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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The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.