Finance - Payroll Consultant at PwC South Africa

Job Description & Summary

• A career in Finance, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to help PwC in all aspects of our Finance internal function including financial planning and reporting, data analysis, and assisting leadership with overall strategy. You’ll focus on recording and analysing financial transactions, paying and receiving invoices, maintaining financial statement ledger accounts, and preparing analysis and reconciliations of bills to detect fraud.
• As a part of our Payroll team, you’ll help PwC manage and administer timely, accurate, and efficient processing of our payroll operations. You’ll help manage the Payroll account ledgers, prepare tax reports and documents, and perform routine internal audits to make sure our system is always compliant with federal, state, and local laws.
• To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

Purpose:  To perform payroll administration activities for the Payroll Department.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Receive and process salary input pertaining to the various payrolls
• Administer and process Camaf (medical aid), provident and pension fund documentation for new appointments and terminations
• Reconcile differences between Camaf payments and billing
• Ensure all changes have been properly processed on the VIP payroll system
• Check and sign off relevant departments at period close
• Update leave records on an ongoing basis
• Assist with preparation and distribution of monthly reports
• Print ad hoc reports from VIP as requested
• Liaise with Partners and senior management in local offices regarding payroll sign-off queries and follow-ups
• Attend to daily preparation of cheque requisitions and EFT payments
• Schedule Info slips and issue PUK codes
• Calculate monthly leave provision and import leave transactions into VIP
• Attend to all Payroll related queries received via Service Now tickets logged by staff (SNOW tickets).

Competencies/Skills:

• Knowledge of VIP (processing, importing, reporting)
• Knowledge of Oracle
• Working knowledge of Excel
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work part of a team
• Be accurate and detail orientated
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Prepared to work overtime if required
• Fluent in English and Afrikaans

Experience / Qualification:

• Minimum 3 years payroll experience of which 2 years in VIP payroll, Payroll Diploma and Bookkeeping experience will be an advantage