Payroll Specialist Job at Verge Consult

Payroll Specialist

Dar es Salaam
Verge Consult
Verge Consult offers a wide range of consulting services with the necessary tools and expertise to help grow your business.

Our client is looking for a Payroll Specialist to process and manage the company’s payroll. The role holder will be responsible for development of time sheets to track, record, and calculate appropriate wages of the full time and contract based employees of the business. The role holder being privy to sensitive personal information of the members of the organization and hence requires the incumbent to operate with integrity and respect for personal data.

Responsibilities:

• The incumbent is to ensure the employees continuously receive timely wages and salaries.
• Correctly maintain workman data for accurate calculations of compensation.
• Ability to utilize standard payroll systems i.e. prepare and execute pay orders and deliver to employees pay slips as prescribed by the laws of Tanzania.
• Process taxes and other benefits including statutory pensions, workman’s compensation and any other employment related deductions as per the policies of the company and/or the laws of the country.
• Prepare appropriate reports to upper management and finance department to support approvals to pay employees and drive strategic decisions of the company.

Qualifications:

• BSc/BA in appropriate graduate degree in business, accounting, or any other equivalent /relevant course or advanced diploma.
• Minimum 2+years experience as a payroll specialist or payroll manager
• Solid understanding or payroll fundamentals and accounting principles.
• Very good understanding of the regulations and laws of Tanzania that govern human resources.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications as well as payroll software e.g. Kronos, Payforce, etc.
  Ethical, trustworthy and aware of the secrecy/privacy requirements of the role.
• Analytical, comfortable working with large amounts of data and attention to detail.

Please share your updated CV, most recent references, a cover letter and relevant educational /professional certificates describing your eligibility and relevant qualifications to hr@verge.co.tz