SA Payroll Supervisor
Betway Africa is looking for an SA Payroll Supervisor to lead the day-to-day delivery and first-level review of payroll across the Group’s South African entities. The role focuses on enhancing accurate, timely, and compliant payroll services, covering compensation, benefits, statutory deductions, and reporting.
The successful candidate will help the company excel at operational efficiency and maintain employee trust. This position involves managing payroll activities, overseeing reconciliations, and ensuring audit-ready records are maintained in accordance with company requirements and applicable legislation.
- Coordinate the end-to-end monthly payroll timetable, allocate work and ensure all activities are completed accurately and by agreed deadlines.
- Validate payroll inputs and authorised employee changes against Workday and approved supporting documentation before processing and sign-off.
- Perform the first-level review of PaySpace payroll registers with all relevant database input and variables, change reports, variance reports, exception reports, net pay listings and statutory outputs before final approval by the Payroll Manager.
- Investigate unusual movements, errors and data exceptions, document resolutions and escalate significant matters promptly.
- Oversee monthly payroll-to-general-ledger, salary control, benefits, tax and payment reconciliations, with reconciling items cleared within agreed timelines.
- Coordinate accurate and timely statutory submissions and payments, including monthly and periodic employee tax obligations, and maintain supporting evidence.
- Ensure complete, accurate and audit-ready payroll records are retained in accordance with company requirements and applicable legislation.
- Support internal and external audits, payroll control testing, access reviews and remediation of identified issues.
- Coordinate PaySpace tax-year and statutory updates, configuration testing and controlled system changes, with appropriate approvals and evidence.
- Partner with HR and Finance on new hires, terminations, remuneration changes.
- Supervise, coach and develop payroll team members, monitor quality and deadlines, and promote clear accountability and knowledge sharing.
- Identify opportunities to standardise, simplify and automate payroll processes while maintaining appropriate controls and segregation of duties.
- Protect confidential payroll and remuneration data and comply with applicable data protection and information-security requirements.
- Ensure accurate administration and reconciliation of payroll-related third-party payments, including retirement funding, medical aid, garnishee orders and other authorised deductions.
- Relevant payroll qualification, diploma or equivalent practical experience (required)
- Minimum 5 years’ hands-on payroll experience, including at least 2 years in a senior or supervisory capacity (required)
- Strong hands-on PaySpace experience, including processing, validation, reporting and issue resolution (required)
- Practical Workday knowledge sufficient to validate employee master data and manage HR-to payroll data dependencies (required)
- Experience processing and reviewing multiple payrolls in a multi-entity environment (required)
- Strong knowledge of South African payroll tax, statutory reporting and payroll-related labour requirements (required)
- Experience with payroll controls, reconciliations, audit evidence and confidential employee data (required)
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and proficiency in Microsoft 365 (required)
- Strong analytical, problem-solving skills (required)
- Proven ability to supervise, coach and coordinate a payroll team in a deadline-driven environment (required)
- High attention to detail, sound judgement, integrity and discretion (required)
- High sense of accountability (required)
- Able to multi-task and work under pressure (required)
- Clear, confident communication (written and verbal), and the ability to breakdown complex ideas (required)
- A collaborative mindset, working smoothly with cross-functional teams to hit shared goals (required)
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects without dropping the ball (required)
- Adaptability (required)
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central or another ERP and payroll to-general-ledger integration (nice-to-have)
- Exposure to payroll process automation, system implementation or integration testing (nice-to-have)
- Experience in a SOX-aligned, listed or highly controlled environment (nice-to-have)
- Cross-border or multi-jurisdictional payroll exposure (nice-to-have)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Medical Aid
- Provident fund
- Group life
Betway Africa is the African arm of Betway, the sports-betting and online-casino brand owned by Super Group (SGHC), a holding company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Operating since 2006, it delivers sports betting and casino products - including the Jackpot City, Lucky Nugget and Ruby Fortune brands - across markets such as South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique. The division employs more than 1,000 people, with offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. It covers functions spanning marketing, technology, finance and customer care for Betway's African operations.