- Location
- HQ Sandton, South Africa
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Finance
- Seniority
- Lead
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Workday
Description
Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
The key purpose of this role is The Payroll Lead is accountable for the accurate, timely, and compliant delivery of payroll services across the Africa Zone, operating within a highly complex, multi-country payroll environment. The role is responsible for leading end-to-end payroll operations across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring compliance with diverse legislative, tax, labour, benefits, and corporate governance requirements.
Role Complexity: Operates across multiple African jurisdictions, legal entities, currencies, tax regimes and employee populations, including expatriates and internationally mobile employees.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
1.Payroll Management:
- Oversee end-to-end payroll processing for the Africa Zone
- Ensuring accuracy, timeliness of payments
- Compliance with all policies, legislation, and SLA requirements.
- Expat Payroll processing
2.Compliance & Governance:
- Ensure adherence to statutory reporting and filing requirements
- Maintain compliance with corporate governance, internal policies and legislation.
3.Taxation & Year-End Processes:
- Manage tax-related payroll activities (including year-end tax reconciliations and filings for the Africa Zone.)
4.General Ledger & Finance:
- Support general ledger reconciliations related to payroll
- Ensure timely and accurate posting of payroll transactions
- Review and ensure accuracy of recharge invoices to countries within the Africa Zone.
5. Payroll Calendar & Reporting:
- Prepare the payroll calendar for approval and sign off on monthly payroll packs, bonuses, and month-end reports.
- Generate monthly payroll statistics
- Analyze data to inform improvements.
6. Audit & Regulatory Liaison:
- Provide support during internal and external payroll audits
- Liaise with regulatory bodies such as SARS and other relevant stakeholders.
7. Benefits Management:
- Oversee the payroll-related benefits processes
- ensuring seamless integration and accuracy.
8. Query Resolution:
- Investigate and resolve payroll queries, discrepancies, and escalations efficiently
- Evaluation of root causes and implementing solutions.
9. Process Improvement & Implementation:
- Drive automation, standardisation, optimisation and payroll transformation initiatives.
- Develop, maintain, and update SOPs and implement payroll processes and standards to ensure a professional payroll service.
10. System & Compliance Management:
- Manage system changes and statutory compliance updates to maintain alignment with legal and corporate requirements.
11.People Management and Development:
- Lead and manage a team of professionals, fostering a high-performance culture.
- Provide mentorship and development opportunities to team members, ensuring their growth and career advancement.
- Conduct regular performance reviews, providing constructive feedback and recognizing achievements.
- Promote and uphold the company culture, ensuring alignment with our core values and mission.
12.Key Competencies and Experience:
- Promote a service-oriented approach to enhance the employee experience.
- Address stakeholder feedback via NPS and needs effectively.
- Proven experience in payroll management, preferably within a multi-country or Africa Zone context.
- Strong knowledge of payroll legislation, tax regulations, and benefits administration in Africa.
- Experience managing payroll teams and working cross-functionally with finance, HR, and regulatory bodies.
- Excellent organizational, leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency with payroll systems, financial software, and general ledger processes.
- Ability to operate in a highly complex, multi-country payroll environment
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- Stakeholder management, attention to detail, time management, strong organizational and project management, collaboration, problem-solving and presentation skills. Excellent interpersonal, communication and skills, empathy and conflict resolution. People management experience - understanding of people processes like recruitment, IR and payroll beneficial. Passion for talent and early career development. Ownership
Minimum Requirements:
- University Degree (Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance or similar)
- Min 5+ years Payroll Leadership experience
- SAP Payroll experience (essential)
- Payspace experience (essential)
- Advanced English
- Intermediate Excel
Additional Information:
- Band VI
AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in-line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short-listing.
