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
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