SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:
HR Generalist (Financial Services)
Cape Town
380k - R420k per annum.
A leading Investment Management firm dedicated to delivering innovative, high-performance solutions across global financial markets is hiring a HR Generalist. Reporting to the HR Manager, will play a vital role in supporting growth and success by enhancing the experience of all stakeholders through maintaining compliance, supporting recruitment and onboarding and enabling data driven decision-making through reliable HR reporting and record keeping. The HR Generalist will work closely with the HR team to support day-to-day operations and projects, ensuring alignment with the overall HR strategy.
Key Performance Areas
Talent Management
- Assist with the full recruitment life cycle, including sourcing candidates, liaising with agencies and stakeholders, screening CV’s, scheduling interviews and reference calling.
- Maintaining job specs.
- Minimize time-to-hire and approach recruitment with urgency
- Assist with benchmarking.
- Coordinate and support the HR team in the Induction and onboarding process for new starters, Including welcoming, socialising, onboarding, documentation, workspace setup, and welcome gift packs.
Learning and Development
- Coordinate and source all training.
- Conduct skills gap analysis.
- Maintain all training records and ensuring the relevant files are kept up to date.
- Assist with the preparation of documents for HR related training courses.
- Assist the HR team in the coordination and administration of the Graduate and Bursary programmes.
- Ensure that we meet BBBEE targets and find solutions for targets to be reached.
Record Management/ System & Reporting
- Provide comprehensive HR administrative support to all HR processes
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records including personnel data, contracts etc.
- Update all HR databases such as headcount and transformation sheets.
- Generate various reports based on employee data and leave.
- Compiling of monthly payroll inputs.
- Assist in benefits administration and employee relations.
Compliance
- Stay abreast of labour laws and HR regulations to ensure organisational compliance, including workplace health and safety.
- Assist with legislative and SETA reporting i.e. compiling WSP & ATR reports and EE.
Payroll
- Process monthly payroll on Sage VIP Payroll system, accurately and on schedule.
- Maintain and update payroll records, ensuring all employee data (new hires, terminations, salary changes, benefits, etc.) is accurate.
- Administer statutory deductions including PAYE, UIF, and SDL.
- Prepare and submit statutory returns to SARS and other relevant authorities.
- Manage employee queries related to pay slips, deductions, and benefits, resolving issues promptly.
- Reconcile payroll and prepare reports for HR and Finance department.
- Ensure compliance with the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA), Labour Relations Act, and SARS requirements.
- Assist with year-end processes such as IRP5/IT3(a) certificates and EMP501
General Human Resource Support
- Assist with various audits relating to EE, LRA, BCEA and BBBEE.
- Serve as an emergency stand-in for payroll and CCMA-related matters if other HR staff are unavailable.
- Ensure mitigation of risk in the HR department.
- Be a team player and support colleagues (as they will support you), with various HR initiatives and operational tasks.
- Ensure consistent execution of HR strategies across all touchpoints.
- General day-to-day administration.
- Maintain HR filing system.
- Handle general enquiries from employees regarding HR policies and procedures.
- Contribute to employee engagement and wellness initiatives.
- Take minutes of meetings.
- Assist in any other HR related project.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years experience in a HR generalist role, including 2-3 years of experience in recruitment is essential..
- Knowledge of labour laws and HR Best practices.
- Understanding of the employee life cycle.
- Understanding and experience in EE, Skills development and BBBEE.
- Sage VIP payroll experience.
