Payroll Administrator
Process employee records, payroll and statutory information.
- LevelEntry-levelPeople
- AccessStart freeFull pathway in NIBS Plus
- Workplace Lab7 tasksReal work, assessed
What you'll do every day
- Maintain employee records and personnel files
- Collect and check payroll inputs each cycle
- Run the payroll from inputs to payslips
- Administer leave, attendance and statutory deductions
- Answer employee payroll queries
- Prepare the documentation payroll audits ask for
Skills you'll build
5 skills, each with its own courses and the other careers that use it.
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Payroll administration
Used in 1 career path
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Payroll systems
Used in 1 career path
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Microsoft Excel
4 courses open now
Used in 9 career paths
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HR administration
Used in 2 career paths
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Compliance and POPIA
Used in 6 career paths
Tools you'll use
- Payroll software
- Microsoft Excel
- HR systems
- Microsoft 365
Named as the tools the job uses. NIBS claims no relationship with any vendor.
Your pathway, step by step
Start free; NIBS Plus opens the full pathway and the Workplace Lab.
- Foundation Digital Workplace Foundation: the systems, files and communication every office runs on.
- Skill Courses The skills this role needs, one short course at a time.
- Workplace Lab 7 practical tasks in the software the job uses.
- Portfolio The documents, spreadsheets and records you produced, kept as evidence.
- NIBS Credential Assessed against the NIBS standard and recorded on your Skills Passport.
- Professional Recognition SABPP: what membership means and how a designation works.
- Formal Progression The Office Administrator occupational qualification, where it is offered.
The Role Pathway that teaches this career
This Role Pathway is coming soon and cannot be started yet. The courses below cover some of its skills now.
Skill Courses that also cover this role
Workplace Lab: the 7 tasks
Your simulated employer sends the brief and the files. You do the work in the real software; a facilitator assesses it against the NIBS standard.
- 1 Load a batch of new employees with complete records
- 2 Check a month of timesheets and leave forms for errors
- 3 Run a payroll cycle and produce payslips
- 4 Reconcile payroll totals to the general ledger
- 5 Prepare the PAYE, UIF and SDL schedule
- 6 Respond to a set of employee queries in writing
- 7 Set access and retention rules for payroll data
Where it leads
Job titles employers use for this work.
- Payroll Administrator
- Payroll Clerk
- HR and Payroll Assistant
- Payroll Officer
Vacancies, learnerships and internships are posted in NIBS Campus as they come. NIBS does not guarantee placement.
Professional recognition
Learning can lead to a profession. Here is what that means for this career.
SABPP
South African Board for People Practices
Human resources and people practices
- Why join
- Professional registration in HR, a recognised standard of practice, continuing professional development and a ladder of professional levels to grow through.
- Membership
- Registration considers your qualification, level of work and experience; an RPL route exists for people who do not meet the standard route.
- Designations the body awards
- HR Technician, HR Associate, HR Professional, Chartered HR Professional, Master HR Professional, on its own requirements
- Recognition of prior learning
- SABPP provides an RPL route for applicants who do not meet the normal requirements.
CPD: CPD recognition subject to approval. SABPP runs a CPD provider system; NIBS is not an accredited provider. Relationship: Relevant professional body. NIBS has no partnership with it and holds no CPD approval from it. Membership is between you and the body, on its own requirements.
Formal progression
Where a formal qualification is offered, this career leads toward it. A separate programme with its own registration, assessment and fees, never included in NIBS Plus.
Become a Payroll Administrator.
Join NIBS Campus free and take the first course today. Add NIBS Plus when you want the full pathway and the Workplace Lab.