Payroll Assistant

**Role overview**:
We're looking for an experienced Payroll Assistant to join the team.This is a busy and varied role; responsible for assisting in the payroll preparation and processing of the monthly payrolls.

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**Responsibilities**:
**To assist in the following**:

- UK monthly payroll preparation and processing, including taking ownership of ad hoc changes (ie tax code changes, adjustments to earnings etc);
- Preparing numbers for inclusion in overseas payrolls, liaising with overseas payroll providers and arranging payments to be made;
- Managing relationship with overseas payroll providers;
- Answering payroll related queries from employees around the business.
- Assisting with external payroll reports including preparation of Gender Pay Gap report and P11Ds;
- Processing and calculating maternity, paternity pay, sickness & absences;
- Assisting with calculating and inputting salary sacrifices and salary deductions; and
- General ad hoc payroll admin tasks.

**What you will need to succeed**:

- Must have experience of payroll processing and be able to perform ad hoc calculations;
- Experience of Ceridian advantageous but not essential;
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and be able to prioritise workload accordingly;
- Must have good communication and numerical skills and be able to explain complex payroll issues in an understandable manner;
- Must work well in a team and also individually;
- Must be willing to contribute with equal enthusiasm to a variety of tasks ranging from basic admin tasks to technical calculations and discussions.
- Proven experience of handling sensitive and confidential information with discretion
- Proficient in using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to include mail merge, pivot tables and formulas

What do you get in return?
- 25 days annual leave rising to 30 with service.
- 5% company pension contribution after probation
- Hybrid working, 3+ days in the office.
- Health care cash plan
- Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
- Discounted city centre parking
- Free eye care cover
- Life Assurance
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- EAP (Employee assistance programme)
- Monthly Tes Socials

Who are Tes?

Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century, growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today, Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing, continuous professional development, safeguarding, SEND provision, flexibility through timetabling, and pupil behaviour management.

Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education.

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling, SEND provision, and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and wellbeing tools. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine.

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Talbot Green, Hong Kong, Australia, and Dubai.

We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organization striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability. We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.