Senior Payroll Advisor at Meridian Trust in Sawtry

This role is for an experienced payroll professional to join our core trust team as a Senior Payroll Advisor. You will hold a recognised CIPP payroll management qualification or have equivalent experience and have managed a large payroll within an education setting. You will be able to demonstrate a good working knowledge of payroll and pensions legislation together with an understanding of teacher and support staff terms and conditions, and be able to apply those to resolve payroll queries from our 36 schools.

The post holder will report to our Payroll & Pensions Manager and the key duties include:

• Providing timely, expert advice on payroll and pensions queries to the school HR & Finance Officers, acting as a super-user for our HRIS and training new users across the Trust.
• Maintaining accurate guidance documents, pay tables and pay calculators and ensuring trust-wide compliance with agreed ways of working for payroll and pensions administration.
• Supervising the payroll / pensions officer to ensure Core Trust payroll and Trust pensions queries and submissions are done in a timely manner.
• Using your IT skills to extract and utilise payroll data to support the work of the wider HR team.

Meridian Trust offers a wealth of fantastic benefits for teaching and support staff which include:

• Apprenticeship and CPD opportunities which allow you to gain specialist knowledge in a role you are passionate about developing in.
• Opportunity to jump start your career in teaching through our dedicated Initial Teacher Training Team (ITT).
• Support for mental health and wellbeing through our Employee Assistance Programme and other resources.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Defined benefit local government or Teacher's pension scheme.
• Healthcare benefits including free eye test vouchers and flu vaccinations.
• Free on-site parking.
• Discounts on a wide range of benefits from everyday essentials to holidays.

Meridian Trust is a successful multi-academy trust founded on its commitment to people and communities. Our proven approach over more than a decade has elevated us to a respected and admired academy trust, a national leader in education and a source of great pride to the communities we serve. The Trust currently operates 32 schools across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire and has forged strong links within all these communities. We are committed to high quality professional development and career opportunities for all staff.

The Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. 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. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as online searches.