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About this Payroll Team Lead (Fixed Term Contract) role at Vivo Energy

Vivo Energy · Onsite · Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

JOB PURPOSE

To manage work performed by Payroll Coordinators and Payroll Administrators and ensure correctness of any Payroll, Benefits and Accounts through data integrity and applying relevant controls to ensure effective business controls. To manage and ensure updates and running of the relevant OU payrolls to ensure effective business controls, correctness and compliance to legislation.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

MANAGING WORK PERFORMED BY PAYROLL COORDINATORS AND DATA ADMINISTRATORS

  • To ensure completeness of all entries captured by Payroll Team
  • Ensure correctness of entries and within Policy

AUDITS:

  • Perform all Audit functions for SA and Affiliates relating to Payroll & Benefits including Internal and External audits, SARS, Labour Department, COIDA, BBBEE

GENERAL ACCOUNTING:

  • To prevent reconciliation items by timeous and accurate capturing of Payroll information
  • Ensure accounting reconciliation items are cleared timeously

PAYROLL LEGISLATION

  • Ensure system is aligned to all legislation including neighboring countries by performing regular UAT/Checks

REPORTING & ANALYSIS

  • Always ensure availability of correct data by periodically monitoring, analyzing and reporting on Payroll and Benefits activities to address potential issues and recommend appropriate intervention plans

LEGISLATIVE PAYMENTS

  • Ensure Monthly/Annual reconciliations/payments for neighboring countries are timeously performed including issuing of Tax certificates.

GENERIC ACCOUNTABILITIES

Networking And Relationship Building:

  • Foster and sustain effective working relationships and rapport with OU personnel and management, GBS personnel and Central team.
  • Foster and sustain effective working relationships and rapport with the external stakeholders and service providers to keep abreast with latest development to capture new business opportunities.

Leadership And Capability Development:

  • Drive the development of competent working team that will enhance and sustain staff capabilities in achieving high performance delivery to ensure internalisation of the right leadership and capabilities in executing their jobs.

COBE, POPI and ABC Policies:

  • Communicate, interpret and champion the execution of the company’s policies and provisions of the Codes of Conduct & Business Ethics (COBE), Protection of Personal Information (POPI) and Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC), and undertake appropriate mitigation and/or intervention programmes to safeguard business operations, high staff discipline and industrial harmony.

Good Governance:

  • Enforce the implementation of applicable company procedures and guidelines and affect the compliance to statutory and legislative requirements to ensure conformance to the established Manual of Authorities (MoAs) to safeguard the company’s interest, image and reputation.
  • Enforcement of the Treasury policy.

Mindset, Behaviour and Culture:

  • Develop and implement distinctive mindset, behavior and culture to achieve high work performance by adoption and implementing value interventions, tools and methodologies to promote and instill a high sense of commitment, ownership, integrity and loyalty that will contribute to operational excellence.

Requirements

JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCES:

  • HR Diploma/Degree
  • 5 years’ experience in Payroll & Benefits
  • Experience in SAPFI, Success Factors and ticketing systems e.g ServiceNow or Manage Engine
  • Payroll Accounting experience
  • Overtime work may be required

Deadline: 27 October 2026

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About Vivo Energy

We are Vivo Energy, the company that operates and markets its products in countries across North, West, East, Southern Africa and in the Ocean Islands.

We have a network of over 3,900 service stations in 28 markets operating under the Engen and Shell brands and we export lubricants to a number of other African countries. We employ around 6,000 people.

Our retail offering includes fuels, lubricants, card services, convenience stores, restaurants, and other non-fuel services. We provide fuels, lubricants, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and chemicals to business customers across a range of sectors.

Our vision is to be Africa's leading and most respected energy business in Africa.

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