Payroll Recons Administrator at Anglo American

Job Description:

You are responsible to contribute to the successful completion of GSS activities within agreed upon deadlines. The incumbent will also be primarily responsible for providing support with payroll general ledger balance sheet reconciliations.

Your key responsibilities will include:  

Under the leadership of the Payroll Assurance Coordinator, complete the following activities in accordance with agreed service levels

• Follow appropriate procedures to accurately, consistently and efficiently resolve payroll financial queries and provide guidance on completion of payroll account analysis and reconciliations on payroll general ledger accounts

• Investigate and close any escalated issues stemming from subordinates and escalate any issues that can’t be resolved to the appropriate position

• Drive compliance to audit findings and ensure quality implementation and resolution

• Actively collaborate within own team and in the wider payroll team to build capacity and relations

• Follow appropriate procedures to accurately, consistently and efficiently capture transactions or resolve queries

• Ensure that issues and incidents are logged, driving implementation of actions

• Facilitate appropriate stakeholder engagements to manage SLA deliverables

• Any other tasks as and when required

• Drive adherence to safety

This role is at a Band 8 level reporting to the Payroll Assurance Coordinator.

Qualifications:

Qualification required:

• Grade 12 certificate (essential)  

Experience required:

• 3-5 years payroll and/or payroll finance experience (essential)

• At least 2 years SAP HR/Finance proficiency

• Knowledge of SAP system (essential)

• Ability to effectively do payroll recons (essential)

• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and procedures

• Attention to detail & deadlines

• Microsoft Office experience with excellent Excel skills

Additional Information

• An incumbent must be cleared by the relevant credit checks

Additional information:

Anglo American Limited, Global Shared Services – Group Finance  

Anglo American has set its Burning Ambition to be the most valued mining company by all its stakeholders by 2023.  A high-performing Global Shared Services (GSS) function, able to assist in driving the functional transformation agenda, as well as provide a broad range of critical support services to the business, is a key enabler to delivering this strategic objective. 

The transformation of the existing GSS organisation will lay the foundations for GSS ambition to be a strategic asset for Anglo American and is therefore a critical project on the roadmap to delivering the Burning Ambition.   

Core to delivering the GSS vision is a customer-centric approach to service management that clearly defines accountabilities across end-to-end processes and enables meaningful performance discussions between GSS, the Business Units and Functions.