Payroll, Compensation & Benefit Advisor
Globeleq
Accounting & Finance
South Africa
Posted on May 5, 2026
Globeleq is a leading owner, operator, developer and investor of a diversified energy portfolio in Africa, delivering tailored energy solutions and supporting the region’s energy transition. Since 2002, Globeleq has built a diverse portfolio of independent power plants generating 1,850 MW across eight countries, with 665 MW under construction and more than 2,000 MW in development. Globeleq is owned by British International Investment and Norfund, the UK and Norwegian development finance institutions. More details: www.globeleq.com
We are seeking a skilled Compensation & Benefits Advisor to support the design, implementation, and management of reward strategies across the organisation. This role sits at a mid-to-senior professional level, providing expert advice on compensation structures, benefits programmes, and market competitiveness while partnering closely with HR and business leaders. The role will also be fully responsible for payroll across the GQ group covering UK and other countries in the continent of Africa.
This is a permanent position with primarily responsible for compensation, benefits and payroll for a group. Our employees are based in the UK and on the Continent of Africa.
- Application Deadline
- May 11, 2026
- Department
- HR
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Location
- South Africa
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Reporting To
- Senior HR Business Partner
Key Responsibilities (this list is not exhaustive)
Payroll:
- Manage the end-to-end payroll administration for Group and Corporate staff payrolls across multiple jurisdictions (UK, Zambia, expatriate and from time to time South Africa), ensuring that all authorised payroll changes are implemented and actioned accurately to meet all payroll and statutory reporting deadlines.
- Administer and manage end of year processes for each jurisdiction, liaising as required with the payroll vendor.
- Ensure all payroll related functions are processed within the deadlines (e.g., P45s, P11ds, P60s and pension contributions).
- Ensure all HR payroll related information is kept up to date, including correctly processing all starters and leavers.
- Maintain accurate records of all payroll transactions, instructions and requests in a confidential manner; ensuring that all records are available for audit as required.
- Provide full analysis of payroll and associated data to management accounts ensuring that all costs are clearly assigned to the correct cost codes.
- Manage and respond to all matters and queries relating to payroll from employees and vendors.
Compensation and Benefits (Reward):
- Full compensation benchmarking using our existing pay philosophy and salary internal salary scales.
- Analyse pay data to ensure internal equity and external competitiveness
- Contribute to annual compensation review cycles (salary reviews, bonuses, incentives)
- Salary offer build ups for roles under negotiation
- Compensation benchmarking for current and future positions
- Support managers and business in consistent job levelling across multiple jurisdictions
- Support managers and business in job grading roles and positions
- Knowledge in both Patterson, but also Willis Towers Watson grading
- Work directly with the Senior HRBP to maintain and develop Globeleq’s compensation but also reward philosophy
- Partner with HR Business Partners and business leaders to provide expert reward advice
- Support organisational design and job evaluation processes
- Provide guidance on pay decisions, promotions, and new hires
- Build and develop up on our Benefit strategy
- Evaluate benefit offerings against market trends and organisational needs
- Own the benefit renewal process for Group.
- Maintain the benefit roadmap and lead on the delivery to our employees.
HR Administration:
- Act as the Power User on all HRIS systems (IFS, SharePoint, PwC Payroll).
- Manage the end-to-end HR administration process for new starters, leavers and transfers. This includes supporting the recruitment process, obtaining references, conducting right to work checks and arranging exit interviews.
- Maintain accurate employee and HR records in compliance with HR best practice, retention guidelines and data protection requirements.
- Work closely with Finance for our Annual operating plan (AOP) for accurate labour budgeting.
- Create and administer offer of employment letters, contracts of employment, changes in employment contracts and other correspondence relating to the employee lifecycle.
- Manage and coordinate employee benefits administration for the Group & Corporate risk & benefits schemes. This includes processing new starters, leavers and changes. Also includes liaising with the benefit providers and ensuring that invoices are processed in a timely and accurate manner.
- Advise employees on basic HR queries, escalating to the wider team as required.
- Support the wider team with ad hoc duties and projects as required, including but not limited to supporting with routine compensation matters, providing data related to expatriate tax matters, providing information for audit requests, preparing information for management reports and coordinating lunch and learn events.
Skills / Competencies
- Attention to detail
- Advanced excel
- Analysis
- Planning & organising
- Time Management
- Communication
- Creativity & innovation
- Decision making
- Diversity & ethical behaviour
- Achievement focus
- Teamwork
- Excellent IT skills – proficient in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Experience, Knowledge & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in HR, Finance, Business, or related field
- Minimum of 3-7 years industry experience
- CIPD or Reward qualification desirable
- Experience in managing end to end payroll across diverse entities.
- Knowledge of WTW, Mercer and Remchannel
- Strong understanding of statutory payments and the ability to perform manual payroll calculations.
- Benefit administration experience useful.
- UK and other employment taxation knowledge a must
- Relevant HR administration experience.
- Comfortable working in a fast paced environment
About Globeleq
We develop, own and operate power plants utilising various technologies across the African continent. With many years of international industry experience, the support of committed shareholders, and long-standing project, technology, finance and government partnerships, we have the financial strength, management and operational expertise to power Africa to realise its potential.
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