This HR Generalist position will play a vital role in supporting the company’s growth and success by enhancing the experience of all stakeholders through maintaining compliance, supporting recruitment and onboarding and enabling data driven decision-making through reliable HR reporting and record keeping. The HR Generalist will work closely with the HR team to support day-to-day operations and projects, ensuring alignment with our client’s overall HR strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Talent Management
- Assist with the full recruitment life cycle, including sourcing candidates, liaising with agencies and stakeholders, screening CVs, scheduling interviews and reference calling.
- Maintaining job specs.
- Minimize time-to-hire and approach recruitment with urgency.
- Assist with benchmarking.
- Coordinate and support the HR team in the Induction and onboarding process for new starters.
- Learning and Development
- Coordinate and source all training.
- Conduct skills gap analysis.
- Maintain all training records and ensuring the relevant files are kept up to date.
- Assist with the preparation of documents for HR related training courses.
- Assist the HR team in the coordination and administration of the Graduate and Bursary programmes.
- Ensure that we meet BBBEE targets and find solutions for targets to be reached.
- Record Management / System & Reporting
- Provide comprehensive HR administrative support to all HR processes.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records including personnel data, contracts etc.
- Update all HR databases such as headcount and transformation sheets.
- Generate various reports based on employee data and leave.
- Compiling of monthly payroll inputs.
- Assist in benefits administration and employee relations.
- Compliance
- Stay abreast of labour laws and HR regulations to ensure organisational compliance, including workplace health and safety.
- Assist with legislative and SETA reporting i.e. compiling WSP & ATR reports and EE.
- Payroll
- Process monthly payroll on Sage VIP Payroll system, accurately and on schedule.
- Maintain and update payroll records, ensuring all employee data (new hires, terminations, salary changes, benefits, etc.) is accurate.
- Administer statutory deductions including PAYE, UIF, and SDL.
- Prepare and submit statutory returns to SARS and other relevant authorities.
- Manage employee queries related to payslips, deductions, and benefits, resolving issues promptly.
- Reconcile payroll and prepare reports for HR and Finance department.
- Ensure compliance with the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA), Labour Relations Act, and SARS.
- Assist with year-end processes such as IRP5 / IT3(a) certificates and EMP501 reconciliations.
- General Human Resource Support
- Assist with various audits relating to EE, LRA, BCEA and BBBEE.
- Serve as an emergency stand-in for payroll and CCMA-related matters if other HR staff are unavailable.
- Ensure mitigation of risk in the HR department.
- Be a team player and support colleagues (as they will support you), with various HR initiatives and operational tasks.
- Ensure consistent execution of HR strategies across all touchpoints.
- General day-to-day administration.
- Maintain HR filing system.
- Handle general enquiries from employees regarding HR policies and procedures.
- Contribute to employee engagement and wellness initiatives.
- Take minutes of meetings.
- Assist in any other HR related project.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management.Ideal experienceMinimum of 5 years experience in a HR generalist role.2-3 years of experience in recruitment is essential.Knowledge of labour laws and HR Best practices.Understanding of the employee life cycle.Understanding and experience in EE, Skills development and BBBEE.Sage VIP payroll experience.Competencies and desired attributesExcellent written and verbal communication skills.Detail-oriented with strong design skills and a focus on creating high-quality marketing materials.Excellent project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.Collaborative mindset, able to work effectively with internal teams and external clients.To apply for this role please send your CV and supporting documents to
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