# Payroll Lead at takealot.com Payroll Lead at takealot.com in Cape Town. Posted February 5, 2026. - Company: takealot.com - Location: Cape Town - Experience: 7+ years - Posted: 2026-02-05 - Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom/jobs/7588118 - Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/payroll-lead-takealotcom-1nd58h ## Description takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly adaptable  **Payroll Lead **to join our People & Transformation team in Cape Town We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great. This position reports to the** Head of People CapabilitiesYour responsibilities will include:Payroll Management:** - Manage an end-to-end payroll service. - Ensure accurate calculation of salaries, overtime, bonuses, commissions, deductions and any other payroll related payment.  - Provide an accurate, timely and compliant company payroll services - Develop and direct the preparation of payroll and related reports - Manage payroll schedules and ensure timely payment to all employees - Provide specialised payroll and deduction information and assistance as required - Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and requirements. - Manage the development and implementation of all Payroll related policies and procedures.  - Ensure accurate payroll reporting.  - Assist the Group CFO and CFOs of BU’s by reporting on variances on payroll input and data. - Respond to payroll related questions or needs regarding compliance or regulations utilising payroll resources available - Ensure the resolution of all payroll related issues utilizing payroll policies and procedures.  - Participate in the annual increase process in collaboration with the Analytics team. - Implement the annual salary increases. - Establish/maintain employee records that relate to payroll and ensure that they are accurately filed and available to the HR team.  - Maintaining and storing of payroll data, providing the system that safeguard the payroll data and documentation.  **Payroll System Management:** - Manages the payroll system and reviews enhancements/changes for development and implementation in the business. - Review and amend payroll processes, policies and procedures as required within a changing environment. **Benefits Management:** - Manage the administration of all Employee benefits for the Group. - Ensure the implementation of all benefits policies and procedures - Manage the relationship with benefits service providers as required. - Ensure that all benefits applications on payroll comply with legal requirements. -   **Compliance and Reporting:** - Manage the annual internal and external payroll and related audits.  - Assist in providing documentation and reports to internal and external sources during the annual audit process. - Ensure accuracy of legislative reporting of all employees in all required reports. - Create ad hoc reports for HR, Finance and Exco within designated HRIS/Payroll system as and when required - Responsible for all legislative reporting involving payroll and benefits related matters.  - Resolve complex employee requests and perform internal control responsibilities. - Upon request, assist in gathering payroll data for inclusion in financial statements.  - Researching and preparing special reports for management. - Manage the COIDA relationship with the selected service provider and administer the audit for the Group. - Report on payroll metrics, provide insights and make corrective recommendations.  **Leadership:** - Manage and lead the team of payroll officers  - Train and mentor, the Payroll Officers and suggest training intervention to upskill and develop them to keep relevant at all times. - Train HR team members in specific areas of payroll, benefits and reporting. **Qualification & Experience:** - Degree or Advanced Diploma in an HR/Financial-related field. - A minimum of 7-10 years payroll experience that include benefits administration.  - Knowledge of Payspace or other payroll systems. - 3-4 years’ experience leading a payroll/finance team. - Advanced Excel (V-lookups, pivot tables and graphs) /Google suite  - Finance experience will be an added advantage. - Reporting experience. - Benefits management and administration. **Attributes Required**: - Proactive and Assertiveness. - Integrity. - Delivery and detail orientated - strong orientation towards customer satisfaction. - Can do attitude. - Ability to communicate and manage well at all levels of the organization. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills. - Strong planning and organising skills. **Ability to:** - Work independently - Work well in and with a team - Work under pressure - Handle and prioritize multiple tasks and meet all deadlines - maintain confidentiality and exercise extreme discretion - Strong Analytical skills, able to use data, draw insights and make recommendations and where applicable take decisions.  - Entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster. - Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input. - Collaborative. **The Environment**:  - takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer- centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e- commerce company in Africa.  - We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.  - We are short on ego and high on output.  - We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.  - We love what we do and what we are creating. - We seek to employ an **Extra Ordinary Mind **who is Smart, has Integrity, and is Hardworking.  If you meet the above you are an **Extraordinary Mind **so come and join us!  *Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply*.