Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work for a small, family run business in a team of hardworking and conscientious colleagues. This additional Schools Payroll Administrator post has been created in order to cope with the ever increasing demand for our services. Previous school finance/payroll experience is welcomed but not essential as full training will be provided to the successful candidate. Upon completion of training, the successful candidate will enter a hybrid office/work from home rota of 3 days per week in the office + 2 days per week working from home.

The Schools Payroll Administrator position at Working with Schools Ltd is an end-to-end role that involves the following main responsibilities:

Being the nominated day-to-day payroll contact for a selection of our schools.

Annual provision to each school of schedule of dates outlining deadlines for input data, date of initial run report to school for checking, last date for validation and changes, Bacs submission deadlines and pay dates.

Processing standard payroll input such as adding new starters to the system, removing leavers (and producing P45s), entering overtime and absence return data.

Calculating changes to salaries, including processing associated backpay or overpayment recoveries where necessary.

Calculating sickness and family leave entitlements, including production of maternity/adoption pay schedules that are then provided to employees.

Processing deductions in respect of nursery vouchers and other salary sacrifice arrangements.

Processing scale point increments and implementing nationwide pay awards.

Maintenance and upkeep of a 'staff list' database for each school where you are the nominated day-to-day payroll contact.

Ensuring the correct pension contributions are being deducted from staff salaries.

Liaison with both the Teachers' Pension Scheme and Local Government Pension Schemes in order to complete daily/monthly administration and annual reconciliations.

Production of paper payslips, or distribution of electronic payslips to staff.

Applying coding notifications sent in from HMRC, such as tax code changes, student loan notices and national insurance category updates.

Making HMRC RTI submissions, both FPS & EPS.

Calculating Apprenticeship Levy figures.

Assisting schools with auditor queries and/or requests.

Upkeep of the Working with Schools payroll input portal for the schools where you are the day-to-day payroll contact.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 24,500.00-26,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Additional leave Casual dress Company pension Free parking On-site parking Profit sharing
Application question(s):

Do you have previous experience of using Microsoft Excel on a day-to-day basis? Do you have previous experience of using Sage 50 Payroll?
Experience:

Payroll: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Manchester