Welcome to Pay Academy
We manage payroll and pensions solutions for small and not so small employers in the UK. What service are you after?
Our Services
Payroll
We offer a complete managed payroll solution for employers large and small. We are a small team of payroll experts offering a bespoke service for payrolls ranging from 1 to 1001 employees from our Derby office. We handle all aspects of statutory deductions and payments, AEOs, student loans, holiday accruals, auto tax code updates and RTI submissions. We have a BACS solution which allows us to settle payments directly from your account to your employees’. We report in PDF and/or Excel – no logging on to a cloud, no excessive reporting or pages of superfluous data. Simple, straightforward reporting tailored to your accounting and reporting needs. We charge per payslip so our fees are purely volume-driven – no ticking clock. You can pick our brains as often as you choose.
Pension
The introduction of the auto-enrolment workplace pension has created additional responsibilities for keeping your employer pension portal up to date. Pension portals vary depending on the provider but in all cases information has to flow both to and from the pension’s provider. We are now managing nearly a dozen different pension portals on behalf of many of our payroll clients. We can also register with The Pensions Regulator as your agent in order to update and manage your TPR compliance. So if you don’t want the headache of pension administration why not entrust it to the same people you trust with your payroll? Providers we currently work with: Aegon, Aviva, Legal & General, NEST, Peoples Pension, Royal London, Smart Pensions and Standard Life.
Our Clients
Splice
They have ably supported us through significant growth, internal restructure and AE; always with a “can do” attitude – Kate Higham, HR and Finance, Splice Post
Angst Productions
Pay Academy has saved me many times. They always know what needs to be done and have done it before I realise I need to do it! – Annie McGeoch, Finance manager specialising in TV production
Dewynters
Fast, efficient and accurate. That’s the service we want and the service we get – Simon Shimell, Finance Manager, Dewynters
David Nieper
We all need payroll to be 100% accurate and 100% reliable. Pay Academy have been faultless for ten years.
Our Team
Shirley Hall
Doctor of payroll and founding director in 2005. Shirley worked at Cooper Parry in varying roles over 18 years (including setting up the payroll bureau). She left to wander around in industry for a bit before coming home to payroll with Niki and Pay Academy
James Dean
James joined us originally in 2016 on a short term contract to help us get our clients auto-enrolment ready. He enjoyed it so much that he never left. Now a fully-fledged payroll administrator, he is still our go-to guy on pension work
Niki Caister
Chartered accountant and founding director of the company in 2005, previously a partner at Cooper Parry in Corporate Finance and before that a senior auditor. Yawn….
Petra Misiakova-Nettleship
Petra joined us from the big corporate world of Sainsbury’s payroll department where she had worked for many years. It has been a big change going from very big to - let’s face it - very small but she has never looked back (although she misses the staff discount)
Sharon Brown
Our invaluable office manager and general organiser of all things. Sharon has had a few previous lives including one as a registered nurse. Always handy when one of us is feeling peaky
Michelle Angus
Longest serving/suffering; Michelle joined us back in 2012 coming from a payroll background in a large school. Time served and experience has earned her the honour of working with a number of our more complex payrolls
Latest news
Tax & Facts: All you need to know for 2022-2023
Here it is – the much-anticipated Tax & Facts: everything you need to know in 2022-23 relating to tax, national insurance student loans, minimum wage and statutory payments. I can feel your enthusiasm… don’t read it all at once! National Minimum Wage Age GroupFrom April 2021From April 202223+£8.91£9.5021 to 22£8.36£9.1818-20£6.56£6.8316-17£4.62£4.81Apprentices under 19£4.30£4.81*Apprentices aged 19 and…
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It never rains but it reigns
In 2022, to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the Government has announced an additional bank holiday on Friday, June 3. What does this actually mean for employers and employees? Legal entitlement (statute) The first thing to note is that bank holidays are not statutory holidays. They are, as the name suggests, simply non-banking days. Under…
What else can we do for you?
Necessity is the mother of invention – so some wise person once said and we have seen some impressive technological developments across many aspects of business over the last couple of years. So we have a few new bells and whistles that you might be interested in so here goes…
A tax by any other name
The tax increase that isn’t tax (except that it is). So, what do we know about the new Health and Social Care Levy? 1.25% paid by the employee;1.25% paid by the employer;From April 2022 it will be a temporary increase in Class 1 and Class 1A NIC;From April 2023 it will be redefined as a…
It’s the Final Furlough
Furlough grants extended to employers were never intended as a support for business. It was and remains funding for workers who find themselves without any work; administered and distributed by their employers. It is a state benefit, delivered via employers, in the same way as many businesses act as tax collector on behalf of the…
Tax Update Card 2021-2022
All your essential tax details for payroll management are here in Pay Academy’s annual Tax Update Card. Download and print out and stick it on your wall.
