Job Description

The Dean Close Foundation is seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented Payroll Manager to administer and control the payroll and pension functions for approximately 725 employees. The Payroll Manager will be responsible for ensuring accurate and timely payment to employees, as well as compliance with pension enrollment requirements. This role requires expertise in payroll processing, pension administration, and knowledge of payroll and pensions legislation.

Payroll Duties:

• Methodically and accurately process monthly salary payments for all employees.
• Input new starter details, including P45 information, student loan, and National Insurance details.
• Assess, auto-enroll, and set up new members in the pension schemes, including the Teachers\' Pension Scheme.
• Check and process monthly timesheets.
• Implement a new cloud-based system for timesheets and payslips.
• Calculate pro-rata payments for mid-month starters and leavers.
• Calculate and process back payments as required.
• Calculate and make payments or deductions for holiday pay.
• Record, calculate, and make statutory payments or salary deductions for sick pay, SSP, SMP, etc.
• Produce, analyze, and balance all payroll reports for review by the Finance Controller.
• Produce a BACS listing and collaborate with the Bursar for final payroll checks before submission of the BACS file.
• Generate and distribute P45s when necessary.
• Submit FPS and EPS to HMRC on a monthly basis.
• Send payslips via the School email account to all employees.
• Create an accounts file for export into the accounting system and post payroll journals.
• Ensure timely payment of all payroll deductions.
• Reconcile payroll accounts on a monthly basis.
• Complete year-end processes for HMRC and prepare payroll for the new tax year.
• Produce and distribute P60s.
• Prepare, complete, and submit P11Ds.
• Implement upgrades to payroll software as required.
• Stay up to date with Payroll and Pensions legislation.
• Produce and balance monthly cost center reports using financial reporting software.

If you are a dedicated and meticulous professional with a passion for payroll management and pensions administration, we invite you to apply for the role of Payroll Manager at the Dean Close Foundation. Join our team and contribute to the efficient and accurate processing of payroll and pension functions for our employees.

Please see the job description for a full list of duties and further details.

Part time (0.8 FTE) may be considered for the right candidate.

Dean Close School is a co-educational day and boarding school which provides continuity of education from age 2 to 18. The School was established in 1886, and is set in 50 acres of parkland in the centre of Cheltenham. In 2015 the Dean Close Foundation was formed, when the School acquired St John\xe2\x80\x99s on-the-Hill Preparatory School and three nurseries in the Chepstow area. In 2017 the Foundation purchased a further two nurseries, Tree Tops in Cheltenham and Gloucester, taking its total to five.

Dean Close is renowned for focusing on individual development. Small classes, excellent learning facilities plus a 550-seater professional theatre, amphitheatre, 2 floodlit astro-turfs, 25m indoor pool, climbing wall, indoor rifle range, dance studio and fully equipped gymnasium all help to nurture each child\xe2\x80\x99s strengths and talents. With around 300 pupils in the Prep School and 500 in the Senior School, Dean Close is small enough to allow everyone to know one another and to feel valued. It also allows everyone to get fully involved in the life of the School. However, it is large enough to have an extremely strong boarding community, vibrant and exciting creative arts, impressive academic results and great sports achievements across all ages.

Visitors to Dean Close regularly comment on the atmosphere, saying how warm and friendly they find it, and we believe that this positive environment can be attributed directly to the Christian heart and principles of the School.

Dean Close Foundation