Product Manager - Education Payroll and Pensions
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The Vacancy
Education Payroll & Pensions Specialist
Join us in shaping the future of payroll software for schools and trusts
We're looking for an experienced education payroll professional to help drive the development of Every Payroll, our payroll and pensions software designed specifically for the education sector.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who has spent their career running or supporting payroll for schools, MATs, or Local Authorities and wants to use that expertise in a different way.
You do not need previous Product Management experience. What matters most is your deep understanding of education payroll, pensions, legislation, and the day-to-day challenges faced by schools and trusts.
Working closely with our Product Director, software engineers, and managed service teams, you'll act as the voice of the customer and the subject matter expert behind new system enhancements.
You'll help ensure our software remains compliant, accurate, and fit for purpose as payroll and pension requirements continue to evolve.
What you'll be doing
- Using your education payroll expertise to influence and shape future product enhancements.
- Translating payroll, pension, and legislative requirements into clear system improvements.
- Reviewing payroll calculations, pension submissions, and statutory outputs to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Supporting the design, testing, and rollout of new functionality.
- Providing expert guidance on education payroll processes, pay scales, and pension schemes.
- Working closely with development teams to explain requirements and answer payroll-related questions.
- Troubleshooting complex payroll and pension issues and helping identify long-term solutions.
- Collaborating with internal teams and customers to understand challenges and improve user experience.
- Identifying opportunities for automation, efficiency gains, and improved self-service functionality.
What we're looking for
We're interested in speaking with professionals who have substantial experience in:
- End-to-end UK education payroll.
- Payroll processing for Local Authority schools, Multi-Academy Trusts, and/or Single Academy Trusts.
- The Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) and Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Pension submissions and reporting, including schemes and interfaces such as MDC, MCR, iConnect, Civica UPM, WYPF, and similar.
- Experience with education payroll software such as Every Payroll, iTrent, Cintra, or similar platforms.
- Interpreting payroll outputs and resolving payroll or pension calculation queries.
- Keeping up to date with legislative, pension, and compliance changes affecting the education sector.
It would be great if you also have
- Experience supporting payroll system implementations, upgrades, or migrations.
- Exposure to Agile ways of working, ticket management tools, or software development teams.
- A CIPP qualification or equivalent payroll certification.
Why this role is different
It's an opportunity to take the education payroll knowledge you've built over your career and use it to influence the future direction of a payroll platform used by schools and trusts across the UK.
You'll work alongside product and engineering specialists while becoming the go-to expert for education payroll and pensions within the business.
If you're passionate about education payroll, enjoy solving complex problems, and want to make a broader impact across the sector, we'd love to hear from you.
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About IRIS
As one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.
IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.
Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.
Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.
It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.
That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.
IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.
They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.
We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women.
These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.
IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.
This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.
Why work for IRIS?
The Benefits
Developing your career
We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:
Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.
Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.
Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee’s development needs and providing a commitment to a ‘learning culture’ which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.
We’re committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.
Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.
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