Payroll Officer (VIP Payroll)

Accurate payslips, clean tax filings and happy staff: that's the job at a labour-heavy mining contractor in Kathu. It suits someone who likes knowing exactly what a good day's work looks like.

Home base is a labour-heavy mining contractor on the Kathu side of Northern Cape.

• Import clock-card data and check overtime against approved hours
• Submit monthly EMP201 returns and pay PAYE, UIF and SDL on eFiling
• Declare UIF on uFiling and help staff with UI-19 forms
• Compile bi-annual EMP501 reconciliations and issue IRP5 certificates
• Release the salary bank file for authorisation
• Capture new hires, terminations, increases and deductions before cut-off
• Submit Compensation Fund returns of earnings

• At least 2 years of full-function payroll
• You keep salary information private under POPIA
• Sound knowledge of PAYE, UIF, SDL and the BCEA
• Matric plus a payroll certificate or diploma
• Reliable with deadlines that cannot move
• Comfortable with Excel reconciliations

• Bargaining council wage experience, such as MIBCO or the security sector
• SAPP registration as a Payroll Practitioner
• Experience with medical aid and pension fund reconciliations

• Remote work outside payroll week
• Structured increases linked to certification
• Group life and disability cover

• Never attach real payslips from a past employer; blank out names if you use one as an example.
• Say how many employees you paid and how often, such as "1,200 weekly-paid staff on VIP"; volume matters.