To provide a high quality pay and pensions administration service to the College, dealing with queries and liaising with the outsourced payroll team and pension providers, ensuring records are up to date and meet audit requirements. To support the wider HR team with general HR administration support. Key Responsibilities Pay and Pensions Administration To provide monthly information to the payroll provider and ensure that all data is inputted accurately and meeting deadlines. Act as main point of contact with the payroll provider, dealing with any queries. Check monthly payroll detailing variance information, liaising with SLT and Finance to approve. Provide annual and ad hoc information to payroll provider (e.g. holiday information, pay awards etc). Send any pay letters out to staff in a timely way. Deal with all pay related queries from staff, liaising with the payroll provider as required. Deal with queries from and send ad-hoc information as required to the Pension providers. Respond to pension queries from staff, referring to pension providers as appropriate. Produce reports and data as required. Staff benefits Working with the HR Project Lead support the development and implementation of the staff benefit provision. Undertake Benefit Administration, liaising with external providers and other departments as required. HR Administration Supporting the wider HR team with administration as required such as recruitment activity, agency administration, starter and leavers administration and other HR support such as minute taking for Employment Relations meetings. HR System/Data Contribute to HR system good practice and development. Provide data as required for SLT and external reports and surveys. Wider team support and personal development To undertake specific project work as required, under the direction and guidance of the Human Resources Manager. Contribute to the development and implementation of HR policies and procedures. Ensure continuous development and improvement of professional knowledge to ensure the College is at the forefront of HR initiatives and good practice through attendance at events, webinars, training, networking and wider reading etc. Proactively share knowledge, learning and insights with other members of the HR team. Contribute to the continuous process improvement of HR activities and services. Attend and participate in HR Team meetings. Respond to queries from staff and managers, forwarding on to other team members as appropriate. Support the wider HR function by sitting on recruitment panels and delivering staff training i.e. induction training. Support wider college events and curriculum teams as required, e.g., interview skills training with students. Any other duties of a similar level of responsibility as required. Skills, Knowledge and Expertise Qualifications Essential Criteria L2 English and Maths qualification. Experience Essential Criteria Experience of payroll and pension administration tasks. Experience of using a HR or Payroll system. Desirable Criteria HR administration experience. Specialist Knowledge Essential Criteria Current knowledge of basic HMRC payroll related requirements. IT Skills Intermediate level IT skills with good knowledge of Excel and other Microsoft Office applications. HR Systems experience. About Hopwood Hall We are a Further Education College and University Centre offering a range of full and part time courses employing over 600 staff on our campuses in Rochdale and Middleton situated to the north-east of Manchester. Both campuses have ample free parking and subsidised restaurants. We offer staff a range of benefits including free gym membership at our Middleton Sports Arena and generous holiday entitlement. We are committed to being a great place to work and have membership status of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter. We are a Living Wage employer and an accredited Disability Confident Employer. Our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion statement is designed to ensure that unfair discrimination does not take place in any part of our recruitment process. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and colleagues and we expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment. The college complies with Safer Recruitment guidance in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education and all successful applicants are required to undertake a DBS check and other pre-recruitment checks in line with our Safer Recruitment policy. It is an offence to apply for a regulated role at the College if you are barred from working with children (or vulnerable adults if in a role where this applies).