Manager: Payroll Finance and Reporting
AVI Limited
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Permanent
Closing Date 07 August 2026

Job Details

Division
Financial Shared Services
Minimum experience
Mid-Senior
Company primary industry
Consumer Goods
Job functional area
Finance

Job Description

GROW A GREAT CAREER WITH THE COMPANY THAT GROWS GREAT BRANDS!

Our AVI Finance Shared Services (FSS) Division is central to AVI’s financial health, operating as a dynamic hub of financial excellence. Under the FSS umbrella, we manage key functions such as Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Management Accounting, Cashbook and Treasury, Business Analysis, Payroll, Master Data, Benefits, Financial Reporting, and Facilities Management.

Step Into a Role That Makes an Impact! We’re seeking a Manager: Payroll Finance & Reporting to drive success at AVI Finance Shared Services (FSS) Division in Location, City. This role is designed to manage HR Administration, Group HR and Management Accounting Budgets. Manage payroll bank account, payroll recoveries and oversee monthly payroll reconciliations. Manage staff overseeing administration and reconciliation of general and payroll finance. Manage staff overseeing daily, weekly and monthly Management Information Systems reports to Business Units that ensure that AVI adheres to statutory and business unit requirements.

Reporting Structure:

Reports to: Director: Finance Shared Services
Direct Reports: 2 (Payroll Accountant and HR Reporting Administrator)
Key Areas of Impact:

Finance Management

Prepare, consolidate and submit annual departmental budgets with strict adherence to deadlines
Prepare, consolidate and submit quarterly departmental forecasts with strict adherence to deadlines
Manage departmental expenditure in relation to approved budgets worth over R62 million
Analyse and report on all variances from budget on expense items
Monthly analysis of General Ledger
Prepare monthly financial journals and accruals
Ensure supplier invoices are processed and allocated to relevant GL account
Manage recruitment and training recoveries to ensure zero variance on recovery accounts at year-end

Asset Management & Capital Expenditure

Review and maintain departmental asset register
Ensure workflows for asset acquisition, disposal and transfers are submitted and approved
Conduct regular audits on assets to ensure accuracy of asset register
Oversee complete asset verification and count and financial year end
Prepare and submit annual capex budget
Reconcile capex projects and capitalise on completion of project, with correct depreciation period

Payroll Finance

Manage monthly payroll recoveries of salary and third party costs from non-NBL companies worth over R1.2 billion per annum
Manage payroll bank account
Review monthly cashbook and bank reconciliation
Prepare monthly PAYE, UIF, SDL recon. Investigate and resolve reconciling items with an annual total of over R500million
Prepare reconciliation for NBL and Ciro.
Review monthly payroll reconciliations (SA, Namibia, Zambia, and Botswana) to ensure limited reconciling items as per audit requirements. Total of 46 balance sheet reconciliations per month
Mapping of payroll postings to correct GL/Customer accounts
Payroll postings queries and trouble shooting
Review and approve journals for manual payroll postings
Review monthly leave and bonus pay-outs report

Statutory Reporting

Manage the preparation and consolidation process for each Site’s Employment Equity submission. Finalise and submit to the Department of Labour by the specified deadline.
Assist the business with Department of Labour Director General review and inspection in terms of Section 43 of the Employment Equity Act of 55 of 1998
Populate, employment equity, skills development and training spend information for all business units for submission of the BBBEE report.
Oversee the preparation information for annual training reports (ATR) and headcounts for skills planning processes (WSP). Format spreadsheets to enable L&D to submit to the SETA by relevant deadline
Oversee quarterly submission to StatsSA for AVI Head Office, NBL, Ciro, Spitz, Gant and Indigo
Provide data and analysis for additional Head Office statutory reporting
Monitor master data specific to statutory reports

Audits

Review of requisition release strategies
Prepare reports and Information required by the auditors
Oversee internal and external payroll audits for AVI Group

Projects

Provide training to payroll administrator on the payroll journal and reconciliation. With focus placed on the problematic areas in our recons and ways to equip the Payroll Administrators to better understand recons and postings.
Review and update Standard Operating Procedures and Works Instructions for all tasks.
Continuous automation of current report set with the view to empower business and to supply efficient reporting
Actively engage in new initiatives/projects in order to address the impact on general reporting and the project specific reporting outcomes
Test new developments on SAP database in partnership with ITSS
Implement SAP Payroll Intercompany postings for Non NBL entities.
Implement Payroll Live posting for Spitz, Gant and Green Cross
Automation of EEA2 and EEA4 reports for AVI Head Office, NBL, Ciro, Spitz, Gant and Indigo
Automation of Quarterly Stats SA reports for AVI Head Office, NBL, Ciro, Spitz, Gant and Indigo
Automate and maintain AVI Group Employee Costing Report.
Automate Union Reports for the AVI Group
Continuous enhancement implementation of SAP Headcount Budget transaction

Information Analysis and Information Delivery

Monitor integrity of data and highlight any inconsistencies and/or areas of improvement
Identify master data irregularities and report accordingly
Identify and look at ways of improved reporting resulting from master data processes
Perform gap analysis to identify any relevant and useful information that could be incorporated to the reports
Ongoing change impact analysis is required to ensure current report set remains relevant
Various sources and master data types need to be incorporated and aligned to ensure accurate reflection of like data in group and analytical reporting
Adhere to agreed / set stats re data management (e.g. naming standards and storing of files etc.)
Reports are timeously distributed
Specify design of new and sustainable reports according to business needs and requirements
Pro-actively engage business units on information management priorities, as well as recommendations on new reports
Controlling the delivery of information to Business Units timeously and accurately
Continuous review of current reporting offering to ensure relevance to business and decision making requirements
Manage and deliver additional reporting requirements as and when required by business in line with current offering and availability
Relevant distribution and protection of reporting and related content using agreed principles of distribution levels/lists and authorisation control
Extract, validate and provide monthly Leave and Bonus provisions to Financial Shared Services and distribute to site Human Resources Management and Financial Directors
Manage queries on Leave and Bonus Provision from the Finance and HR community
Review training costs report for L&D monthly
Delivery of information to Business Units timeously and accurately in the form of monthly reports and spreadsheets

Annual Processes

Manage the Annual Headcount Budget end to end process from SAP system perspective
Training HR community on the SAP functionality of Headcount Budget process
Manage annual Short Term Incentive cross billing and allocation

People Management

Lead the team as a role model who demonstrates AVI values, inspires, motivates, and coaches team members to maximize the quality of their output.
Drive ownership, accountability innovation and efficient processes.
Ensure IPA’s are set and approved for staff in Payroll Finance & Information Management department. Mid-year and year end reviews must be performed.
Plan knowledge management and ensure backup resourcing to avoid loss of knowledge/information due to attrition.
Develop and report on succession plan.
On the job training provided to direct reports.

What It Takes to Succeed:

Experience that set you up for success:

5 Years financial experience
3 years of experience in preparation or reconciliations
Experience in Payroll Finance
Experience in Tax
Advanced level of understanding for the end-to-end payroll process
People Management of a complex team

Qualifications & Certifications that will contribute to your success:

Bcom Financial Management / Accounting

Additional Requirements that will enhance your impact for success:

5 years SAP HR AND SAP FI
5 year’s experience in payroll
Take the Next Step with Us

At the heart of our AVI Shared Services Divisions is a commitment to excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to work with talented professionals across multiple disciplines, allowing you to grow professionally. If you are passionate about making an impact, solving complex problems, and collaborating with others to drive excellence, this is the place for you.

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Manager: Payroll Finance and Reporting
AVI Limited
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Permanent
Closing Date 07 August 2026