Payroll Officer (VIP Payroll)

Accurate payslips, clean tax filings and happy staff: that's the job at a retail head office in Alberton. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

You'll be based at a retail head office in Alberton. Living nearby, or on a taxi route to it, really helps. The first two weeks are spent shadowing someone experienced.

• Submit Compensation Fund returns of earnings
• Calculate leave pay, notice pay and final pay under the BCEA
• Capture new hires, terminations, increases and deductions before cut-off
• Compile bi-annual EMP501 reconciliations and issue IRP5 certificates
• Import clock-card data and check overtime against approved hours

• Sound knowledge of PAYE, UIF, SDL and the BCEA
• You keep salary information private under POPIA
• Reliable with deadlines that cannot move
• At least 2 years of full-function payroll

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

• Paid SAPP membership
• Remote work outside payroll week
• Group life and disability cover

• Mention EMP501 and IRP5 by name; employers want proof you can handle the year-end tax cycle.
• Say how many employees you paid and how often, such as "1,200 weekly-paid staff on VIP"; volume matters.