Job brief
If you’ve got payroll experience, we’d like to talk to you. We are in search of a Payroll Officer to track, manage payroll data and execute payments to all employees on time and accurately.
Responsibilities
- Ensure employee payment statements are being distributed, and signed receipts are being collected.
- Paying employees' wages or setting up bank payments.
- Compiling and reporting on earnings summary, taxes, deductions, leave, disability, and non-taxable wages.
- Resolving payroll inconsistencies.
- Payroll operations are kept running by adhering to policies and procedures.
- As needed, create ad hoc financial and operational reporting.
- Collect employees’ timesheets.
- Calculate work hours of staff.
- Ensure that taxes of employees are deducted by the company in compliance with the law.
- Calculate employee deductions and benefits.
- Use payroll software to prepare employee paychecks.
- Distribute paychecks.
- Answer any questions from staff regarding payment and taxation.
- Produce payroll reports and payment statements.
- Enter new employee information into the database.
- Adding new employees' information to the company's databases.
- Ensure that tax withholdings and wages are compliant with the law.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s in Accounting, HR, or similar field
- 2+ years of payroll experience
- Previous experience as a Payroll Clerk, Payroll Officer, or a similar role is required.
- Experience with accounting software and MS Office, particularly MS Excel, is required.
- The ability to work with confidential information is required.
- Solid understanding of labor laws and employment regulations
- Good with mathematics
- Experience with accounting software
- Good communication skills