(1533) Payroll Systems Administrator - FSD at South African Reserve Bank

Job Description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Enhance systems integration between the Human Resources Department and the Payroll Section, ensuring timely, accurate and complete payroll information.
• Analyse business requirements (payroll) and gap analysis to ensure that comprehensive testing can be performed.
• Compile test plans, test approaches, test scenarios and test cases to ensure a structured approach during testing.
• Compile user manuals and conduct end user training.
• Review and prepare business processes and procedures, analyse business needs and associated data, identify and assess possible solutions as well as define the associated requirements.
• Report on progress for all testing efforts, results and activities to support the final approval for implementation of the solution.
• Engage and collaborate with relevant stakeholders in analysing business needs and testing new requirements to ensure efficient payroll processes.
• Assess the impact on business due to system changes initiated by external factors, from within or outside the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), and make recommendations and implement system changes.
• Provide post-deployment support for solutions tested to ensure seamless implementation.
• Review and perform first-level authorisation of the monthly payroll parameter audit reports for accuracy, correctness and validity.
• Manage and supervise end-to-end testing of payroll system patches.
• Review and perform first-level authorisation of the monthly statutory payments to the South African Revenue Service (SARS).
• Prepare and submit the biannual payroll tax reconciliations (August and February) to SARS.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Analysis or Information Technology (NQF 7), or an equivalent qualification in a related field;
• three to five years’ experience within a financial system environment; and
• experience in the Human Capital Management (HCM) system or the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) payroll systems will be an added advantage.