Payroll and Talent Reporting Analyst (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 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 QUALIFICATIONS

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