Are you a payroll professional who thrives on accuracy, problem-solving, and making a real impact behind the scenes? We're looking for an experienced Senior Payroll Administrator to join our growing team and play a vital role in delivering high-quality pension payroll services in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. This role centres on end-to-end pension payroll responsibilities, precise data management, cross-team collaboration, and resolution of intricate pension payroll scenarios. You will also assist with coordination and implementation of projects, process improvements, system upgrades and other strategic initiatives. What You'll Be Doing: Managing end-to-end pension payroll processes with accuracy and attention to detail Supporting and resolving complex pension payroll queries and escalations Ensuring compliance with current statutory and legislative requirements (Tax, NI, Maternity Pay, etc.) Producing and contributing to high-quality management reporting Supporting audits and maintaining strict confidentiality standards Identifying opportunities to improve processes and enhance payroll performance Working collaboratively with internal teams and stakeholders What you'll bring: Payroll administration experience. Experience processing pension payroll data at scale. Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage at all levels. Exceptional organisation and time-management skills. Confident problem-solver who thrives under pressure and tight deadlines. Strong payroll systems experience and advanced Excel / Microsoft Office skills. It would be great if you had: CIPP Technician Certificate (or equivalent) If you're interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you! Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent Location: Newport (2 days per week in the office - Tuesday and Wednesday) Security Clearance Level: NPPV2 Internal Recruiter: Katie Salary: Up to £30,000 per annum depending on experience. Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, life assurance and pension. Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Loved reading about this job and want to know more about the sector? We're a leading provider in the UK of re-imagined Business Support Services powered by next generation technology. We combine the full power of Sopra Steria's Insight, Technology and Transformation capabilities to deliver positive, meaningful and long-lasting outcomes for our clients. We're the partner of choice for organisations who are looking to tackle the most complex problems with new solutions. We empower our clients by providing innovative solutions and commercial models that help them meet their business needs, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver impactful value creation. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.