Payroll Supervisors at Sahara Group Limited

Sahara Group nutures businesses in the energy sector. These companies operate essentially within the energy industry and its associated sub-sectors.

The Group consists of individuals, who are determined to make a positive impact on the business environment.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Payroll Supervisor 

Location: Nigeria

Responsibilities
Payroll Administration:

• Ensure that all payroll related inputs required for the monthly payroll process are received before 15th of the month.
• Review all payroll related inputs into the payroll system and check for accuracy
• To reconcile current month payroll with previous month and explain the variances
• Run the payroll software
• Review cost center changes, all deductions and check for accuracy of Payroll
• Print out schedules of statutory deductions i.e. PAYE, NSITF, and Pension etc.
• Print out all payroll schedules i.e. Payroll Analysis, Bank Mandate & Payment Summary on GAPS
• To ensure high confidentiality on employees’ pay, package and position

Payroll Reconciliation:

• Monthly upload of staff salary cost & Transfer to Journal on Oracle payroll
• Provide adhoc reports on staff salary costs to the relevant units within finance
• Compute all end of services entitlements or indebtedness
• Ensure resigned staff are not included in payroll
• Advise Finance Mangers of monthly and Quarterly Reimbursable net position
• Coordinate the administration of Pension, Taxes, NSITF, ITF, and Group Life Insurance.
• Assist in the preparation of HR annual budget
• Review salaries journal vouchers raised manually to determine their accuracy and to ensure they impact the correct general ledger accounts.
• Monitors the amortization and accruals of all reimbursable and salaries related payments.

Statutory Compliance:

• Coordinate the processing, remittance and reconciliation of all payroll related statutory liabilities (PAYE, NSITF, NHF, Group Life) to ensure compliance with all payroll related tax laws and regulations.
• Administration of statutory audit (concerning PAYE, NSITF, NHF) process and respond promptly to payroll related queries raised by the tax authorities and other regulatory bodies.
• Filing of tax returns in compliance with the deadline of the statutory authorities.
• Prepare PAYE audit support data for external auditor’s use.
• Implement all new Payroll related Law and Amendment within Nigeria and other African countries where

Requirements
Minimum Qualification/ Experience:

• A University Degree (or its equivalent) in Accounting or related fields
• Minimum of 3- 5 years cognate working experience (Post NYSC) within the Reward & Remuneration department of a corporate organization, with at least 3 years in a similar role.
• Professional certification such as ICAN, ACCA is an added advantage

Knowledge/Skills:

• Good knowledge and understanding of issues affecting the employee remuneration such as PAYE guidelines, Pension, etc is necessary.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Apt for figures
• Must be good with reconciliations.
• Must be proficient in the use of Oracle payroll software package
• Must be good with Microsoft office suite (MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Word, MS PPT etc)

Personality Traits:

• Must be a quick self-starter
• A good communicator
• Must be flexible and ready to work long hours
• Must be hard working
• Must be a quick thinker
• Must have be assertive
• Must be Resilient
• Must have good interpersonal skills
• Must possess analytical skills

Working Relationships

• Company/Function Head
• Group Legal
• Finance
• Corporate Affairs
• Agencies/Contractors, External Auditors
• All staff

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications to: recruiter@sahara-group.com