Senior Payroll Officer (Group Companies)

You'll run weekly and monthly payrolls for a retail head office in Bellville, from clock data to bank file. If you turn up on time and finish what you start, you'll fit in quickly.

This post is Bellville-based, with most of your time spent at a retail head office. Start is planned for the beginning of next month.

• Capture new hires, terminations, increases and deductions before cut-off
• Release the salary bank file for authorisation
• Compile bi-annual EMP501 reconciliations and issue IRP5 certificates
• Run weekly and monthly payrolls and check the variance reports
• Calculate leave pay, notice pay and final pay under the BCEA
• Submit Compensation Fund returns of earnings
• Answer staff payslip queries clearly and in private

• Matric plus a payroll certificate or diploma
• Reliable with deadlines that cannot move
• Comfortable with Excel reconciliations
• Experience on Sage 300 People, VIP, PaySpace or SimplePay
• You keep salary information private under POPIA

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

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

• 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.