Payroll Officer

About Hollywoodbets and Role Overview

Joining Hollywoodbets' Purple Team means becoming part of a renowned South African brand that has expanded across Africa and the UK from its Durban origins. This dynamic and fast-growing company offers rewarding opportunities for career advancement in a vibrant environment. We invite passionate candidates to apply for the position of Payroll Officer located in Umhlanga, Durban.

Key Responsibilities

• Accurately process payroll transactions, ensuring all data is authorized, recorded, and documented, including verification of inputs from time and attendance officers.
• Validate financial details on employees' payslips during new engagements, such as allowances, deductions, company contributions, and fringe benefits.
• Manage global transfers by updating payroll and tax profiles correctly and ensuring movements reflect salary changes, promotions, or additional allowances.
• Handle terminations by including final payouts and recovering outstanding deductions in the termination payroll run.
• Execute custom payroll system forms for engagements, changes, and terminations to guarantee thorough checks.
• Track integration errors, quality issues, or missed deadlines using the Quality Alert Tracker on MS Teams and ensure timely resolution.
• Load all deductions like Acknowledgement of Debt and loans promptly, and process ad hoc payments such as claims or out-of-cycle payments swiftly.
• Oversee processing and approval of employee change requests and claims in payroll.
• Monitor the Payroll Shared Mailbox to address integration notifications, payslip queries, and other payroll-related requests.
• Confirm payroll completeness by ensuring all employees and relevant changes or leaves are registered appropriately with requisite validations.
• Prepare consolidated salary documentation and review it before forwarding for managerial approval.
• Generate final monthly payroll packages and reports within set deadlines.
• Obtain necessary managerial authorization for salary spreadsheets and validate payroll balances across all pay runs.
• Ensure timely payment of salaries, provident fund contributions, statutory payments, and other payroll-related disbursements.
• Maintain payroll records, prepare reports, analyses, summaries, journal entries, statutory submissions, and reconciliations, including provident fund reconciliations.
• Offer accounting assistance to the Finance Team.
• Address and resolve all internal customer payroll inquiries within 24 hours, utilizing trained customer service approaches.
• Adhere strictly to daily, weekly, and monthly payroll deadlines.
• Stay informed about changes within the Payroll department and uphold the Hollywood Group's values and confidentiality standards.
• Perform general administrative duties and additional ad hoc tasks as assigned.

Skills and Attributes Required

• Minimum five years’ experience in a payroll-related role.
• Excellent communication abilities.
• Strong time management skills.

Additional Information

Applicants meeting the minimum requirements will be considered. Responses will be communicated within 30 days; otherwise, applications may be assumed unsuccessful.