Job Title: Payroll Manager
Location: Ware
Salary: Competitive
Job Type: Full-time (part-time considered)
The Company:
St Edmund’s College offers modern facilities in a magnificent country setting in rural Hertfordshire, providing a safe and stimulating environment for young minds.
The Role:
We require an individual to co-ordinate and manage in full the efficient running of the College and Prep School’s Payroll service.
Main duties and responsibilities:
The main responsibility is to ensure the effective and efficient payroll role and proactively contribute to the smooth running of the Accounts Department.
Manage the full payroll service to include, but not limited to:
- Creation and maintenance of staff accounts within the finance system
- Preparation of maternity schedules/term time adjustments schedules
- Process pay increases and or changes
- Process tax code changes/ student loan deductions
- Enrol members into the TP and Standard Life Pension schemes and manage the auto enrolment process for opt outs
- Process timesheets
- Calculate salaries for part time/ pro rata staff
- Create salary sacrifice calculations
- Run payroll routine within finance package
- Review the monthly payroll data with Deputy Bursar
- Create monthly supplier payment requests for Pensions/Taxation and attachment of earnings
- Generate and distribute monthly payslips/P45, annual P60
- Send payroll bacs file via payment software
- Submission of RTI and MCR reports
- Submission of Standard Life pension deductions
- Generate payroll period end
- Filing
- Dealing with payroll queries
- Reconciliation of monthly payroll reports to nominal ledger
- Complete annual P11D returns
- Monthly variance analysis actual results to payroll budget
- Assist Deputy Bursar with termly payroll salary forecasts
- Assist Deputy Bursar with the production of the annual payroll budget
About you:
- Attention to detail, a high level of accuracy and the ability to work independently are required
- Must have comprehensive understanding of tax and payroll laws
Whilst we are proud to be England’s oldest Catholic school, we welcome applications from all colleagues who wish to be part of our special ethos.
Whilst not in a teaching role, as a Payroll Manager, you will be working on a regular basis in a school in a role which gives opportunity for contact with children. As such, you will be in regulated activity and an enhanced DBS check (which includes children’s barred list information) will be required in advance of appointment.
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. As with all College staff members, you will therefore be responsible for providing a safe environment in which children can learn.
Additional benefits:
- Free lunch during term time
- Free parking
- Pension scheme
If you have the relevant skills for this role then please click Apply
Closing date for applications when all forms must be received by HR is: Midday, Thursday 2nd November 2023.
Interviews to take place: Shortly after the closing date.
Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of: Payroll Officer, Senior Payroll Administrator, Payroll Accountant, Accounts Clerk, Payroll, Senior Finance Clerk, Senior Payroll Executive, HR and Payroll Specialist, Payroll Admin, Payroll Coordinator will all be considered.
