Director: Rewards, Benefits & Payroll at University of the Western Cape/Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland

Reporting to the Executive Director: Human Resources, the Director: Rewards, Benefits & Payroll will manage and coordinate policies, processes, staff and to:

• Ensure accurate and timely delivery of the University Payroll
• Ensure the University’s compliance with all payroll tax, levy and other payroll-related legislation
• Perform required payroll accounting tasks. 
• Proactively manage the Payroll Delivery, Benefits Administration, Rewards Strategy, Payroll Budget, Management & HR Systems Management.

In addition to the above, the role of the Director: Rewards, Benefits & Payroll entails:  

• Leading and managing the Rewards, Benefits and Payroll functions and ensuring that UWC manages compensation within the budget parameters and successfully delivers the monthly Payroll 
• Managing the rewards policy and strategy implementation
• Ensuring relevant salary/survey data is available for rewards management
• Initiating procedures governing staff salaries, benefits and related issues
• Overseeing/driving ERP systems optimisation, explicitly focusing on delivering e-HR solutions
• Maintenance of job survey database to ensure proper benchmarking and pricing of jobs  
• Ensuring data input for both survey updates as well as salary increases
• Analysing and reporting on costs against Budget
• Engaging all stakeholders to enable effective tracking of staff costs
• Liaising with senior management, IT support, HR staff, Finance Department, etc. and submitting Budget Management recommendations

Minimum Requirements

• For this key leadership role in the Human Resources Department, we seek an accomplished Rewards, Benefits, Payroll & HR Systems specialist who will contribute substantially as a strategic role player to the HR operations.
• The successful candidate must have a Post-Graduate qualification, among others, in Financial Management at an NQF Level 8
• A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in senior management 
• Expert knowledge of all components impacting budget control and payroll delivery – from appointments to exits 
• A sound understanding of and experience in HR Payroll Systems
• Accreditation by the South African Rewards Association will be an added advantage/ Certified Payroll Practitioner (SAPA) designation/ SARA professional designation or an alternative accounting/payroll professional qualification
• Demonstrable experience of BCEA, EE, SDLA, Income Tax Act, COIDA and other relevant legislation
• Demonstrable experience of relevant payroll systems such as ITS, SAP, PeopleSoft

Added advantage:

• Experience of managing a complex payroll or payroll budget within Higher Education
• Relevant working experience gained in a tertiary educational environment in South Africa