Payroll Clerk (Sage 300 People, Weekly Paid Staff)

Accurate payslips, clean tax filings and happy staff: that's the job at a retail head office in Mossel Bay. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

The work is in Mossel Bay, Western Cape, so you'll need a reliable way to get there every day.

• Submit Compensation Fund returns of earnings
• Process garnishee orders and third-party deductions
• Release the salary bank file for authorisation
• Calculate leave pay, notice pay and final pay under the BCEA
• Compile bi-annual EMP501 reconciliations and issue IRP5 certificates
• Declare UIF on uFiling and help staff with UI-19 forms
• Import clock-card data and check overtime against approved hours

• Matric plus a payroll certificate or diploma
• Sound knowledge of PAYE, UIF, SDL and the BCEA
• Reliable with deadlines that cannot move
• At least 2 years of full-function payroll

• SAPP registration as a Payroll Practitioner
• Bargaining council wage experience, such as MIBCO or the security sector
• Knowledge of employment equity and WSP reporting

• Remote work outside payroll week
• Paid SAPP membership
• Structured increases linked to certification

• Mention EMP501 and IRP5 by name; employers want proof you can handle the year-end tax cycle.
• Never attach real payslips from a past employer; blank out names if you use one as an example.