Core Description
- The Payroll Consultant will manage and execute end-to-end payroll operations across South Africa and multiple African countries, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency in line with local labour laws, tax regulations, and company policies.
- The role involves providing expert payroll advisory, supporting multi-country payroll integrations, and ensuring best practices in payroll governance and reporting.
Key Deliverables / Primary Functions
Payroll Management & Processing
- Manage the processing of payroll for South Africa and various African countries, ensuring timely and accurate payment of salaries.
- Validate payroll data including new hires, terminations, transfers, allowances, bonuses, deductions, statutory contributions and any customer configured components.
- Coordinate with customer to ensure accurate and compliant payroll execution.
- Perform aggregated complex data analyses to ensure that any existing gaps or variances in the payroll process are closed.
- Provide assistance to direct reports in the case of escalated payroll issues and provide effective resolutions to remedy and close out outstanding payroll query cases.
- Implement robust payroll controls to prevent errors and ensure compliance.
Compliance & Legislation
- Ensure full compliance with country-specific payroll laws, tax regulations, and statutory requirements (PAYE, UIF, SDL, social security, pensions, etc.).
- Keep updated and upskilled with legislative changes in African countries and adjust payroll processes accordingly.
- Prepare annual and monthly statutory returns in line with deadlines for each jurisdiction.
- Manage and report any issues to leadership to avert any payroll risks, regulatory compliance matters and/or data confidentiality breaches associated with payroll processing.
Systems & Reporting
- Administer all payroll functions using the payroll software (e.g., PaySpace and/or SAP) for multi-country payroll processing.
- Assist in payroll system configuration, testing, and enhancements.
- Generate payroll reports for Finance, HR, and management; ensure reconciliation with accounting systems.
- Complete monthly payroll checklists, SLA metrics, SOC and audit reports, maintain payroll compliance controls, and ensure all payroll-related documentation and reporting are securely stored in a designated SharePoint environment upon payroll completion.
Advisory & Stakeholder Support
- Provide expert payroll advice to customers and Senior Management when required.
- Act as a liaison with payroll service providers and statutory bodies on matters related to the payroll, if required.
Process Improvement & Projects
- Drive payroll process optimisation and standardisation across African operations.
- Implement best practices for payroll governance and compliance.
- Train and mentor payroll team members to build multi-country payroll expertise.
Core Functional Skills & Capabilities
- Analytical and Problem Solving
- Legislative knowledge
- Customer Orientation
- Technical Report writing
- Payroll Systems
Core Behavioural Competencies
- Presenting and Communicating information
- Delivering Results & Meeting customer expectations
- Planning & Organising
- Coping with pressures & setbacks
- Applying expertise & Technology
Minimum Qualifications
- NQF 6: 3 year Degree/ Diploma/ National Diploma in IT/Business/Commerce
- OR NQF 4: Grade 12
Additional Education -Preferred /Advantage
Experience
Minimum: 3+ years’ payroll processing experience in a payroll outsourcing environment, with at least 2 years in a senior/specialist or consulting payroll role.
- 3+ years’ experience in PaySpace Payroll System.
- Demonstrated experience in multi-country payroll management across Africa, including South Africa.
- Demonstrated experience in managing a range of multiple customers simultaneously.
- Strong knowledge of African payroll legislation, tax regimes, and compliance requirements.
Certifications
Professional Memberships in Relevant Industry
Level of Engagement & Span of Control
- Engagement will all levels within the organisation, internal and external to the business.
Special Requirements / Employment Condition
Workplace / Physical Requirements
- Hybrid Remote Worker
- Billable
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