Payroll and Pension Administration Services for Multi-School Catholic Trust

St Thomas Catholic Academies Trust is seeking a payroll and pension administration service provider to manage payroll operations across their growing network of schools. The Trust currently operates 17 schools with plans to expand to 20 schools plus a central team. The provider must handle complex pension administration across multiple local authority schemes, support decentralized workforce management where individual schools manage their own data with central Trust oversight, and deliver accessible, interrogable workforce reporting. Key requirements include flexibility to accommodate varying pension schemes, system interoperability with school management information systems (MIS) and financial software, and capacity to scale as the Trust expands. The Trust seeks to address current frustrations with data accessibility and system integration by selecting a provider who understands the nuanced differences in their operating structure and can deliver both consistency and flexibility across all schools.