Payroll, Compensation and Benefit Specialist
Experience Education
The Experience Education Student Travel Group is a collective of specialist brands dedicated to delivering exceptional and memorable travel experiences for schools and groups.
Over the last 4 decades, more than 3000 schools across the UK have entrusted Experience Education to facilitate educational travel experiences for more than 1\.5 million travellers, throughout 1000\+ incredible destinations.
Our specialist brands include TravelBound, SkiBound, World Challenge, JCA, Edwin Doran and MasterClass, and they operate across 5 unique travel categories: curriculum tours; ski trips; expeditions; UK activity centres and sports tours.
The role
We’re looking for an experienced Compensation \& Benefits Specialist to join our People Team and take ownership of payroll, pensions and benefits across our UK workforce.
This role is perfect for someone who is detail\-driven, confident with numbers, and experienced in UK payroll processes.
The role will be a part time position, expected to be 3 days per week, but we can be flexible.
What you’ll be doing
- Managing monthly UK payroll, ensuring accurate and complete inputs and compliance with HMRC (RTI, tax codes, statutory payments, P45/P60\)
- Administering the company pension scheme as well as preparing and processing of monthly pension reports and arranging submission and liability payment
- Management of PAYE account with HMRC and ensuring all liabilities are reconciled and paid by relevant due dates
- Administering a range of employee benefits and schemes (medical, life assurance, wellbeing schemes, cycle to work, electric vehicle)
- Supporting salary benchmarking, pay reviews, and maintaining salary bands
- Producing payroll, benefits, and HR data reports for HR and Finance
- Ensuring full compliance with UK employment, payroll, and data protection legislation
- Management of ‘Employee of Records’ Payroll (EOR) for the Experience Education staff based in South Africa and India including EOR Benefits, commission
- End of year pay review process / Bonus review process / coordinating all letter writing
- Reviewing Deel platform and current UK Payroll process development and creating or recommending efficiencies
Essential
- Strong UK payroll experience, including HMRC submissions and statutory payments
- Experience handling pension uploads and auto\-enrolment processes
- Excellent attention to detail and strong Excel skills
- Confident communicator who can support employees with payroll and benefits queries
- Experience with HRIS/payroll systems
- Experience in a multi\-brand or multi\-entity environment
- Salary benchmarking experience
- Part time hybrid working pattern between our office and homeworking
- Annual Bonus scheme
- Opportunities to travel overseas on familiarisation trips
- 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays (FTE – will be pro\-rated to part time hours) and a bonus day off for your birthday; we also have a tenure based annual leave benefit, up to a maximum of an additional 5 days depending on length of service
- Global recognition and reward programme
- Access to extensive online learning resources
- In\-house training opportunities
- Regular social events
- Various employee discounts and offers, including discounted trips with our brands
We believe that people are happier and perform best when they are able to be their true selves and that diverse teams deliver better results.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture and embracing diversity in all its dimensions. This includes inspiring change through increasing awareness of unconscious bias.
Together we will cultivate a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment, where everyone can flourish.
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