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Payroll and Talent Reporting Analyst (Prescient Centralised Services)

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Head of Centralised Services

Location

Steenberg, Cape Town

Business Unit

Prescient Centralised Services
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The Payroll and Talent Reporting Analyst plays a key role in overseeing all aspects of the payroll process and ensuring accurate employee reporting. In this role you will need to have a comprehensive understanding of payroll systems and processes as well as accounting principles to assist in enhancing current payroll and HR / Talent reporting processes. This is an exciting newly created position offering excellent challenge and growth. 

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Payroll analysis and oversight

  • Play a pivotal role in overseeing all aspects of the payroll process, ensuring accurate and timely payment of employee salaries, and compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
  • Perform a critical review function
  • Required a comprehensive understanding of payroll systems and processes as well as accounting principles to assist in enhancing current payroll and HR / Talent reporting processes
  • Collaborate with the Payroll Administrator, Talent, and Finance teams to maintain accurate employee data, ensuring all payroll related processes and records are updated and reconciled on monthly basis
  • Monthly reconciliation between payroll records and finance accounting records
  • Produce a monthly analysis of payroll movements which feeds into the management accounts
  • Oversight of payroll records, reports, and documentation for auditing and legal purposes. Act as the key point of contact for payroll audit.
  • Responsible for workmen’s compensation regulatory requirements
  • Partnering with the Head of Centralised Services to ensure robust internal controls related to payroll and reporting.
  • Stay up to date with changes in payroll laws and regulations, assessing their impact on the company's payroll practices and implementing necessary adjustments to ensure compliance.

HR/Talent Reporting

  • Produce accurate and high quality monthly, quarterly and ad-hoc reports on various employee data, which includes but not limited to employee lists, headcount / staff movements, staff demographics, hierarchy levels critical for regulatory and Board reporting
  • You will have the opportunity to enhance reporting tools and assist the Head of Centralised Services and Head of Talent in building a digitized employee reporting function, specifically developing people dashboards and reporting. This will involve working with identified service providers  to enhance the use of the current HRIS and Payroll system.
  • Development of a robust skills (study / membership) process to ensure accurate reporting and reconciliation.
  • Assist the Talent team with special projects and work as may be assigned

Other

  • With support from the Head of Centralised Services manage all relevant vendor relationships ie: Medical Aid, Group risk Benefits etc to ensure efficient service delivery
  • Support the Head of Centralised Services as required with the annual salary review preparation process and other ad-hoc projects
  • Perform the function of Section 24 Employment Equity Manager

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

  • Four years relevant experience in a related role where you have worked with Payroll and HRIS systems and employee reporting. Exposure to SAGE People, Acumatica / related system is a distinct advantage.
  • Comprehensive understanding of payroll systems and processes as well as accounting principles required.
  • Systems orientated with a keen interest in automation and digitization of the Payroll and HR Reporting environment

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • CA (SA) / CIMA preferred. An Accounting post graduate degree is a minimum requirement 

KEY COMPETENCIES

  • High levels of integrity and discretion
  • Trustworthy and reliable 
  • Self-driven and hard working
  • Positive, proactive team player
  • Innovative and curious
  • Excellent analytical skills
  • High levels of attention to detail and accuracy

WHY THIS ROLE?

This is an exciting newly created position offering excellent exposure and growth. Working closely with the Head of Centralised Services you will apply your knowledge of payroll process and employee reporting and your interest in automation and digitisation to improve reporting and access to essential payroll and people data. 

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