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title: "Junior Payroll Officer"
company: "takealot.com"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/takealot-com"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/takealot-com-junior-payroll-officer-878829e5-14be-40d2-b96a-b9c324749080"
apply_url: "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom/jobs/8141538"
workplace: onsite
location: "Cape Town"
employment_type: unspecified
seniority: entry
role: finance-legal
region: middle-east-africa
skills: ["excel"]
date_posted: 2026-08-25T06:54:53.000Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T19:07:02.548Z
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# Junior Payroll Officer

**takealot.com** · Cape Town

Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom/jobs/8141538

## About the role

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented **Junior Payroll Officer**** **to join our team in Cape Town.

We’re 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!

**The position reports to the Payroll Manager.**

**Your responsibilities will include:**

- Data Processing: Capture new hires, banking details, salary changes, and terminations into the payroll systems within agreed SLA deadlines. Processing of Termination documentation as required.

- Time & Attendance: Verify employee overtime, and track annual, sick, or family responsibility leave etc

- Statutory Calculations: Assist with calculations for statutory deductions and filings like UIF and PAYE.

- Query Resolution: Handle routine internal and external payroll questions from employees and managers.

- Reporting: Support month-end reconciliations and reporting tasks

- Employee Documentation: Ensure that all payroll documentation is filed. Establishing/maintaining employee records; ensuring that employee changes are entered correctly and made on a timely basis.

- Payroll Projects: Contribute to Payroll projects when required

- Benefits: Assist with the management and implementation of benefits in relation to payroll.

**Qualifications and Experience:**

- Teritary qualification Businesss Management / Human Resources Diploma or equivalent

- At least 1 – 2 years’ experience in an HR admin role with specific experience in a payroll administration environment

- Experience with time and attendance systems is required

- Experience working on ESS Knowledge of relevant, South African legislation (BCEA, UIF, SDA, PAYE, WCA)

**Minimum Required Competencies:**

- Accounting/Payroll knowledge sufficient to perform journal entries and payroll account reconciliations

- Payroll administration

- Payroll Processes and procedures

- Payroll queries handling

- Reporting

- Strong computer skills

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Strong problem solving skills

- Ability to work in an unstructured environment with diverse cultures

- Detail-obsession

- Advanced Excel

**Attributes Required:**

- Proactive

- Assertive

- Integrity

- Delivery orientated

- Can do attitude

- Ability to communicate and manage well at all levels of the organization

- Written and Verbal communication skills

- Ability to work independently and work well in a team

- Customer service orientation

- Strong planning and organizing skills, and the ability to work under pressure

- Ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks and meet all deadlines

- Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise extreme discretion

**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 forthright but respectful

- is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute

- is analytical, able to use data to make decisions

- is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours)

- is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience

- is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster

- is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input

- is curious and challenge the status quo

- is innovative and enjoys iteration

- is collaborative

- will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.

- thinks like an owner of the business.

- is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING

If you meet the above you are an **Extraordinary Mind** so come and join us!

*Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference*

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