Key roles and responsibilities:

• Day-to-day payroll administration on managed service (expat payroll)
• Meeting all day-to-day statutory and business compliance requirements
• Monitoring of payroll KPI’s through buddy, Snow and SharePoint
• Conduct regular audit on data integrity to align with processes and policies
• Investigate and correct any errors in the case of system or process issues
• Preparing monthly payrolls according to schedule, preparing documentation to support monthly approval by Payroll Lead/Payroll controller, accurately and on time
• Management of payroll reporting and weekly EFT payments
• Ensuring that segregation of duties and data protection standards are met
• Providing training to payroll administrators to ensure understanding and continuous capability building
• Working with internal and external audit teams to ensure that systems and processes meet best practice to mitigate risk
• Supporting process and systems relating to proper filling of payroll documentations including the payroll mailbox
• Providing monthly details reports pertaining to payroll KPI’s for tracking, measurements, and analysis
• Participating in payroll related projects
• Identify, analyze, and resolve payroll queries as they are escalated through BP’s, managers, and employees
• Serve as a backup to payroll administrators as a when needed
• Ad-hoc payroll related duties

Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting (Finance background is advantageous)
• 5+ years of experience in payroll processing in Africa on a zone scale. Preferably experience on a multi country payroll environment.
• Sound knowledge on Personal Income Tax, Wage Tax and Social Security regulations in the different countries of Africa Zone.
• Sound knowledge of payroll accounting, payroll compliances and audits.
• Fulltime bachelor’s degree (accounting/finance background is a plus)
• Thrives in a global environment, working flexibly where required.
• Must be fluent in English.
• Proficiency in using MS Office tools (MS Outlook, Teams, Excel etc.).
• Experience in HR systems preferably SAP and Payspace
• Extensive knowledge on expat payroll