Role Introduction

Eton College currently have an exciting and rare opportunity for a Payroll and Benefits Administrator to join its Finance department. The role involves being responsible for in house payroll processing from start to end on designated payrolls to ensure that all staff receive their authorised salaries and payments to agreed timescales. The role will be the lead contact on all aspects of pension administration, including Teachers Pension Scheme. The successful candidate will have the ability to multi task and work to tight deadlines in a calm, positive and organised manner.  The post holder must have excellent communication skills, written and verbal, as the role involves interaction with staff at all levels.

Main Duties

• Working closely with the Payroll and Benefits Manager to ensure that payrolls are processed in an accurate and timely manner.
• Responsibility for some of the smaller payrolls (including pensioners) from start to finish, including HMRC submissions, reconciliation and journal posting into the nominal ledger.
• Be responsible for all collating and processing overtime.
• Responsibility for recording of sick leave.
• Check sickness, maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave pay entitlement, in accordance with the College terms and conditions, procedures and statutory legislation.
• Deal with ad hoc queries from staff across the College with regard to their pay and deductions in liaison with HR.
• Assist with year-end processes and reconciliations – such as P35s, P60s, P11ds and PSA.
• Keep up to date with current processes and changes in pension, taxation and employment legislation, ensuring College procedures are updated.
• Run monthly pension schemes (including Teachers Pension), including contractual/auto enrolment processes, monthly submissions and reconciliations.
• Administration of, and annual renewal of the College Life Assurance Scheme and dealing with Death in Service payments.
• Be responsible for the administration of the College childcare vouchers, health schemes & cycle to work scheme.

The Ideal Candidate

To be successful in this role, the incumbent should have:

• Experience of working in an in house payroll environment
• The ability to manually perform a net pay calculation
• Working knowledge of pension schemes
• Intermediate excel skills and must be using excel in current position
• Flexible / can do attitude with the ability to think outside the box
• High degree of organisational skills
• GCSE Maths and English, Grade C or above, or equivalent

Desirable skills for the role:

• Experience of Teachers Pension Scheme.
• Gained or working towards a recognised payroll qualification

Eton College