HCM based programs will be an advantage.
• Desirable to have knowledge of ESS and MSS.
• Knowledgeable in Personal Administration and OM will be an advantage.
• Experience managing the SAP HCM Time and Leave global design development and delivery.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong ability to facilitate discussions and negotiate mutually beneficial solutions when necessary.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Information Technology and Computer Sciences.
• SAP Certification.

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Purpose

To deliver quotes administrative services through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Minimum Experience

1 - 2 years experience in a similar environment

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [Level N/A: Pre-2009 was L6] in Finance Economics and Accounting

Additional Minimum Qualifications

Outputs

Process

• Accurately administer, plan for and complete financial activities within area of work in an efficient, effective and up to date manner.
• Utilise a variety of software packages to produce correspondence and documents and maintain associated records, spreadsheets and databases.
• Contribute to the provision of a comprehensive administrative service through the correct interpretation and application of procedures.
• Generate a variety of documents and where necessary produce reports according to set standards and prescribed guidelines.
• Accountable for own work quality, standards and outputs related to policies, procedures and defined processes.
• Proactively identify problems, apply known solutions and escalate more difficult problems.
• Plan for task execution and adjust priorities against an established plan.

Customer

• Resolve client queries and escalate problematic queries to the correct level to ensure prompt and effective resolution, enhancing the client experience.
• Executes activities to ensure customer service delivery that meets or exceeds customer expectations aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.

Finance

• Contribute to the effective and efficient administration of operational costs within budget, identify areas of financial risk and escalate.
• Adhere to specified standards, policies and procedures to prevent potential losses/wastage.

Learning and Growth

• Contribute positively to own area-specific knowledge improvement.

Governance

• Comply to set governance and compliance procedures and processes related to an area of work and continuously identify, rectify and escalate risks where necessary.

Competencies

Liberty Values

Technical Competencies

• Business IT Systems (Basic)
• Query resolution (Basic)
• Financial Acumen (Intermediate)
• Customer Relationship Management (Basic)

Behavioural Competencies

• Organisation and Attention to Detail (Basic)
• Interpersonal Effectiveness (Basic)
• Problem Solving and Analysis (Basic)
• Teamwork and Cooperation (Basic)
• Customer service orientation (Basic)
• Communicating with Impact (Basic)
• Relationship Management and Networking (Basic)
• Customer Orientation (Basic)