About WPD Group

Who are WPD?

Workplace Pensions Direct (WPD) was founded in 2013 to simplify auto enrolment for small to medium businesses as a result of the Government initiative to help more people save for later life through a pension scheme at work.

In 2018 we introduced WPD Payroll, a fully managed and outsourced payroll solution.

We currently support over 1,500 UK businesses with their payroll and pensions auto enrolment.

What do we do?

WPD provides payroll and pensions support to employers based in the UK and to overseas employers with UK based workers. We offer a full range for services for employers including:

• Automatic enrolment compliance
• Choosing and setting up an employer’s workplace pension from a panel of pension providers, such as:
  • NEST
  • Smart Pension
  • The Peoples Pension
  • Aviva
  • Scottish Widows
  • Aegon
• Pension scheme administration
• Employee pension help desk
• Fully managed payroll for employers with between 5 & 2000 workers, including
  • Acting as your agent with HMRC
  • BACs payment of wages and RTI submission (if required)
  • Wage slips emailed directly to workers or self-service portal
• Proactive tax saving ideas for employers and employees
  • Salary Sacrifice
  • Director’s pensions
  • Lump sum pension payments

Why do we do it?

We are pensions and payroll experts. It’s what we do. With an average of over 20 years’ experience in the industry, our team are unashamedly passionate about all things pensions and payroll – so you don’t have to be!

What are the benefits to our clients?

Demonstrable record of 100% accurate and reliable payroll and pensions processing.

Dedicated Payroll Manager – who will be your point of contact for all questions and queries. This person will be an extension of your business and will represent your business as an internal staff member would.

Compliant – Future proofing your business with 100% HMRC compliance

Cost effective – no hidden fees

Tax guidance – effective ways to reduce company tax liability through director’s pensions, lump sum pension payments and salary sacrifice schemes

Time savings – less time taken by admin team managing payroll requests/queries and processing data

Secure – all your data is securely stored and backed up

Top drawer support – employee and employer support. One central office in Yorkshire. Ask as a question – we’ll answer it or know someone who can!

Hassle free – we take full ownership of your entire payroll cycle, including HMRC and pensions submissions and payments.

Our people – we’re not just data inputters. We know Payroll & Pensions. Our team of qualified professionals will assist you and your business in your day to day payroll activities. We will keep you up to date with changes in legislation and (more recently) calculate and process furlough payments and HMRC requests. At no extra cost.

What are the problems we solve for business advisers?

Most business advisers feel as though they have no option but to deal with their client’s auto-enrolment, or potentially risk losing the client. Few advisers are expert, experienced or insured to advise on every aspect of workplace pension schemes. Fewer still have made the investment in time-saving back office systems.

It’s so much easier to let us help their clients. One less thing to worry about.

What makes us stand out from the crowd?

We’ve proved to be the expert, experienced and insured partner of choice for our extensive network of almost 500 business advisers across the United Kingdom. These advisers are primarily accountants and financial advisers. By providing industrial-strength, scalable solutions, we remove the burden of auto-enrolment administration and pension scheme setup for many business adviser firms. We offer comprehensive, expert and experienced support on every aspect – Payroll and Pensions. From end-to-end, we’ll hand-hold an employer, and their payroll professional, through every step of the pension scheme setup process. Business adviser partners are delighted with our service. Our service is inclusive and affordable for all our business advisers’ clients, whatever the size of firm.

Why it’s important to offer employers a choice of schemes

The law states that it’s the employer’s responsibility to choose a pension scheme that contains the features that are important for their workers. Not all pension schemes are the same; some have more features than others, higher costs or different administration processes. It’s therefore important to consider a range of pension schemes to find the most suitable for your business. The employer would be advised to record the rational for selecting the right pension scheme for audit purposes.

What schemes do we offer?

We have selected a panel of the best schemes that provide good outcomes for employee. Before making a final decision we provide employers with an extensive report outlining the pros and cons of each scheme. Together we can choose a provider that is most suited to each individual business.

WPD Board of directors have a combined experience of more than 70 years in financial services. This experience combines corporate and individual financial planning and advice.