Specialist payroll for education
Driven by extensive experience with colleges, schools, and academies, our payroll for education solutions are built to simplify the complexities of running HR and payroll.
Education payroll services for colleges, schools, academies, and MATs
There’s no payroll quite like education payroll; multiple pay scales and spine points across diverse role types, multiple jobs per employee, multiple pensions, intense government compliance.
With over 40 years’ experience delivering payroll for education across colleges, schools, academies, and MATs, we know the ins-and-outs of your needs and challenges; so, we’ve built a suite of HR and payroll systems for education to manage everything with ease. No matter how many spine points, pensions, and working patterns you deal with, you’ll always be fully compliant, you’ll always pay your people correctly and on time, and you’ll ease the payroll and HR admin burden from your teams.
Trusted by education
We work with hundreds of education customers across the UK spanning colleges, schools, academies, and MATs. They trust us with their requirements, and so can you.
Built for your needs
We’ve built education specific functionality across both education payroll software and outsourced services—from position management to reporting to pensions—so you always have everything you need.
Personalised, holistic support
Our support team aren't just real people, but real payroller's. They understand how payroll works, and they understand your challenges, so they can offer holistic, human support.
Total control of your payroll
If we could describe our education payroll services in one word, it would be robust. Packed with advanced functionality, there are no limitations to your spine points, pensions, and everything else.
“Cintra provides its clients with exceptional service, from consultation, to implementation, support and beyond. Every single employee, whether it be from support, the bureau, reception, implementation, training, or project team, could not be more friendly, supportive or helpful if they tried. You will not find a better organisation to help, assist, support and facilitate in all your Payroll or HR software needs.”
HR Manager
Long Road Sixth Form College
HR and payroll services for the education sector
Whether you’re looking for new payroll software or an outsourced service, our payroll solutions are built with your complexities in mind. Together, we’ll transform your complicated payroll into a smooth, flexible, and compliant experience for you and your teams—from educators to maintenance to admin. Our solutions spanning HR and payroll for education are:
Tailored
From position management to FE workforce data to pensions, it’s fully tailored to your industry’s needs.
HMRC compliant
We’re HMRC compliant, keeping you up to date with legislative changes to help ease your compliance burden.
Cloud-based
Whether you’re accessing payroll or employees are self-serving, our cloud-based solutions are easily accessible.
Fully secure
We’re proud to be ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified, along with our BACS and CIPP PAS accreditations.
Date-driven
Enable easy maintenance of TPA and LGPS banded contributions and accurately backdate pay, tax, NI, and pensions.
Fully integrated
To not just sync your back-office systems, but to enable transformational HR change that's backed by solid payroll engine.
PAYROLL FOR EDUCATION
Find out more about Cintra's HR and payroll services for the education sector, tailor-made for your unique needs.
Manage pay structures and spine points with ease
Multiple roles? Multiple pay structures? Multiple pensions? Both our education payroll software and cloud-portal for service customers have post-specific features allowing you to manage multiple spine points, roles and salaries on a per-employee basis with ease—ensuring accuracy, consistency and compliance.
- Multiple pay scales and spine points
- Multiple pensions
- Multiple contracts and roles per employee
- Date-driven
- Automated calculations and deductions
- Automated payslip, P60 and P45 creation and delivery
Powerful reporting, total education compliance
Easily run every essential report you need in Cintra. Our HR and payroll systems for education come with pre-built reports that automate your compulsory reporting and provide additional insights, including:
- Local Government Pension Scheme reports
- HMRC required reports
- Teachers’ Pension and MCR reports
- Further Education Workforce Data Collection
- Performance and productivity
- Planning and financial drivers
CASE STUDY
£90,000 saved on absence
St Chad’s Academies Trust, with 19 schools and 755 employees within the Diocese of Lichfield, save £90,000 on absence annually and 2 days of payroll resource per month with Cintra’s part-managed payroll for education. Here’s how.
Ease your pension admin burden
We know how difficult it can be keeping on top of pension requirements, especially in education. Alongside our education payroll software and services, our full pension administration service is here to ease your burden across both education and private pensions, including:
- Teachers' Pension Scheme
- Local Authority Schemes (LGPS)
- Private pension schemes
- Pension provider payments
- Pension reporting
Partner with real people with in-depth expertise
We’re proud of our support model. Whether you’re looking for education payroll software or an outsourced service, we’ve got people at every level who wholly understand the education sector, and are on hand to support when you need it.
- Software support team made of real payrollers
- Dedicated account management
- Large teams for service continuity
- Qualified payrollers running our outsourced service
- 90% of support calls answered first-time
- 100% of support calls returned in 2 hours
Once we made the change to Cintra, they promised to hold our hands until we were ready to let go… they honoured their promise, and we continued to pay staff correctly and on time. It is an integrated system for both HR and Payroll.
Payroll Officer
Oldham Sixth Form College
Fully secure and accredited payroll for education
Discover HR and payroll services for the education sector
Payroll Software
Manage your complex payroll in-house with Cintra’s specialist education payroll software.
Payroll Outsourcing
Enjoy the peace of mind of a fully managed education payroll services—flexible and scalable to your needs.
HR Software
Cloud-based HR software that helps education transform their people and payroll processes within a single platform.
Cintra Groups
Transform how you manage multi-site payroll across campuses, college groups, and MATs with Cintra Groups.
Chat with us about your education payroll
Our payroll and HR experts are always on hand to talk about your challenges, and how our education payroll services help colleges, schools, academies, and MATs.
Our education payroll solutions have been developed especially for your unique needs—so get in touch to see it in action!
