Job description
, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented **Junior Payroll Officer**to join our team in Cape Town.
We’re a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great!
**The position reports to the Payroll Manager.**
**Your responsibilities will include:**
- **Data Processing**: Capture new hires, banking details, salary changes, and terminations into the payroll systems within agreed SLA deadlines. Processing of Termination documentation as required.
- **Time & Attendance**: Verify employee overtime, and track annual, sick, or family responsibility leave etc
- **Statutory Calculations**: Assist with calculations for statutory deductions and filings like UIF and PAYE.
- **Query Resolution**: Handle routine internal and external payroll questions from employees and managers.
- **Reporting**: Support month-end reconciliations and reporting tasks
- **Employee Documentation:** Ensure that all payroll documentation is filed. Establishing/maintaining employee records; ensuring that employee changes are entered correctly and made on a timely basis.
- Payroll Projects: Contribute to Payroll projects when required
- **Benefits**: Assist with the management and implementation of benefits in relation to payroll.
**Qualifications and Experience:**
- Teritary qualification Businesss Management / Human Resources Diploma or equivalent
- At least 1 – 2 years’ experience in an HR admin role with specific experience in a payroll administration environment
- Experience with time and attendance systems is required
- Experience working on ESS Knowledge of relevant, South African legislation (BCEA, UIF, SDA, PAYE, WCA)
**Minimum Required Competencies:**
- Accounting/Payroll knowledge sufficient to perform journal entries and payroll account reconciliations
- Payroll administration
- Payroll Processes and procedures
- Payroll queries handling
- Reporting
- Strong computer skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong problem solving skills
- Ability to work in an unstructured environment with diverse cultures
- Detail-obsession
- Advanced Excel
**Attributes Required:**
- Proactive
- Assertive
- Integrity
- Delivery orientated
- Can do attitude
- Ability to communicate and manage well at all levels of the organization
- Written and Verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently and work well in a team
- Customer service orientation
- Strong planning and organizing skills, and the ability to work under pressure
- Ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks and meet all deadlines
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise extreme discretion
**The Environment**:
- employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
- We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
- We are short on ego and high on output.
- We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
- We love what we do and what we are creating.
We seek to Employ an **Extra Ordinary Mind** who:
- is forthright but respectful
- is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
- is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
- is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours)
- is **passionate about the potential of e-commerce** and delivering a **world-class customer experience**
- is **entrepreneurial**, **thrives under change** and accepts it is a constant and always **looks for solutions** to do something better and faster
- is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
- is curious and challenge the status quo
- is innovative and enjoys iteration
- is collaborative
- will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for .
- **thinks like an owner** of the business.
- is **SMART, has INTEGRITY** and **is HARDWORKING**
If you meet the above you are an **Extraordinary Mind** so come and join us!
*Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference*
