Payroll Implementation Analyst – SAMpeople

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £32k - £38k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

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🧾 Payroll

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Arbor Education

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

💰 Private Equity Round on 2020-12

Education • B2B • Software

Arbor Education is a rapidly expanding company dedicated to transforming the way schools operate by freeing staff from administrative tasks and enhancing collaboration. Utilizing a Management Information System (MIS), Arbor Education provides tools to improve school processes and educational outcomes for over 5,000 schools. Their mission-driven team, consisting of ex-teachers, education technology engineers, and specialists, is passionate about providing effective solutions to improve the educational sector. Founded in 2011, Arbor Education is driven by a commitment to innovation and the well-being of teachers and students, along with a dedication to diversity and inclusion in its workforce.

📋 Description

• Conduct line-by-line reconciliations of historical YTD figures, including gross pay, net pay, PAYE, National Insurance, TPS, LGPS, and statutory deductions • Plan, execute, and evaluate parallel payroll runs for schools and Multi-Academy Trusts • Compare new-system outputs against legacy payroll data and resolve discrepancies • Provide audit-ready reconciliation sign-off documentation • Deliver verified payroll setups to the ongoing client delivery team • Liaise with Implementation Specialists to obtain, summarise, and verify onboarding information and datasets • Analyse, track, and document payroll variances and resolve root causes with implementation and finance teams • Maintain live payroll system frameworks and implement platform updates and schema adjustments • Execute system and account audits • Incorporate payroll and pension legislation changes into active account builds • Develop system, document/template, and process improvements • Prepare reconciliation evidence and sign-off materials for operational handover • Design integrated payroll journals and operational summaries for client financial controllers • Follow information security policies and UK GDPR data governance • Perform administrative data validation and workplace support tasks • Maintain authoritative knowledge of company products and features

🎯 Requirements

• Proven, documented payroll operational experience in a fast-paced environment • Up-to-date, comprehensive knowledge of standard UK payroll frameworks and pension delivery protocols • Practical experience and sound technical knowledge of computerised payroll systems, payroll implementation methodologies, and platform builds • Solid operational understanding of payroll compliance, legal parameters, and auditing structures • Ability to organise, manage, and deliver multiple customer payroll builds concurrently under tight schedules • Highly developed data management, structural data profiling, and spreadsheet analysis skills • Meticulous attention to detail • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Ability to convey reconciliation processes clearly to stakeholders • Desirable: experience with UK education-sector payroll setups, multi-academy trusts, or local authorities • Desirable: formal payroll or pension practitioner certification, such as CIPP or equivalent • Desirable: foundational experience with cloud-based SaaS platform implementations

🏖️ Benefits

• 32 days holiday plus Bank Holidays (25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company-wide days) • Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary • Comprehensive wellness benefit with 24/7 virtual GP, mental health support, counselling, and personalised health checks • Private Dental Insurance with Bupa • Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) • Enhanced paternity leave (6 weeks full pay) • 5 free return-to-work maternity coaching sessions • Access to Calm and Bippit financial wellbeing coaching • Flexible working • Social committees and team, office, and company-wide events • Dedicated professional development training budget, including CPD courses, upskilling resources, and professional memberships • One paid volunteer day per year • Wellbeing initiatives including mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, and mental health first aid training