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Lady Masondo

Summary

Seasoned HR professional with a robust background in remuneration management and payroll systems, notably at Transnet Port Terminals. Expert in SAP Payroll (HCM) and labor law, complemented by exceptional problem-solving abilities and a results-oriented approach. Proven track record in enhancing compliance and operational efficiency, showcasing strong analytical and interpersonal skills.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

HR Admin & Remuneration Manager

Transnet Port Terminals
01.2021 - Current
  • Participation in the development, implementation, communication and Administration of the Total Reward system within TPT that serve as a reward for good performance, and also attract and retains apposite skills to Transnet
  • Manage the provision of a comprehensive Remuneration and Benefits for Management, for Bargaining Unit employees, Senior Management and Executives in all the units of TPT HQ
  • Administer TPT standard operating procedures to manage reward practices and drive pay equity within company affordability while ensuring external market relativities are established and maintained
  • Serve as a point of contact/subject matter expect for HR admin, Rem & Benefits between HQ and other TPT Terminals
  • Serve as an internal consultant to HR Business Partners, Line Management and HR Adit team on remuneration & benefits, HR & recruitment matters
  • Facilitate the management and implementation of the performance management system to ensure good performance is rewarded appropriately to motivate continued performance
  • Provide support and guidance to managers and staff across the full range of HR and payroll work and contribute to the successful delivery of Human Resource function through supporting and reflecting the organization’s core values, aims and objectives
  • Ensure that all that all policies are implemented, monitored and maintained
  • Management and control of all Human Resource audits in order to ensure compliance with policies and rectification of non-conformances
  • Develop and implement practices which support savings on Head Office costs
  • Manage and perform the entire Recruitment and Selection Process and in so doing ensuring that HR Admin department has the best person for the position
  • Support the delivery of engagements/projects, as part of people management service delivery team, to the Workforce

Regional Payroll Manager Finance

Transnet Freight Rail
01.2018 - 01.2021
  • Manage and lead monthly payroll processing of bargaining unit employees
  • Servicing approximately 4500 employees with 30 payroll admins in 4 Provinces: Eastern Cape, Free State and Northern Cape on the org structure
  • Achieve job specific deliverables in ensuring that all (4500) employees are paid accurately and timeously through the SAP system
  • Ensure strict adherence to strict and pressurized deadlines
  • SAP (HR) business process owner for Remuneration
  • Liaise with internal and external auditors and implement corrective actions that deal addresses irregularities
  • Maintain salary adjustments, ensuring that the salary adjustments are successfully reflected on the pay sheet
  • Compile annual budget, ensure cost centre is effectively managed and that the allocated budget is not exceeded unless approval is obtained; strict adherence to internal & external policies/ guidelines including PFMA compliance
  • Perform internal audits quarterly in payroll offices including satellite offices, to ensure compliance with policies & other internal controls and standard procedures, ensure that instances of non-compliance are satisfactorily addressed
  • Participate in risk assessment and prepare reports to present to senior management
  • Ensure salary control reconciliations are cleared within the required timeframes long-time projects on timely basis
  • Manage and administering payroll regulatory compliance, correct leave provision and other absence quota accruals and balances approval of leave audits & payments, and other related absenteeism thereby ensuring procedures and processes create an effective control environment
  • Check and sign off all EFT Payments as 2nd authorization
  • Manage and control the allocation of section/utilization of subordinates in unforeseen circumstances when vacancies or absenteeism exists
  • Oversee the verification of pay data changes; run reports to ensure correctness; data reconciliations and year end processes
  • Strategies, Recommend and Monitor the implementation of standard operating procedures and interventions identified for continuous improvement
  • To ensure implementation and monitoring of employment equity programmes & projects and ensure its alignment with equity strategy and associated legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines
  • Consult, advise & train Management/ HCP re: the interpretation of pay policies and procedures
  • Run audit reports on various info types; run reports for external audit purposes
  • Seats and present departments on Absenteeism committee & Wellness forums
  • Represent on HR and Labour Forums and Employment Equity Committee, LBC etc
  • Arrange quarterly Service Level Agreement meetings with Operations Managers within TFR in order to assess the service rendered by payroll department in all the areas in the region
  • Management, guidance and coaching of team members

Acting HR Manager-Generalist

Transnet National Port Authority
10.2017 - 08.2018
  • Responsible for the overall human resources issues impacting Marine department
  • Responsible for overseeing the administration, and assist in management of several functional areas, including employee relations, labor relations, selection and employment, performance management, and training and development
  • Works with line managers to communicate and implement various HR policies and programs, in alignment with corporate, divisional, and business unit objectives
  • Ensure the provision of a comprehensive personnel administration and remuneration service to line management as well as a key accounts service to the Business Unit Managers within Marine Services which is in line with centrally established policies and supports the achievement of operational goals
  • Implement and maintain the remuneration and administrative policies and practices which supports the current and future business objectives
  • Manage and perform the Recruitment and Selection process, that includes advertising, long & short listing, interview process, vetting, medical assessments & drawing up of recruitment documents thus ensuring that TNPA has the best incumbent for the position
  • Onboarding of newly appointed employees as well as managing the induction process
  • Develop, gain acceptance and then implement the Employment Equity Plan for the business in line with current legislation and ensure compliance to employment equity targets
  • Key accounts manager for Marine services operational departments
  • Prepare, monitor and control the annual human resource budget for own cost centre and to ensure expenditure is in line with the approved budge, address any variations thereof
  • Render management service to: Remuneration and Benefits Management to the Training & Development, Recruitment & Selection, EAP and ER Department in respect of the Business Plan, HR Plans, Equity and other HR processes and procedures
  • Involved in the management of the job evaluation and remuneration functions and resources of department
  • Establish organisational arrangements and recruit, develop and motivate own sub-ordinates to ensure that the human resources office operates with maximum efficiency and meets established objectives
  • Co-ordinate the performance management process and procedures for employees to ensure that employees are rated on a bi-annual basis, that good performance is rewarded, and poor performance is consistently dealt with fairly
  • Lead and manage a team by defining, coordinating, and delegating departmental activities to ensure that the team consistently achieves deliverables
  • Lead and manage the workforce planning process
  • Support line managers in the performance management process
  • Analyse and interpret Human Capital reports, statistics (absenteeism, overtime, employee relations, etc.) to identify trends and address appropriately
  • Arrange quarterly Service Level Agreement meetings with the Business Unit Managers within Marine Services in order to assess the service rendered in the following broad sub-categories
  • Change Management and Organisational Development
  • Performance Management and Mentorship Co-ordination
  • Capacity Building (Education, Training & Development, Bursaries & Learnerships
  • Ensure and maintain compliance to the Human Resources Quality Management System to ensure
  • Drive the attainment of EE targets
  • Support line managers to identify and assist employees presenting with wellness issues and refer where necessary
  • Manage and implement the end-to-end recruitment process to ensure the timeous filling of approved vacancies

Senior Human Resources Officer Remunerations

Transnet National Port Authority
Durban
01.2011 - 01.2018
  • Provide comprehensive administration and analytical support of the variety and remuneration policies and procedures ensuring that employees receive benefits due to them in line with Transnet policies and benefits are not abused
  • Control, coordinate and monitor time-keeping systems
  • Efficient facilitation, supervising and support provision to time administrators on T&A functions on PTMW and its issues
  • Prepare, control, co-ordinate & administer and run payroll functions
  • Run reports on SAP to identify payroll errors, reconciliation, testing & corrections
  • Prepare, reconcile and submit electronic updates, IRP5s and IT3a
  • Ensure the processing & administering of off-cycle payments
  • Leave administration

Chief Administrator

Transnet Port Terminals
01.2008 - 01.2011
  • Overseeing and supervision to ensure the rendering of remuneration & personnel administration service to employees
  • Ensure all the received payroll documents are correctly captured on the system, inputs properly checked against the dummy payslips
  • Ensure the Administration of deductions & ensure that they comply with company policies
  • Check all inputs by subordinates and sign off all Captured payment data on system to ensure correct payment
  • Prepare payroll and other related reports to check discrepancies/variances and ensure correctness
  • Administer payroll sign off with the Financial Manager prior to releasing employees’ salaries
  • Interview & process advances for employees with financial difficulties
  • Ensure the completeness & submission of all necessary forms to relevant institutions (Retirements fund, Risk pool, Transmed etc) to ensure time-out payments benefits
  • Check and sign off leave audits quarterly & upon terminations to determine if it has accrued & compensated correctly

Senior Administrator HR Payroll

Transnet Freight Rail
01.2004 - 01.2007
  • Capturing Train personnel hours of duty using journals
  • Ensuring that inputs are captured on SAP for payment, check dummy payslips against timecards and other source documents
  • Prepare SAP reports to check deviations and ensure accuracy
  • Provisions of personnel admin: new engagements, retirements, demise cases & all other out of service cases
  • Employee benefits administration, Third party payments
  • Issuing train free passes and concessions

Administrative Official

Spoornet
09.2003 - 01.2004
  • Data capturing –diesel morning position
  • Issuing time-cards using timesheets and attending to relevant pay queries
  • Leave administration
  • Auditing of motor vehicles logbooks
  • Attending and recording to IOD cases
  • Filing of correspondence in respective files, faxing and photocopying and Stock control
  • Minutes taking in operational meetings
  • Assisting HC Practitioner with recruitment and selection activities
  • Attending and giving guidance to employees on EAP issues such as Benevolent Fund, Risk pool, keeping track of employee’s absence record in my department etc
  • Compiling reports on absenteeism for EAP submissions
  • Arranging induction programmes for newly hired employees

Accounting Clerk

Dept Of Education & Culture
10.2001 - 12.2002
  • Receive check and process Subsistence & Travel allowance claims for officials
  • Receive check and process payments for the service providers
  • Filing and attending to queries regarding claims and S&T payments

Education

Post Graduate Diploma - Business Management

Management College of South Africa

Bachelor of Commerce - Human Resources

Management College of South Africa

National Certificate N6 - Marketing Management

Richtek College
Richards Bay

Skills

  • Knowledge of Payroll
  • BCEA
  • HR Legislation
  • Labour Law
  • Salary packages and benefits
  • Payroll and HR legislation
  • Basic Tax understanding
  • SAP Payroll (HCM)
  • Analytical mindset
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Time management skills
  • Strong ethics
  • Attention to detail
  • Analytical thinking
  • Results oriented
  • Excellent follow-through
  • Communication skills
  • Report writing skills
  • Interpersonal skills
  • People management skill
  • Conceptual thinking
  • Customer orientated

Affiliations

  • SARA, Final stages of GRP certification (Global Remuneration Principle)
  • Institute of People Management (IPM), HR Membership
  • Richtek College, Marketing Management National Certificate N6, Richards Bay

Accomplishments

  • Successfully transformed the HR Admin department into a paperless and a digital working environment.
  • Developed and implemented an electronic filing project to ensure that all TPT personnel files for all employees as well as all payroll documents are filed accordingly for records audit purposes and to ensure data integrity.
  • Successfully developed and implemented a project called 'Know your payslip' where sessions were held to explain the content of the payslips is understood by all employees in the Port of Durban.
  • Successfully developed and implemented a payroll monthly forum in TFR PE region where policies were discussed.

Verifiable record for 100 percent clean record for compliance in HR & payroll processes and procedures

References

Available on request

Personal Information

  • ID Number: 7804260346083
  • Gender: Female
  • Nationality: South African
  • Marital Status: single

Languages

zulu
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Afrikaans
Beginner
A1

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

HR Admin & Remuneration Manager

Transnet Port Terminals
01.2021 - Current

Regional Payroll Manager Finance

Transnet Freight Rail
01.2018 - 01.2021

Acting HR Manager-Generalist

Transnet National Port Authority
10.2017 - 08.2018

Senior Human Resources Officer Remunerations

Transnet National Port Authority
01.2011 - 01.2018

Chief Administrator

Transnet Port Terminals
01.2008 - 01.2011

Senior Administrator HR Payroll

Transnet Freight Rail
01.2004 - 01.2007

Administrative Official

Spoornet
09.2003 - 01.2004

Accounting Clerk

Dept Of Education & Culture
10.2001 - 12.2002

Post Graduate Diploma - Business Management

Management College of South Africa

Bachelor of Commerce - Human Resources

Management College of South Africa

National Certificate N6 - Marketing Management

Richtek College

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