Payroll Specialist at Hollywoodbets

Responsibilities

• We have amazing opportunities for a Payroll Specialist to be based in Umhlanga. Do you think you have what it takes to be our newest Purple Star?
• The position will be responsible for the administration of the company’s payroll systems whilst maintaining strict confidentiality standards. Responsible for timely and accurate delivery of payroll and related client service, including statutory compliance, recordkeeping and reporting.

You bring:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a payroll related position.
• A minimum of 3 years in a supervisory/assistant manager role. 
• Payroll and payroll tax related training experience.

A bonus to have:

• Degree/Diploma in a related field. 

What You’ll Do For The Brand:

The role may include but is not limited to:

• Point of contact and support – providing prompt, courteous and efficient customer service to managers and team members who have questions regarding payroll in all respects.
• Providing continuous support and query resolution for the payroll team as required.
• Processing senior management payroll:
• Responsible for all activities related to payroll processing. 
• Process payroll and maintain payroll information accurately as required, ensuring all transactions are authorized, recorded and documented. This includes checking of transactions uploaded by the time and attendance officers.
• Ensure that salaries (spreadsheet and required documents) are signed off / authorized by the appropriate manager(s). Ensure that sign off (spreadsheet) balances to the payroll/pay register
• Ensure that salaries are correctly and timeously paid, and that provident fund, statutory and payroll related payments (external providers) are correctly reconciled and paid by the due dates.
• Prepare and maintain related payroll records. 
• Preparing reports, analysis, summaries, journals, statutory submissions and reconciliations timeously as required.
• Oversee the statutory submissions and reconciliations ensuring they are submitted correctly and timeously as required.
• Oversee, check and release salary, external and ad-hoc payments ensuring correct, timeous and properly recorded and approved payments as required.
• Oversee the payroll operations administrators and payroll benefits administrators to ensure accurate and timeous service delivery.
• Work with supervisors to ensure input is complete, correct and compliant.
• Work with supervisors to ensure procedures and controls are adhered to as required.
• Work with supervisors (and payroll project specialist where required) to ensure SARS, UIF, DOL, statutory and external providers recons, submissions and queries and SARS requests are resolved correctly and timeously.
• Analytics, checks, reviews and reporting as required.
• Work closely with the Human Resources department and Finance to research and resolve problems, perform scheduled activities, prepare and maintain accurate records. 
• Stay current with Payroll software systems updates, functionality and new functionalities that are released in the system and communicates these to the department.
• Encourage practice of the companies’ values.
• Performs other and related duties, ad hoc projects, training and general admin as required.

What You’ll Bring To The Team:

• High level of accountability.
• Deadline orientated.
• Exceptional planning and attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Problem solving abilities.
• Customer orientation.
• Excellent time management and reporting skills.
• Strong business acumen.
• Results driven.

Apply Before 12/28/2025

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