Junior Payroll Officer

takealot.com, 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 :

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com 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 takealot.com.
• 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_