What will you be doing:
Employee Benefits & Payroll:
- Research and customise global employee benefits, fostering consistency across all locations by collaborating with local providers.
- Manage end-to-end payroll processing, encompassing onboarding, benefit adjustments, and terminations on a global scale.
- Review, plan, manage, and implement the end-to-end annual review process within our HRIS and Payroll systems, taking into account employee performance, market trends, and budget constraints.
- Process all bonuses, salary increases, and benefit adjustments during annual reviews, coordinating with service providers as necessary.
- Guide salary offers during recruitment and negotiate compensation packages for new hires, promotions, internal transfers, and other changes.
- Communicate compensation and benefits information transparently to employees.
- Provide education on available benefits and changes in legislation and remuneration policies.
Legal Compliance and Policy Updates:
- Stay updated on labour laws and compliance standards, ensuring that VALR consistently meets legal requirements.
- Regularly review and update internal policies to align with the latest legal standards in each operating jurisdiction.
Data Analysis and Reporting:
- Ensure compliance with payroll regulations and oversee submissions of relevant reports such as the Annual Employment Equity Report and Quarterly Stats SA reports.
- Handle payroll and tax-related annual filings and submissions across all countries of operation.
- Create, generate, and analyse comprehensive reports to monitor and manage Payroll, Benefits, Leave, and the Annual Review process.
- Utilise data-driven insights to make informed decisions and enhance the overall performance of compensation and benefits strategies and processes.
HRIS & Payroll Management:
- Demonstrate an extremely strong understanding of systems and processes, implementing, amending/adjusting, and maintaining HRIS and Payroll systems.
- Document all processes to establish clear guidelines and enhance the efficiency of global benefits and payroll operations.
Finance:
- Verify payroll test runs and ensure that any discrepancies are resolved, balancing the payroll to the general ledger.
- Calculate and post to the ledger the provision for leave and bonuses.
- Ensure timeous payments of third-party payments, such as medical aid and other benefit providers, including timeous reconciliations.
- Ensure timeous payments, tracking, and reporting of employee claims and leave.
- Manage and attend to all payroll queries.
