Payroll Officer At Stratostaff

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