Payroll Specialist Full Time

About the Role

• The purpose of the Payroll & Taxes Specialist role at One Acre Fund is to ensure efficient coordination of payroll processing and tax compliance. You will focus on maintaining data accuracy, adhering to regulatory requirements, and enhancing payroll processes to achieve operational excellence. You’ll maintain payroll software, coordinate payroll processing in 10 countries and build the capacity of a team of 10+ payroll administrators across Africa. You will report to the Payroll & Taxes Manager on the Global HR team.

Country payroll coordination

• Knowledge management – design end-to-end payroll process and guide for program country JL1-8 payroll, transfer knowledge through training, maintain a repository of the SOPs
• Troubleshoot systems and tools used to process payroll and enhance them to make sure they’re relevant to current business practices
• Meet with country payroll leads weekly to monitor compliance with the payroll calendar and process, and provide them with technical support on payroll software and tools

Taxes and Statutory Compliance

• Complete monthly tax processing submission for 2 countries and oversee tax submission in 3-4 other countries.
• Further systematize and automate tax submissions wherever this is difficult.
• Support with resolution of historical compliance challenges and internal and external audits.
• Test tax and pay system configuration for 5/10 countries monthly

Technical ownership and maintenance of pay and tax systems

• Payroll software (Sage 300 People) and service providers.
• Helpdesk support – Zendesk and Jira
• Revenue authorities and statutory fund management institutions