Education Payroll Specialist | Flexible Hours & Pension

North East Learning Trust; Shotton; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full-time, part-time and flexible work

NJ C Green Book

Local Government Pension Scheme

32 days annual leave + 8 holidays

Wellbeing day

Free on-site parking

Store discounts

Discounted gym membership

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

North East Learning Trust is seeking a proactive Payroll Officer to support a reliable, compliant and modern payroll service across the Trust’s schools. The role covers term-time calculations, statutory payments, and both Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers Pension Scheme requirements.

We are modernising payroll with self-service for employees and managers, and you will help embed these improvements while ensuring accurate data across two payrolls and strong customer service for schools

Qualifications

• Bring strong payroll experience, ideally in education, schools, local government or another complex public sector setting.
• Understand education payroll, including term-time calculations, statutory payments, pensions, payroll compliance and differing terms and conditions.
• Confidently process, check and reconcile payroll data across two payrolls.
• Use payroll and system knowledge to improve processes and support effective employee and manager self-service.
• Communicate clearly with employees, schools, HR, Finance, pension providers and external contacts, taking a proactive and customer-focused approach.

Responsibilities

• Process, check and reconcile payroll data across two payrolls with accuracy.
• Embed and improve self-service for employees and managers.
• Communicate proactively with schools, HR, Finance and pension providers.
• Support onboarding of transferring schools and integration of staff records.
• Ensure compliance with local government and teachers pension schemes.

Skills

Payroll processing

Public sector payroll

Pensions processing

Data reconciliation

Customer service

Job description

North East Learning Trust is seeking a proactive Payroll Officer to support a reliable, compliant and modern payroll service across the Trust’s schools. The role covers term-time calculations, statutory payments, and both Local Government Pension Scheme and Teachers Pension Scheme requirements.

We are modernising payroll with self-service for employees and managers, and you will help embed these improvements while ensuring accurate data across two payrolls and strong customer service for schools