The Vacancy
At TPT Retirement Solutions, we're committed to delivering excellent outcomes for our clients, members and colleagues. We're looking for a Payroll Project Analyst to join our Payroll team and play a key role in supporting payroll projects, system improvements, onboarding activity and process enhancements.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with payroll experience who enjoys solving problems, working with data and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver change. You'll help ensure payroll projects are delivered accurately, efficiently and in line with regulatory, audit and compliance requirements.
You will be responsible for:
Supporting the planning, coordination and delivery of payroll-related projects, including system upgrades, implementations, payroll transfers and onboarding activities.
Assisting with testing, user acceptance testing (UAT) and go-live readiness.
Analysing, validating and reconciling payroll data to ensure accuracy.
Investigating variances and supporting issue resolution.
Creating and maintaining project, process and control documentation.
Supporting compliance, audit and governance activities.
Working with colleagues and stakeholders to implement improvements and embed new ways of working.
Providing clear updates, guidance and knowledge sharing across the business.
Skills, Qualifications & Experience:
Experience supporting payroll projects, system changes, testing, onboarding activity and process improvements.
A strong understanding of end-to-end payroll processes, controls and statutory payroll requirements.
Payroll operations experience, ideally within a complex or high-volume environment.
Experience supporting testing activities, including preparing test scenarios and recording outcomes.
Strong analytical skills, including data validation, reconciliation and problem-solving.
Excellent attention to detail and a structured approach to documentation and compliance.
Strong Excel skills and confidence working with payroll data.
The ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders.
It would be beneficial if you have:
A CIPP qualification or equivalent payroll qualification or a foundation-level project management qualification, such as PRINCE2.
Experience supporting payroll system implementations, migrations or transformation projects.
Experience of onboarding activity and payroll impacts.
Experience of process automation, reporting, dashboards or management information.
Experience supporting audit, controls testing or compliance reporting.
Ready to help shape the future of payroll delivery that makes a real difference? Apply today, we'd love to hear from you!
The Company
TPT Retirement Solutions (TPT) is one of the UK’s leading providers of workplace pensions with 80 years’ experience of managing defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes. It has £11.4 billion of assets under management (as at 30 September 2025) and 490,000 members.
TPT’s mission is to make pension schemes perform better for everyone, from the sponsoring employers and trustees to the members who are saving for the future. They are an innovative, forward-thinking organisation, investing in technology to improve the services they provide. TPT are ultimately owned by a pension fund, providing genuine alignment of interests with those of their clients and scheme members.
Benefits
Competitive salary
Performance-related bonus
Pension scheme
Sports and social events
Training and development plan
Flu jabs
