Reward Officer at Telkom Kenya

Reporting to:        HR Operations and Reward Partner

Band:                      3

Department:         Human Resources 

Role Purpose

We are seeking to hire a reward officer. You will perform a range of duties including maintaining the people 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.

Working For Us, We Expect You To:

• Collating compensation information to facilitate participation in the annual salary surveys
• Facilitate recognition programs on annual and quarterly basis
• Manage the Telkom 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
• Coordinate with the HRBPs to ensure employees’ queries are responded to within stipulated timeframes
• Partner with the Talent team to ensure New Hires and Exits are updated accordingly into the system 
• Ensure timely communication to employees where applicable.

Academic background & Professional Knowledge

• Bachelor’s Degree in HR or related field.
• At least 3-5 years’ experience in HR, 2 of which should have been in reward.
• Professional qualifications in HR
• Must be an active member of IHRM
• Must have experience working with an ERP as well as a payroll systems
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications including Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Here Are The Skills We Are Looking For:

• Proactive and dynamic.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Efficient and results oriented
• Self-motivated person able to work under minimum supervision
• Excellent Organization, analytical and communication skills
• Ability to network both internally and externally
• Good eye for detail
• Good negotiation and facilitation skills.
• Ability to multi-task and undertake research initiatives.