Payroll Officer at BURN

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensuring all payroll transactions are processed efficiently.
• Collecting, calculating, and entering data in order to maintain and update payroll information.
• Collecting daily and weekly or monthly timesheets.
• Preparing employees’ compensation by the end of each month using a payroll software
• Distribution of pay slips to the staff
• Ensuring that wages and tax withholding comply with the regulations.
• Entering new employees’ data into the system.
• Reporting on payroll expenses, compensation, benefits, insurance deductions and taxes
• Resolving payroll discrepancies.

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in human resource Management.
• Proven work experience as a HR payroll officer, payroll clerk in the manufacturing sector.
• Hands-on experience with HR systems.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Exceptional mathematical skills with a keen eye for detail - the ability to spot numerical errors.
• Ability to handle confidential information.
• Sound knowledge of labor laws as well as employment regulations in East African countries.
• Sound knowledge of payroll taxes
• Experience with HRIS/payroll software (e.g., NAV)
• Exceptional time-management and organizational skills
• An analytical mind with a problem-solving attitude