Senior Payroll Officer (Group Companies)

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

Home base is a retail head office on the Sasolburg side of Free State.

• Release the salary bank file for authorisation
• Run weekly and monthly payrolls and check the variance reports
• Capture new hires, terminations, increases and deductions before cut-off
• Submit Compensation Fund returns of earnings
• Submit monthly EMP201 returns and pay PAYE, UIF and SDL on eFiling

• Reliable with deadlines that cannot move
• You keep salary information private under POPIA
• Sound knowledge of PAYE, UIF, SDL and the BCEA
• Experience on Sage 300 People, VIP, PaySpace or SimplePay
• Comfortable with Excel reconciliations
• Matric plus a payroll certificate or diploma

• Knowledge of employment equity and WSP reporting
• Bargaining council wage experience, such as MIBCO or the security sector
• Experience with medical aid and pension fund reconciliations

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

• 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.