Payroll Manager - Education

Duties required : ? maintain a separate payroll for each academy? ensure the accuracy of all payroll transactions? input data relating to staff payments into the payroll database on a regular basis, ensuring that staff are paid on time and receive the correct payments. This will include but is not limited to the following:? All contractual changes? Overtime payments? Absences due to sickness, training, annual leave, strike days or other? Tax, NI and pension changes? Complete month on month net pay check to ensure correct payments are made to staff? ensure that correct payments, reports and returns are made to HMRC, the school's occupational pension providers and other statutory bodies? ensure adherence to auto enrolment and workplace pensions? carry out month and year end processes essential for statutory and other returns? ensure the school's Childcare Voucher Scheme is operated efficiently, that all deductions are reconciled and correct payments made to the scheme provider? answer enquiries from staff and external contacts and agencies, either in person, by telephone or in writing? conduct regular checks to ensure the integrity of the payroll database, updating data as necessary and ensuring that the payroll database is working properly and that problems are identified to the Head of Finance and/or the IT department.? checks to include both calculation of tax, NI, pension and net pay and verification of salary paid against contract of employment? on an annual basis prepare and issue the teachers' salary statements? maintain up to date and comprehensive guidance notes on using the payroll database? reconcile all payroll payments to the financial ledger? in conjunction with the Head of Finance and Executive Headteacher, plan the best way to implement legislative changes and ensure that standard processes and procedures are developed to support any such changes? participate in any projects to update and develop the payroll processes and database, taking a lead on identifying improvements and playing a key role in implementing any resultant changes? liaise regularly with colleagues in finance to ensure that monthly reconciliations for budget control purposes are undertaken and prepare journals for any corrections requiredReporting Responsibilities? prepare budgetary information from the payroll as required by the Head of Finance and provide support to the Head of Finance during the annual budgeting process.? ensure that correct returns are made to HMRC, the school's occupational pension providers and other statutory bodies