Senior Payroll Officer

40 Hours per week, 52 weeks per year

Based in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

We are looking for an experienced Senior Payroll Officer for our Corporate Finance Team at Ruskin Mill Trust. This role is key within the Finance Team covering payroll and other duties for all entities within Ruskin Mill Trust, which will include Colleges, Schools, subsidiary companies or the wider Trust.

For full details of duties please refer to Job Description but will include:

• Processing monthly payroll for a multi-site complex organisation and produce the period close reports for each entity.
• Deputising for the Finance and Payroll Manager with regards to payroll processes and responsibilities in event of their absence.
• Keeping up to date with payroll legislation, ensuring that RMT and its subsidiaries always maintain compliance.
• Adhering to HMRC rules and to manage submissions to HMRC on monthly and annual basis.
• Providing support to the payroll officer in ensuring pension submissions are sent on monthly basis and information is kept up to date.
• Managing the process of attachment of earnings with local councils, ensuring that employees are aware of the impact of any instructions received.

The post holder is to contribute to the whole life of the College and Trust, always remembering that our core purpose is to improve the education and lives of the young people at the College.

Working at Ruskin Mill Trust is incredibly rewarding; we offer competitive salaries and holiday allowances, an auto-enrolment pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, a health cash plan and employee assistance programme via Medicash. In addition, staff receive valuable training opportunities including an in-depth interactive induction to enable our new team members to experience our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum and opportunities for further training and academic research including our own MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.

Full details of our benefits can be viewed on www.rmt.org/careers

Established in 1984, Ruskin Mill Trust is an educational charity that operates in England, Scotland and Wales. We offer exciting outdoor learning environments, utilising practical land and craft activities to support the development of work and life skills in young people with autistic spectrum conditions and other learning differences. Our research-led method, Practical Skills Therapeutic Education, is inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner, John Ruskin and William Morris. Working with hand, head, heart and place, Ruskin Mill Trust helps individuals to re-imagine their potential.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Level Disclosure as well as a medical check, references, evidence of qualifications, plus verification of the right to work in the UK.