Jarvis Pension

Jarvis is a modern auto-enrolment pension provider designed for umbrella companies, agencies, and their contractors. Built as an alternative to traditional providers like Nest and Smart Pension, Jarvis focuses on automation and efficiency for payroll teams managing high-volume, complex pension administration. Unlike some legacy providers, Jarvis is completely free for employers.

The platform automates standard pension processes that typically require manual intervention. Leaver management happens automatically, opt-outs process instantly with immediate refunds, and payment reconciliation eliminates manual checking. A single scheme supports both salary sacrifice and auto-enrolment, reducing the complexity payroll teams face when managing multiple pension arrangements.

For contractors, Jarvis maintains a single lifetime pension account regardless of payroll changes. When contractors leave and rejoin umbrellas under different payroll numbers, they automatically retain their existing account – eliminating duplicate pensions and the need for re-enrolment. The platform offers pension consolidation tools. This approach significantly reduces the support queries that payroll teams handle daily. API integrations with Finity, Octopaye, Merit, and Kintec, alongside compatibility with My Digital, ensure Jarvis works within existing payroll infrastructures.

Migration from existing providers includes ready-to-use communications, documentation templates, and implementation support. The pricing structure removes the 1.8% contribution fees found elsewhere, whilst the investment portfolios consistently deliver competitive returns.

Jarvis serves payroll teams who need reliable, automated pension administration that scales with their business whilst maintaining compliance and reducing operational overhead.

The Challenge Clipper Contracting Group, a contractor payroll and umbrella services provider, struggled with time-consuming pension reconciliations and poor contractor engagement with their pension scheme.

Jarvis Approach Jarvis deployed an automated single-file upload process integrated with Clipper's payroll system, eliminating manual reconciliation loops. Jarvis launched a contractor mobile app for seamless onboarding and transfers, supported by pre-built communications templates. The implementation was completed in under 4-weeks with a structured success plan and quarterly KPI reviews.

Measurable Results Clipper now saves time on weekly pension reconciliations and on-time contribution rates have improved markedly. Within the first 60 days, a substantial percentage of contractors found and transferred old pensions from previous providers, while support queries decreased dramatically through automated processes and clear contractor communications.

Client Testimonial "Jarvis made pension admin seamless for our team. The rollout was clear, fast, and well managed, we've reclaimed time each month with far fewer support tickets."

The contingent workforce powers Britain's economy. Nearly five million professionals choose flexible work, driving innovation across every sector. Yet our industry continues to serve them with infrastructure designed for a world that no longer exists.

At Jarvis, we've chosen a different path. We're the only UK pension provider built exclusively for umbrella companies and the contingent workforce. Not as an afterthought. Not as an adaptation. But as our sole focus and expertise.

The Challenge We're Solving Traditional pension providers view umbrella companies as edge cases—exceptions to accommodate rather than partners to serve. They offer you tools designed for permanent employment, then wonder why compliance becomes your nightmare and workers feel abandoned by the system.

This isn't just inefficient. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of how modern Britain works.

Your workers aren't temporary. They're highly skilled professionals choosing flexibility. They deserve pension infrastructure that respects that choice. You deserve a partner who understands that every delayed auto-enrolment, every manual process, every compliance gap represents not just risk, but a failure to serve the people who keep our economy moving.

Our Philosophy: Own Your Future When we say "Own Your Future," we're making a promise to transform how pensions work in the contingent economy. Ownership means control—for you over compliance, for workers over their savings, for our industry over its destiny.

This isn't about incremental improvement. It's about recognising that umbrella companies aren't a variation of traditional employment—you're the future of work itself.

Partnership, Not Just Provision Our collaboration with SafeRec exemplifies our approach. Together, we're not adapting old compliance frameworks but writing new standards for our sector. We're working with regulators to ensure the rules reflect reality, not history.

When Clipper, Orbital, and dozens of other leading umbrella companies chose Jarvis, they weren't just selecting a pension provider. They were joining a movement to professionalise and elevate our entire industry.

The Future We're Building I envision an industry where offering superior pension benefits becomes your differentiator, not your burden. Where compliance is assumed, not feared. Where workers choose umbrella companies knowing their futures are secure, not scattered across forgotten pots.

This transformation won't come from traditional providers eventually paying attention. It will come from specialists like us, working with leaders like you, refusing to accept that "good enough" is good enough.

The contingent workforce deserves better. You deserve better. Together, we're building it.