Portfolio Payroll
Summary
Portfolio Payroll are currently working with a busy and vibrant client payroll business in Newcastle who are currently recruiting for a Senior Payroll Administrator with education experience to join their team. Working for an established firm with opportunity for progression this business is the ideal setting to enhance your career.
Key Objectives:
- To process outsourced payroll
- Excellent Service delivery
- End to End Payroll Administration
- Maintain working knowledge and understanding of current statutory legislation
- Enrolling New Starters
- Liaising with HMRC
- RTI, Pensions,
- Collating timesheets
- Inputting data onto the system
- Checking timesheets are correct
- Creating statutory payment schedules & top up
- Manual calculations – starters & leavers, tax & NI, student loans, pensions
- Using imports for data processing
- Early payroll runs & re-runs & payments after leaving
- Apprenticeship levy, Employment allowance, Small ER relief – calculations and implementation
- Payroll reversals/corrections
- Court orders processing
- Taking inbound calls
- General administration duties
Skills and attributes:
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable experience processing school and/or academy payrolls end-to-end
- Working knowledge of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), including contribution bandings and employer/employee reporting requirements
- Experience producing and submitting i-Connect files to the relevant LGPS pension fund/administering authority
- Familiarity with MCR (Monthly Contributions Return) processing and submission
Desirable Criteria
- Experience working within a payroll bureau or shared-service environment supporting multiple school/academy clients
- Understanding of Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) alongside LGPS, where roles span both
- Experience liaising with local authority pension teams and school business managers
Experience with term-time only contracts and associated pro-rata and annualised salary calculations
Salary and Benefits:
- Monday to Friday
- Hybrid working
- 25 days Holiday plus bank holidays
- Birthday off
- Bonus scheme
- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Recognition awards
- Enhanced statutory leave
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The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.
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