Payroll Apprentice

Day to day payroll and pension admin/responding to emails and tickets. Answering calls from the payroll and pension line. Pension queries relating to the five pension schemes we have. Payroll processing, including processing hours and deductions. Pension processing, including enrolling colleagues into correct schemes., We offer hybrid working. There are currently two Payroll Administrators within the team who you will work closely with. The office benefits from dual screens, tea/coffee making facilities and a coffee shop within the building. Within the payroll team, we deliver a range of services that include processing wages across three different payrolls, auditing and processing casual hours via timecards, as well as picking up queries from employees and the third-party businesses we work with. We work closely with multiple pension schemes, the work we do with them can range from monthly submissions, retirement requests, and historic queries.

IMPORTANT: in order to meet the eligibility criteria for an Apprenticeship in England, you must be able to demonstrate at least three years UK residency, or hold a valid visa that meets the exceptions to this rule. Under the apprentice scheme, a minimum of six hours will be invested in training towards the achievement of your qualification. In addition to the support offered through the training provider, a workplace mentor will provide practical advice and guidance throughout the duration of your apprenticeship., To be successful in the role you will have:

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative
  
  The training provider working with us to deliver the apprenticeship is SMART Training and Recruitment.
You can find further details about the training for Payroll Administrator Apprenticeship - Level 3 at the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education . Please note, as part of the Initial Assessment process, all qualifications will be verified by the Learning Records Service (LRS) via the Education & Skills Funding Agency. Training and support will be provided by our specialist Apprenticeship training provider, Smart Training & Recruitment., At Northumbria, we embrace tomorrow. We pursue new thinking, forge new partnerships, create, and exchange new knowledge, and find new solutions. Our inspirational academics, partners and students work together to tackle tomorrow's challenges head on. We are ready for the future whatever it may hold. Awarded the title of University of the Year in the 2022 Times Higher Education Awards, Northumbria University is a research-intensive modern university with a global reputation for academic excellence. Northumbria recorded the biggest rise of any UK university for research power in the Research Excellence Framework for the second time in 2021 and is now ranked top 25 for this measure. One of the largest universities in the UK with over 37,000 students from 137 countries, filled with world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and students at the heart of an outstanding experience, Northumbria is a new kind of excellent university. Discover more about us . Northumbria University is a great place to work. We empower our exceptional people to achieve shared ambitions and promote a positive work life balance. We offer a wide range of benefits including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, continued commitment to your learning and development and more . Our Northumbria Values are guiding principles that define who we are, what we do and what is important to us. Our Values are: Academic Excellence; Innovation; Inclusivity; Collaboration; and Ambition. Our Behaviours describe how we do things and how we work together at Northumbria, reflecting our culture and our decision-making. Our Behaviours are: We listen and learn, we support one another to success, we respect everyone and their contributions, we trust in ourselves and each other and we are bold. Our Behaviours were co-created by colleagues from a range of roles across the University, who worked collaboratively to consider what it feels like to work for Northumbria, and where we need to continue to transform together to achieve what's important to us.