Lead Payroll Administrator
The King's School
Worcestershire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 16 February 2023
Job overview
The King’s School, Worcester wishes to appoint a Lead Payroll Administrator to join our friendly Finance Department. The primary responsibility of the role will be to provide a competent, effective, and timely payroll function for our Foundation of approximately 360 employees.
If you are an experienced payroll professional with outstanding organisational skills, who is personable and a great team player, we welcome your application.
This position would suit those who have worked in a supervisory role, as well as those who have sound payroll experience and are looking to make the next step in their career.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Co-ordinate all matters relating to payroll and pensions, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and appropriate approval at all stages. Complete monthly payroll for around 360 employees.
- Ensure all processes are compliant with current payroll requirements, including relevant tax, pension (auto enrolment and pension salary exchange arrangements) and NMW legislation.
- Oversee and assist with updating information and relevant databases including recording of starters and leavers, SMP, SSP, HMRC reporting, earnings attachment orders and BACS processing.
- Ensure that all payroll and pension queries are responded to promptly and with sensitivity.
- Responsibility for processing pension submissions, assessments, and uploads to relevant pension providers.
- Management of core payroll processes including Apprenticeship Levy, processing online payslips, P60, P11Ds and PSA calculations.
- Produce the Annual Gender Pay Gap Report.
- Assist with annual renewal of healthcare and life cover policies.
- Provide support with the preparation of the payroll budget and reports for month end and year end reporting.
- Resolve reconciling items arising from monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
- Liaise with HR to monitor new staff, leaving staff and current pay rates.
- Liaise with and provide information for auditors for annual audit, as well as leading the TPS audit.
- Line manage the Payroll Assistant.
- Perform ad hoc duties as required by the Director of Finance and Business Development.
Experience and Skills Required
- End to end payroll experience is required (Sage 50 payroll experience desirable).
- Excellent working knowledge of payroll processes and Microsoft Excel. SIMS would also be an advantage.
- Good understanding of UK payroll legislation and the ability to implement ongoing changes.
- Strong attention to detail and analytical skills.
- Ability to work in a team and autonomously.
- Highly organised, with an ability to prioritise.
- Comfortable in communicating at all levels across the Foundation as well as external organisations such as HMRC, Pensions Regulator etc
- Positive attitude, with the ability to problem solve.
- Ability to develop the payroll function to ensure it continues to meet business needs.
- Knowledge of Teachers’ Pensions desirable.
Hours of work:
This is a part time, year round role. We welcome applications from those interested in working approximately 25 hours per week which can be worked across five days or condensed.
Please read the applicant information booklet below for a full job description, person specification and details of how to apply.
How to apply
Candidates should submit their CV to the HR team recruitment@ksw.org.uk
Please note that we will accept applications for this role on an ongoing basis until a successful candidate is appointed.
In order to provide our pupils with a well-rounded and enriched educational experience that is truly representative of the world in which they grow up, the King’s Foundation strives to place equity, diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything we do, ensuring that we build a community which is truly representative of all backgrounds and experiences. As such we believe that we will do that best if our employees come from different backgrounds and if we create an environment of inclusion and belonging for them.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and will be expected to adhere to all safeguarding, welfare and health and safety policies and procedures of the school.
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About The King's School
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The King’s Worcester Foundation is a dynamic community of independent day schools for boys and girls aged from two to eighteen. It is a family of three schools, the Senior School (11-18), King’s Worcester, and two Prep Schools, King’s St Alban’s (2-11) and King’s Hawford (2-11), based across two beautiful sites.
Attracting over 1,300 children from Worcestershire, the West Midlands and beyond, it provides an inspirational education, helping girls and boys to thrive and reach their true potential.
The Senior School educates approximately 850 pupils aged 11-18 in a beautiful city-centre campus. Re-founded by Henry VIII in 1541, the School sits on the bank of the River Severn in the embracing arm of one of England’s finest cathedrals and adjacent to its sports fields, arguably some of the most beautifully located in the country.
The School was delighted to achieve impressive GCSE and A-level results in 2023, the most recent year when public examinations were taken. The Sunday Times listed King’s in their Top 10 Independent Senior Schools in the West Midlands for their A-level results, with 80% at Grades A*-B, and 46% of all grades being A*- A, which compares to 26% nationally. King’s pupils also excelled at GCSE, with 62% of grades at 9, 8 or 7 and 40% of grades being 9 or 8, equivalent to the A* grade, which is the largest number of pupils ever achieving top grades at King’s.
King’s Worcester is a profoundly inclusive, welcoming community, sustained by the warmth of its relationships. The School combines history with innovation, the vigour of a busy city-centre day school with the immersive life of its boarding school origins and academic excellence with co-curricular engagement and success.
Our Values and Vision
The School aims to focus on helping young people to reach their full potential at school in preparation for leading confident, fulfilled, and unselfish lives as adults.
Through the Schools’ values of ambition, resilience, humility, creativity and kindness, King’s has the vision that every member of the King’s community will be curious, caring and confident, fulfilling their mission to seek excellence in all they do and provide an outstanding preparation for life.
Independent Schools Inspectorate
“Pupils achieve highly in both academic and extra-curricular areas and especially so in art, drama, music and sport. The quality…is excellent.”
View King's Worcester latest ISI report here.
Good Schools Guide
“A highly regarded yet down-to-earth cathedral school that can’t fail to charm, at the same time as being a go-to school for ambitious parents. For us, it’s the warmth that is its USP. This is a school that wears its heart on its sleeve and is all the better for it. Couldn’t be more caring if they tried.”
View King’s Worcester latest Good School Guide report here.
See King’s Worcester Virtually
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Our Staff
King’s Worcester is a hugely welcoming and fulfilling place to work. We are incredibly proud of our reputation. Our wonderful employees and our enviable King’s community are what set the school apart. The Senior School currently employs 103 teaching staff and 139 support staff in a variety of roles, from teachers, sports coaches, language assistants and technicians to professional services roles across functions including IT, finance, human resources, administration, and business development.
King’s staff come from a variety of backgrounds (both teaching and the commercial world), contributing a diverse range of talent and experience, which enables us to provide our pupils with a well-rounded and enriching educational environment. We strive to place equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of everything we do.
We are committed to developing and helping our colleagues to thrive while they working in the Foundation. Each year we also welcome PGCE students from the University of Worcester to complete their placements at King’s.
Working for King’s
You can discover more about working for King’s and the benefits provided by visiting their website. https://www.ksw.org.uk/the-kings-foundation/jobs-and-vacancies/
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