Payroll Administrator

Portfolio Payroll Limited

Remote-friendly

Job Summary

Portfolio Payroll are currently working with a busy and vibrant client payroll business in Newcastle who are currently recruiting for a 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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