Über diese Advanced Payroll Operations Consultant, Global Business Services (GBS) Stelle bei Kimberly-Clark
Job Description
Job title: Advanced Payroll Operations Consultant, GBS
Location: No K-C Work Site - South Africa (Remote)
Closing date: 16th November 2026, end of day
You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.
In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.
As part of Global Business Services (GBS), reporting to the Payroll Operations Team Leader, Eastern Europe, this role is responsible for delivering payroll and employer compliance services. The position supports the end-to-end payroll cycle through outsourced providers while ensuring compliance with local payroll, tax, and employment legislation.
In this role, you will:
- Manage monthly payroll processing and validation activities with outsourced payroll providers.
- Ensure accurate and timely salary payments and statutory submissions.
- Monitor legislative changes and implement compliance requirements.
- Support annual payroll activities, audits, reporting, and regulatory filings.
- Maintain payroll policies, procedures, and internal controls.
- Manage payroll accounting activities, reconciliations, and payroll-related reporting.
- Administer benefits, pensions, LTIs and absence-related payroll processes.
- Act as the main point of contact for payroll queries and vendor escalations.
- Drive payroll process improvements and support payroll system changes.
About Us
Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.
At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.
Led by Purpose. Driven by You.
About You
You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.
In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.
To succeed in this role, you will need the following:
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Strong payroll experience, preferably in an independent or small-team environment.
- Minimum 3 years of payroll accounting and payroll operations experience.
- Knowledge of payroll legislation, taxation, and employer compliance requirements.
- Experience with annual payroll activities, audits, and statutory reporting.
- SAP Payroll experience preferred.
- Experience supporting manufacturing payrolls
- Understanding of payroll accounting and general ledger processes.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively within a dynamic and changing environment, adapting at short notice where needed
- Fluent English, written and spoken.
Total Benefits
Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.
South Africa:
As part of your Total Rewards package, you will be entitled to a comprehensive set of benefits. Some of these are listed below:
- Reward and recognition – to attract and retain the best talent we offer competitive pay. We reward excellence and high performance through annual performance related increases and employee recognition awards.
- Great support for good health – we value good health, and to support you, you will have various options for medical insurance with a 50% employer contribution and Gap cover.
- Planning for the future – Being a member of the Provident fund will provide you with savings to provide an income after retirement.
- Protection for you and your family in case of illness or injury – for peace of mind you will have Life cover, disability insurance and Funeral benefit.
- Learning and growth – our employees value the opportunities for professional and personal growth that we offer. A wide range of training is available with Study bursaries for external courses and an opportunity to apply for School fee bursaries for your children
- Employee Wellbeing – our Thrive program covers Physical, Emotional, Mental and Financial wellbeing to help you be at your best, and our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers professional resources and tools to support you and your family.
- Time off – to help you manage your work life balance and cater for different stages of life, we offer attractive annual leave, and policies to cover maternity, paternity, adoption, and parental leave.
- Other – you will be able to enjoy discounted company products. Subsidized canteen meals and uniforms are provided at our mill locations.
To Be Considered
Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.
In the meantime, please check out the careers website.
And finally, the fine print….
For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.
Employment is subject to relevant background checks carried out in South Africa.
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