Payroll Administrator

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.