Payroll Team Lead (Fixed Term Contract)

JOB PURPOSE
To manage work performed by Payroll Coordinators and Payroll Administrators and ensure correctness of any Payroll, Benefits and Accounts through data integrity and applying relevant controls to ensure effective business controls. To manage and ensure updates and running of the relevant OU payrolls to ensure effective business controls, correctness and compliance to legislation.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:
MANAGING WORK PERFORMED BY PAYROLL COORDINATORS AND DATA ADMINISTRATORS
To ensure completeness of all entries captured by Payroll Team
Ensure correctness of entries and within Policy
AUDITS:
Perform all Audit functions for SA and Affiliates relating to Payroll & Benefits including Internal and External audits, SARS, Labour Department, COIDA, BBBEE
GENERAL ACCOUNTING:
To prevent reconciliation items by timeous and accurate capturing of Payroll information
Ensure accounting reconciliation items are cleared timeously
PAYROLL LEGISLATION
Ensure system is aligned to all legislation including neighboring countries by performing regular UAT/Checks
REPORTING & ANALYSIS
Always ensure availability of correct data by periodically monitoring, analyzing and reporting on Payroll and Benefits activities to address potential issues and recommend appropriate intervention plans
LEGISLATIVE PAYMENTS
Ensure Monthly/Annual reconciliations/payments for neighboring countries are timeously performed including issuing of Tax certificates.
GENERIC ACCOUNTABILITIES
Networking And Relationship Building:
Foster and sustain effective working relationships and rapport with OU personnel and management, GBS personnel and Central team.
Foster and sustain effective working relationships and rapport with the external stakeholders and service providers to keep abreast with latest development to capture new business opportunities.
Leadership And Capability Development:
Drive the development of competent working team that will enhance and sustain staff capabilities in achieving high performance delivery to ensure internalisation of the right leadership and capabilities in executing their jobs.
COBE, POPI and ABC Policies:
Communicate, interpret and champion the execution of the company’s policies and provisions of the Codes of Conduct & Business Ethics (COBE), Protection of Personal Information (POPI) and Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC), and undertake appropriate mitigation and/or intervention programmes to safeguard business operations, high staff discipline and industrial harmony.
Good Governance:
Enforce the implementation of applicable company procedures and guidelines and affect the compliance to statutory and legislative requirements to ensure conformance to the established Manual of Authorities (MoAs) to safeguard the company’s interest, image and reputation.
Enforcement of the Treasury policy.
Mindset, Behaviour and Culture:
Develop and implement distinctive mindset, behavior and culture to achieve high work performance by adoption and implementing value interventions, tools and methodologies to promote and instill a high sense of commitment, ownership, integrity and loyalty that will contribute to operational excellence.
Requirements
JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCES:
HR Diploma/Degree
5 years’ experience in Payroll & Benefits
Experience in SAPFI, Success Factors and ticketing systems e.g ServiceNow or Manage Engine
Payroll Accounting experience
Overtime work may be required
Deadline: 27 October 2026

Work arrangement
No