Michelle Barnett

Experience

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  GEC Marconi

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

  Secretary/Administrator

  • Providing a secretarial and administrative service to two managers including arranging diaries, typing, filing• Providing administrative support to the sales and marketing team• Ordering of all stationery and monitoring the stationery budget• Arranging and minuting of meetings• Booking of all travel arrangements including car hire, flights, hotels, taxis

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  Essex County Council

  Jan 1999 - Feb 2016

  • Management of the contracts and processing team within payroll (approximately 25 staff).• Ensuring the efficient processing of payroll services for the organisation and approximately 500 external customers working with other teams across Payroll and Corporate Operations.• Working with the team to improve efficiency and generate income/additional services for customers.• Investigate complaints related to payroll processing and providing information for freedom of information requests.• Working with HR teams (internal and Schools) on contractual changes and documents including contracts of employment• Support internal and external audits of payroll and implement audit recommendations.• Support and implement the culture change within Corporate Operations.• Working with team and colleagues to improve processes and improve efficiency for team and customers. Show less • Management of an Adult Community Learning Centre with responsibility for all premises and health and safety issues• Management of a team of 20 staff with direct line management for a team of 6 managers working across different disciplines – finance and HR, customer services, admin, exams, premises and crèche including responsibility for recruitment, induction and developing the staff. Undertaking monthly one to one and team meetings and ensuring all staff are appraised and have a development plan in place.• Managing the Centre budget, income and expenditure, of approximately £400K • To develop and implement operational processes and procedures within own Centre and across the Service• To work with other Operations Managers across the Service and the Quality Improvement Manager to improve customer service across Adult Community Learning• To work with other Operations Managers across the Service to improve all aspects of operations • To lead the finance staff (approximately 30) across the Service to ensure consistent processes are in place• To undertake partnership work with local organisations and working with the other building user who occupied part of our building• Working as part of the operational management team to drive forward the operations side of the Service Show less • Management of two teams of staff within the contracts and payroll processing teams.• Supporting staff/customers with queries and close liaison with HR.• Check and authorise contracts of employment.• Check and authorise payroll reports and emergency payments.• Part of the Customer Working Group for Corporate Operations which included supporting the Market Stall event.• Working with colleagues in Payroll and HR to implement organisational and legislative changes.• Designing, producing and distributing a monthly report to the contracts team and other relevant colleagues to feedback on our performance against our KPIs.• Working with team and colleagues to improve processes and improve efficiency for team and customers. Show less • Management of a team 7 finance and personnel staff across three sites, including carrying out yearly appraisal and regular reviews, induction of new staff, monitoring staff workloads, holding monthly one to one and team meetings• Monitoring the budget (approx £2.5M) including ensuring official purchase orders are raised, invoices and payment claims processed within deadlines, commitments made on the College’s finance system, management of the petty cash account, overseeing the banking of all income, monthly reconciliation and end of year closure of accounts• Monitoring income and expenditure using a computerised financial management system• Preparing and recommending to the Principal & Vice Principals the annual budget headings • Providing monthly budget reports to the Principal and profiling the budget.• Implementing, maintaining and reviewing all financial and personnel procedures and systems for the Area.• Responsible for recruitment and selection of staff including writing adverts, shortlisting, interviewing and ensuring all relevant checks eg references, medical, CRB are carried out.• Manage the maintenance of the Area staff database ensuring payments to tutors and other staff are accurate, in accordance with contracts of employment and are carried out within required timescales• Preparing contracts of employment for all staff• Responsible for sickness absence returns, overtime claims, recruitment monitoring, staff database, staff training Show less • Direct line management of finance and personnel staff, Office Manager and Exams Officer including carrying out yearly appraisal and regular reviews, induction of new staff, monitoring staff workloads, holding one to one and team meetings, • Monitoring the budget (approx £1M) including ensuring official purchase orders are raised, invoices and payment claims processed within deadlines, commitments made on the College’s Terms system, management of the petty cash account, overseeing the banking of all income, monthly reconciliation and end of year closure of accounts.• Monitor income and expenditure using a computerised financial management system.• Prepare and recommend to the Principal & Vice Principals the area’s annual budget headings. • Administer the Learner Support Fund• Providing monthly budget reports to the Principal and profiling the budget.• Responsible for recruitment and selection of staff including writing adverts, shortlisting, interviewing and ensuring all relevant checks eg references, medical, CRB are carried out.• Advising staff on matters relating to pay and service conditions and finance and personnel procedures.• Manage the maintenance of the Area staff database ensuring payments to tutors and other staff are accurate, in accordance with contracts of employment and are carried out within required timescales Show less • Supervising a team of four staff, including allocation of work• Undertaking monthly supervision and performance management reviews for clerical staff• Paying of all invoices, banking of incoming monies, commitment recording, and maintaining computerised (excel) budget sheets, producing a monthly budget report for the Principal Officer• Providing an administrative service to the Principal Officer including producing a monthly report collating statistical data using Access• Dealing with queries and complaints from the public• Organising and chairing monthly admin team meetings• Ordering of all office supplies and equipment• Induction of new/temporary admin staff and other staff into admin procedures• Developing and managing administrative systems, including IT systems and maintaining appropriate administrative records and data Show less

  • Payroll Projects Officer

    Nov 2014 - Feb 2016

  • Contracts & Processing Manager

    Feb 2011 - Nov 2015

  • Operations Manager

    Nov 2006 - Feb 2011

  • Assistant Team Manager

    Jan 2011 - Jan 2011

  • Area Manager - Finance & Personnel

    Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  • Finance & Resource Manager

    Jan 2004 - Jan 2006

  • Senior Finance Assistant

    Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

  • Team Leader

    Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

  • Administrator

    Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

  • Admin Assistant

    Jan 1999 - Jan 2001
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  Anglia Ruskin University

  Dec 2015 - Aug 2016

  Administrator

  • Weekly and monthly payroll processing for Chelmsford and Cambridge Campuses • Monthly invoicing for internal and external clients• Liaising with candidates and hiring manager via telephone, email and face to face• Auditing of right to work paperwork• Registering new candidates

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  Chelmsford City Council

  Aug 2016 - Dec 2016

  HR Support Officer

  - Ensuring DBS checks are renewed- Producing contract change letters and contracts of employment- Chasing probation reports- Writing process notes- Writing user guides for manager and employee self service- Writing test scripts for system testing

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  Office of Essex Police Crime Commissioner

  Jan 2017 - Aug 2017

  Correspondence Officer

  • Writing letters on behalf of the Police & Crime Commissioner including liaising with relevant departments within Essex Police• Minuting board meetings• General ad-hoc administrative tasks• Managing the team mailbox and dealing with telephone callers

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  Barnes Farm Infant School & Barnes Farm Junior School

  Sept 2017 - Aug 2020

  School Office Manager

  Finance• To ensure all financial administration, income and expenditure, is undertaken in a timely and accurate manner.• Assist in the preparation of the annual budget • Assist auditors in the schools’ audits. HR• Direct line management of office staff including development, appraisal and training.• To co-ordinate and assist in the recruitment of staff including employment clearances.• To maintain the single central record for all staff, volunteers, third party providers • To ensure that all computerised records are maintained and up to date • To deal with all confidential correspondence concerning staff, including disciplinary documentation and taking of minutes. • To raise payroll forms and undertake a monthly payroll reconciliation. Administration • To ensure the efficient and effective running of the office as one of the schools’ main points of public contact as well as the centre of daily administration.• Ensure a professional administrative service is provided to school staff.• To use own initiative to deal with telephone calls/correspondence and personal queries on behalf of the Headteacher and to prioritise workload.• To use initiative and continually update/create documents and systems etc.• To support the upkeep and development of the schools’ websites.• Maintenance of the schools’ calendars. GDPR• To coordinate and manage responses to statutory requests • To maintain information management and record-keeping systems, related to areas of responsibility, to ensure compliance with GDPR regulations.• To assist the DPO on the annual GDPR audit• Carry out regular GDPR environmental walks • To record security incidents• To ensure information asset and data flow mapping are in place and up to date. • To keep staff up to date with current advice and guidance. • To ensure Privacy Notices comply with GDPR regulations. Show less

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  Trinity St Mary’s C of E Primary School

  Sept 2020 - now

  School Business Manager