Manager Payroll and Controls

The key responsibilities for this role include but not limited to the following:

• Monthly preparation of salaries and wages;
• Prepares master payroll, bank list, and pay statements for approvals;
• Transmits salaries to banks electronic transfer system after executive approvals;
• Ensures payment to employees of wages and salaries in accordance with company deadlines;
• Prepares general ledger journal vouchers for payroll costs;
• Checks the correctness of payroll journal vouchers for posting into the general ledger;
• Submits journal vouchers for posting in accordance with company deadlines
• Prepares statutory and third party payments;
• Ensures that all statutory payroll obligations and third party payments are remitted to the relevant authorities in time to avoid penalties;
• Reconciles of allocated payroll accounts;
• Keeps custody of all payrolls and salary particulars received from Administration and human resources;
• Monitors payroll master file for any retirements and expiry of contracts for purposes of advice to Human Resource department;
• Checks correctness of payments of terminal benefits to all outgoing employees;
• Advises on issues/ procedures that may improve the efficiency of the payroll section;
• Checks all staff payments;
• Prepares of payroll input for budget and forecast;
• Assesses employees eligibility to staff loans & advances by accurately calculating employees commitments against the would be take home pay.

Candidate Requirements

• Grade 12 certificate with 5 credit or better of which English and Mathematics are a must;
• Tertiary accounting qualification ZICA/AAT/CIMA/ACCA;
• Minimum of three (3) years financial accounting experience;
• Payroll System and Accounting training.

Women are strongly encouraged to apply

Applications should be emailed to jobs.zm@mtn.com. Please indicate the job title in the subject of your e-mail and use your full name and the job title you are applying for as the filename of your application. Application should consist of your letter and CV only, in a single document. Hand delivered applications will not be accepted and closing date for accepting applications is 7th April 2021.

Note: that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.