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:

• Processing of appointment documents within agreed SLA time requirements
• Assisting with coordination of HR information/Communication/training sessions as required
• Liaising with benefits service providers as required
• Loading of employee profiles onto the Payroll System
• Filing of all HR – related documentation
• Establishing/maintaining employee records; ensuring that employee changes are entered correctly and made on a timely basis
• Processing of Termination documentation as required
• Processing of soft benefits offered by the company
• Assisting with HR administration and projects as required

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)
• Accounting knowledge sufficient to perform journal entries and payroll account reconciliations
• Payroll administration
• Processes and procedures
• Payroll queries
• Reports
• Strong computer skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong problem solving skills
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment with diverse cultures
• Detail-obsession
• MS Office

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_