Senior Payroll Administrator

SUMMARY:
Join a leading, multi-branch organisation where accuracy, efficiency, and excellence are at the core of everything they do.

POSITION INFO:
Company and Job Description:
Are you an experienced Payroll Professional with a passion for precision, compliance, and supporting people? My client is seeking a highly skilled Senior Payroll Administrator to join their dynamic Head Office team. This is a high-impact role that supports various branches and plays a crucial part in delivering smooth HR and payroll operations across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing monthly salary amendments, including new hires, terminations, fringe benefits, allowances, deductions, and other monthly changes.
• Maintaining accurate employee records on the VIP payroll system.
• Verifying employee banking details and importing wage hours/shift files from the time & attendance system.
• Processing weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly payrolls for the organisation.
• Ensuring payroll submissions, approvals, and deadlines are met consistently.
• Preparing and distributing payroll reports and payslips to branches.
• Resolving payroll-related queries promptly and professionally.
• Updating Employment Equity and Industrial Council information weekly.
• Performing monthly third-party reconciliations and assisting with EMP201 and EMP501 submissions.
• Processing provident fund withdrawals, UI19s, and salary schedules.
• Supporting HR and Accounts departments with documentation, reporting, and administrative tasks.
• Maintaining payroll procedures, including onboarding/offboarding processes.
• Assisting with audits, payroll-related projects, system improvements, and process standardisation.
• Administering HR queries relating to provident funds and IOD claims.
• Providing payroll-related reports as required by senior management.