Payroll Officer

Blue Arrow; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a School Payroll Officer for an academy trust in Wolverhampton. The role involves financial transaction processing, budget monitoring, and payroll administration, requiring 5 years of finance expertise and familiarity with educational payroll regulations. The ideal candidate will possess professional payroll qualifications and a strong IT background.

Benefits

Disability Confident Employer

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience in finance/payroll.
• Experience working in education required.
• Enhanced DBS disclosure needed.

Responsibilities

• Process and record all financial transactions using the school's finance system.
• Monitor and reconcile school budgets and accounts.
• Support payroll administration, including logging absences and overtime.

Skills

Finance

Payroll Administration

IT Proficiency

Report Preparation

Budget Monitoring

Education

Professional Payroll Qualifications

Tools

Civica Payroll

Xero

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Job description

Blue Arrow are looking for a school payroll officer to work for a academy trust in Wolverhampton.

Requirements:

- Monday to Friday 8:30 - 4:30pm

- Experience in finance/payroll for 5 years minimum

- Have experience working in education

- Will need an enhanced DBS disclosure

Finance:

• Process and record all financial transactions using the school's finance system (Xero).
• Monitor and reconcile school budgets and accounts including petty cash, school fund, and credit card usage.
• Raise purchase orders and process invoices in line with procurement procedures.
• Support payroll administration, including logging absences, overtime, and staff expenses.
• Prepare regular financial reports for the School Business Manager or Governors.
• Assist with audits and end-of-year financial procedures.

Administration:

• Maintain financial records in an organised and secure manner.
• Assist with general office administration as required, including filing, post, and answering finance-related enquiries.
• Liaise with suppliers, contractors, and local authority finance teams.
• Support the processing of funding claims (e.g. pupil premium, high-needs funding).
• An understanding of payroll legislation and calculations including PAYE, SSP, SMP, SPP, SAP etc. National insurance, Student & Postgraduate loans, apprentice levy, pension schemes and pension national auto enrolment regulations.
• Experience of working in payroll administration.
• Be IT proficient with a good working knowledge of Microsoft office programmes.
• Experience and/or knowledge in education specific payroll processing, including pay scales and payments, term time calculations, education specific sick and maternity pay rules and calculations, Teacher's and Local Government Pension Scheme reporting requirements.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft excel and word, including Vlookups, tables, mail merging etc.
• Knowledge and experience of statutory reporting requirements such as office of national statistics, gender pay gap, apprentice targets, trade union facility time.
• Experience of using Civica Payroll system (previously Carval payroll).
• Professional Payroll Qualifications

If you are interested please click to apply.

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