Payroll and Talent Reporting Specialist (Prescient Centralised Services)

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 SAGE 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 (Sage 300 People). 
• 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 i.e.: 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. 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• An Accounting degree is a required.