HR Compliance and Payroll Manager

• Systems thinker — designs scalable processes, not one-off solutions
• Data-driven — comfortable with numbers, analytics, and reporting
• Compliance-focused — thrives on accuracy, organisation, SLAs, and audit readiness
• Pragmatic risk manager — balances labour compliance with operational reality
• Process designer — designs and builds repeatable systems, not ad hoc fixes
• Speed at scale — resolves IR and HR queries within defined SLAs

1. →Design and maintain scalable HR systems and processes for onboarding, offboarding, contracting, and records management across 1,100+ staff within resource constrained environment.
2. →Own end-to-end payroll review on a monthly basis, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and clean audit outcomes across employee and facilitator categories. This includes all related statutory returns and submissions.
3. →Assume full ownership of industrial relations: oversee all disciplinary processes, grievances, and CCMA matters with speed, consistency, and sound legal grounding.
4. →Develop and enforce clear IR case management protocols — ensuring no case sits unresolved beyond agreed SLAs, and that managers are equipped to handle first-line issues independently.
5. →Build and maintain HR dashboards and reporting: headcount, leave liability, IR pipeline, contract status, and compliance metrics — available on demand to leadership.
6. →Manage full labour law compliance with BCEA, LRA, COIDA, EEA, and POPIA requirements — including statutory reporting, equity planning, and workplace health and safety oversight.
7. →Create and maintain policy documentation that is clear, current, and operationally implementable — work with the talent team to train managers to apply it consistently.
8. →Manage the salary budget with the Chief of Staff: tracking against budget, flagging variances, and reporting on workforce cost projections.

• Exceptional attention to detail, with strong analytical and numeric ability
• A data-driven approach to decision-making
• A proven ability to develop processes and deploy systems at scale
• Composure under pressure and the ability to think on your feet
• Critical, outcomes- and solution-based thinking
• Energy and initiative — a self-starter who works independently
• A pragmatic approach to compliance — understanding the gap between policy and the field
• A willingness to learn, adapt, and continuously improve systems
• An understanding that taking full accountability and ownership delivers real outcomes

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Law, Business, Engineering, or a related analytical discipline.
• Minimum 5 years' experience managing HR, IR, and/or payroll operations across large workforce— or equivalent experience in operations/general management with significant HR responsibility.
• Demonstrable track record of designing and implementing HR or operational processes at scale (500+ employees strongly preferred).
• Hands-on experience managing CCMA cases, disciplinary hearings, and navigating South African labour law.
• Strong payroll systems experience; proficiency in spreadsheets, pivot tables, formulas, and HR reporting tools.
• Experience in project/process management.

Key compliance areas: BCEA · LRA · COIDA · EEA · POPIA · CCMA