Job Purpose
Responsible for maintaining the people’s cost budget to ensure operations are within budget. Manage the payroll function, ensuring accurate & timely payment of employees’ salaries along with compliance to statutory requirements. Responsibilities include calculating employees’ compensation, updating our internal payroll databases and ensuring timely payments
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Collecting daily, weekly, and monthly employee time sheets and calculating employee work hours.
- Manage the payroll processing end to end
- Prepare monthly people cost budget/actual variance analysis and reporting and communication to various functions
- Ensure accurate preparation and submission of monthly statutory payment remittances and proper filing of all statutory returns and receipts
- Maintain compliance requirements as per regulatory and company guidelines
- Accurate reconciliation & authorization of payroll reports and schedules
- Ensure timely payment of Salaries and remittance of Statutory and other authorized deductions
- Ensuring all payroll transactions are processed efficiently. Preparing payroll reports.
- Responding to employee questions about compensation, taxes, benefits, and deductions.
- Entering new employee data into the company database.
- Any other responsibilities as assigned by the management
Minimum Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in Accounting and/or Finance from a reputable institution.
- ACCA/ CPA qualification Part Two
- At least 1 years’ experience in Payroll administration.
- Advanced excel and knowledge in SAGE Accounting system will be an added advantage
- Must have experience working with an ERP as well as a payroll system
- Knowledge of Statutory payroll deductions.
Competencies and Attributes
- Excellent analytical, communication and reporting skills
- Innovative and creative thinker in problem solving
- Efficient and results oriented
- Self-motivated person able to work under minimum supervision
- Good eye for detail
- Excellent analytical, communication and reporting skills
- At least 1years’ experience in Payroll administration.
- Innovative and creative thinker in problem solving
- Efficient and results oriented
- Self-motivated person able to work under minimum supervision
- Integrity
- Relationships and working contacts
Environment
- This is an office-based role with occasional field visits
