Generous holiday allowance
Charity / volunteering days
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Payroll and Pensions Trainer (Education)

Salary Competitive plus bonus and benefits
Location UK with travel to Manchester, Leeds and Grimsby
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

Education Division ¦ Remote ¦ Travel Required

At IRIS Software Group, we're trusted by thousands of organisations across the UK to deliver mission-critical software and services. Within our Education Division, we're continuing to grow and are now seeking an experienced Payroll & Pensions Trainer to help develop the next generation of payroll professionals supporting schools and education organisations.

The Opportunity

This is a unique opportunity for a payroll professional who enjoys sharing knowledge, developing people and driving best practice.

As our Payroll & Pensions Trainer, you'll design and deliver high-quality training programmes focused on education payroll and pensions, ensuring our teams have the knowledge and confidence to provide exceptional service to our customers.

You'll work with a wide range of stakeholders, delivering training both remotely and face-to-face while creating engaging learning content and supporting continuous improvement across our operations.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Designing and delivering payroll and pensions training programmes.
  • Providing specialist expertise on Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), LGPS and education-sector payroll regulations.
  • Creating engaging learning materials, guides, assessments and e-learning content.
  • Delivering workshops, webinars, classroom sessions and one-to-one coaching.
  • Supporting payroll colleagues with complex queries and technical guidance.
  • Helping teams stay up to date with payroll legislation and compliance requirements.
  • Evaluating training effectiveness and implementing improvements.
  • Supporting onboarding, system migrations and business change initiatives.

What We're Looking For

We're interested in speaking with candidates who have:

  • Proven payroll experience, ideally within a bureau, outsourced payroll or education payroll environment.
  • Experience delivering training, coaching or supporting learning initiatives.
  • Strong knowledge of payroll legislation including PAYE, National Insurance, statutory payments, RTI and year-end processing.
  • Understanding of Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), LGPS or similar pension arrangements.
  • Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
  • The ability to simplify complex payroll concepts for different audiences.
  • Professional payroll qualifications such as CIPP or AAT (desirable).

Why Join IRIS?

At IRIS, our people are at the heart of our success. We are proud to be recognised as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Women. We invest in our people, encourage continuous development and provide opportunities to make a meaningful impact within a market-leading organisation. 

If you're an experienced payroll professional looking to combine your technical expertise with a passion for training and development, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help shape the future of payroll excellence within our Education Division

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Please note:

We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.

 

INDLOW

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.

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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