Job Title: Payroll Manager
Salary: £45,000 p/a
Location: Northamptonshire

An exciting opportunity to work for a fantastic hospitality company as their standalone Payroll Manager!

You would be responsible for supporting the Financial Controller in the preparation and maintenance of financial records including payroll.

Responsibilities: 

  • Liaising with HR to receive and input new starters, leavers and changes to contracts
  • Producing payroll reports
  • Reconciling control accounts
  • Maintaining payroll information

Skills: 

  • Experience of Sage 50 Payroll
  • CIPP qualification
  • Excel Excel knowledge and skills
  • Workload prioritisation

If this sounds like you, I want to hear from you today!

JGA Recruitment Group Ltd (“We”) are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.  We strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

 
We are also committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.  We are a specialist payroll, HR & Marketing recruitment agency and recruitment business as defined in the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (our business).  These statements together with our privacy notices set out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.

Our students come from all walks of life, and we want our staffing body to be reflective of the communities we work within. Brooke Weston Trust does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, nationality, culture, age, disability, marital status or socio-economic backgrounds. We encourage and welcome applications from minority groups and foster a work environment that’s inclusive as well as diverse, where people can be themselves.

Job Title: Payroll Business Partner

Location:  Brooke Weston Trust

Salary: £31,310 – £33,330 (Grade 8)

Hours per week / Weeks per year: 37 hours / 52 weeks

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our newly formed central finance team.

Based in the Trust Central Office, you will be part of a dedicated team of professionals responsible for the effective management of the Trust Finances. The Payroll Business Partner will work closely with the Trust HR Manager and external payroll provider to ensure the effective management of the Monthly Payroll processes. This will involve reviewing and improving upon current payroll practices and maintaining the salary budgets and forecasts across the Trust.

We are looking for an individual who is friendly, can use their initiative, has good attention to detail and an ability to work with detailed spreadsheets.

About Brooke Weston Trust

Our Trust was formed more than 25 years ago with a simple and clear mission – to transform educational performance in all of our communities. Working in some of the most challenging contexts, we improve our students’ achievements by making long term commitments to the community and championing new approaches to improve the life chances for young people.

Our members of staff are essential to realising this vision, and a happy, motivated and supported team will deliver the best possible experiences for our young people.

We place great emphasis on creating a supportive and collaborative working environment in all our schools, where all staff can share best practice through our colleague networks. Brooke Weston staff get access to first class professional development through our Ambition Hub, which is also home to the Northamptonshire Teaching School.

To find out more about working for our Trust and the benefits available to staff please check out the BWT Join Us Guide.  

How to Apply

If you think you can contribute in this role and to our organisation we welcome your application!

We would like to invite all applicants to an online meeting to learn a bit more about the new Finance Team structure and how the new roles will work. If you would like to come along to the half an hour session please express an interest by completing this form https://forms.office.com/r/PW3ZGpMZxm

The meeting will take please on 27th May from 11:30 and will last around 30-45 minutes.

Alternatively if you would like to submit an application, please visit the Trust Vacancy Page to find out how to complete an application form and submit a covering statement setting out why you believe you are suitable for the role (no more than one side of A4) these can be returned to Kathryn Pithey – [email protected]

Please contact Kathryn with any further questions about the role

Safer Recruitment

Care and respect for others are the values that lie at the heart of our Trust. The Trust is an Equal Opportunities employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. It expects all staff to share this commitment. All posts require proof of identity and as the role is working with children and young people this will also be subject to an enhanced disclosures barring service check.

A copy of the Trust Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy can be found here – Safeguarding and Child Protection

The Trusts position on the recruitment of Ex-Offenders can be found under section 7 of the Trust SCR, Safer Recruitment and Staff Files Policy – Safer Recruitment and Staff Files Policy

Closing date: 6th June 2022

Interview date: w/c 13th June 2022

Please be aware that if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

 

Expected Start Date: ASAP

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Role: Payroll Manager

 

Whittlebury Park is looking for a Payroll Manager to join its Accounts team.

About us

A great opportunity exists to work for a family-owned, independent business where our people are the foundations of our success. We are proud that many members of the team who joined us when we first opened our doors to the public are still with us today.

As a business we believe that we can always improve and grow our offering to guests. We understand that to achieve this we need a great team who share our beliefs and passion.  The success of the business requires our team to be motivated to make a difference and deliver a warm and welcoming environment to our guests.  This expectation of growth and environment starts with us offering our team exactly this; we will always encourage and support you to improve and grow, we have a commitment to make our workplace an environment where each one of us feel like a valued member of the team.

Each and every job here at Whittlebury Park is essential to the enjoyment of life.

Whether we are welcoming corporate working groups, hosting family celebrations and wedding parties or providing respite to those hoping to escape the pressures of life and simply relax, our mission is always to make someone’s day.

Our multi-property estate and customer base is diverse and growing

If you’ve got what it takes to be a vital part of a busy, professional and high-performing team, then we would love to hear from you.

 

Job Description

The Payroll Manager is a sole payroll position working as part of the Accounts team.

MAIN OBJECTIVES & JOB ROLE:

Your role will be to prepare, calculate and make payments to around 350 employees, produce payroll reports and maintain the payroll systems.

 

MAIN AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY:

  • Ensuring the weekly data from the Planday time and attendance system is available to download by the set deadline each week.
  • Liaise with HR to receive and input new starters, leavers, changes to contracts or personal information onto the Sage 50 payroll system.
  • Prepare, calculate and make payment of the monthly payroll.
  • Upload pension contributions to pension provider.
  • Produce payroll reports for the Financial Controller.
  • Produce month end and year end returns.
  • Reconcile control accounts for payroll, pensions and HMRC.
  • Assisting employees with queries or questions relating to payroll or benefits.
  • Recording and updating monthly benefits to produce P11d’s.
  • Liaise with HMRC and third parties regarding payroll deductions.
  • To maintain payroll information by collecting, calculating and entering data and updating payroll records.
  • To assist the Financial Controller in compilation of all reports, ensuring they are completed on time and accurately.
  • To ensure the accuracy of accounts and financial information provided by other departments within the hotel is processed correctly.
  • To assist with other aspects of the Accounts office as and when required, which may include Sales Ledger, Banking, Control Account Reconciliations and analysis of revenue and costs.
  • This job description is not exhaustive and the jobholder may be required from time to time to carry out other tasks requested by the management.
  • Attend training when required.
  • To be fully aware of and adhere to Health & Safety and Fire procedures.
  • To behave in accordance with the Whittlebury Hall & Spa’s Values and Principles at all times.

KEY COMPETENCIES

  • Experience of Sage 50 Payroll and Scottish Widows Assistme
  • CIPP qualification
  • Excellent Excel knowledge and skills
  • Maintain working knowledge and understanding of current statutory regulations and UK tax regulations including SMP, SSP, P60’s, P11D’s, salary sacrifice, student loans.
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
  • Prioritise workload efficiently and work to strict deadlines
  • Ability to work on your own and as part of the team.
  • Strong understanding of the workings of an office.
  • Basic understanding of accountancy and book-keeping.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills – to deal with customers and external contacts.
  • Good organisational skills and ability to work in line with departmental/company policies and procedures.

 

Salary: Up to £40,000 per year

 

Benefits:

This role is known internally as an S1 role, and Some of the benefits associated with this role are:

  • Free Golf & Leisure membership
  • Cashback on essential health care
  • Employee awards
  • Enhanced Pension Contributions
  • 4x Salary death in service policy (Full time staff only)
  • Staff Canteen with free staff meals (currently paused whilst COVID-19 restrictions are in place)
  • Discounts on: Food & Beverage, Hair Cuts, Spa products, hotel stays, Virgin experience days, New Cars

 

COVID-19 considerations: We have received industry awards for being COVID secure.

HR Consultant – Full Time
Salary: Up to £30,000 p/a
Location: Northamptonshire

We are delighted to be supporting a fantastic HR consultancy to recruit a new HR Consultant to join its rapidly growing business.

Working a client-focused role, this position will be focused on handling HR enquiries and supporting clients through a range of HR challenges that can change in nature and complexity every single day!

The successful HR Consultant will deliver a full range of HR services to clients and these will range from consultation, development and implementation of systems to training, producing high-quality documents and providing advice.

Work may include delivering Annual ‘People Plans’ one moment to designing training that delivers impactful results for clients the next.

So, if you have a love for HR and Training and can demonstrate at least 3 years of HR experience, coupled with the CIPD Level 5 (or above) qualification then we want to hear from you!

An ability to write, develop and critically assess policies, manage complex ER cases and support strategic HR projects, including restructures, redundancies and TUPE is also required.

This is a great opportunity for anyone with future aspirations of working in HR consulting or for a consultancy and the role comes with excellent benefits, work-life balance and career growth opportunities.

Apply today by sending us your CV ASAP to be considered!

JGA Recruitment Group Ltd (“We”) are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.  We strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.
 
We are also committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.  We are a specialist payroll, HR & Marketing recruitment agency and recruitment business as defined in the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (our business).  These statements together with our privacy notices set out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.