Senior Pensions Project Administrator

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The Vacancy

Our Third Party Administration (TPA) department is a dynamic administration team with a varied portfolio of clients. They play a key part in providing our clients and members with a market-leading service on Defined Benefits (DB), Defined Contribution (DC) and CARE pension arrangements. We currently have an exciting opportunity to join this department as a Senior Pensions Project Administrator, within our Data Journey team in our Edinburgh or Glasgow Office. The Data Journey Team lead on the delivery of pensions administration services and projects to our defined benefit and defined contribution clients.

What will your role look like?

You will play a significant role in the delivery of project work related to member tracing, marital status checks, backfile reviews, data cleansing, checking of dashboards and mail merge activities. You will also collaborate with other teams who we partner with to deliver work for our clients such as the risk transfer team, payroll and administration teams.

Though this is a varied role, your key tasks will include:

• Under guidance from a more senior colleague, undertakes data analysis and projects in a timely and accurate manner.
• Assists with the production of reports, as and when required.
• Works closely with all teams to ensure work progresses seamlessly to completion.
• Running of data extracts and analysis of the data, calculations and letters/reports for review by team members.
• Ensures office procedures are followed, including keeping full notes of all telephone conversations and being aware of compliance requirements.
• Carries out other tasks and ad-hoc projects as required.
• Responds to emails within delegated level of authority.
• Undertakes ad-hoc associated general administration duties, including mailing exercises and helpline duties.
• Supports other team members across all 4 offices as and when required.

To enjoy and succeed in this role, you will have:

• Minimum GCSE / Scottish standard (or equivalent) Maths and English, or equivalent.
• Experience in an administrative or similar environment.
• Experience of DB pensions and previous project experience.
• Experience of collecting and inputting data/information.
• Good analytical skills.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Able to communicate clearly and concisely both orally and in writing.
• Familiarity with Microsoft applications – Word, Outlook and strong Excel knowledge including experience of VLookup and pivot tables.

In addition to a competitive salary and access to our profit share scheme, we offer:

• A flexible selection of employee benefits, so you can choose a package that best matches your lifestyle and needs.
• A collaborative and encouraging work environment where your thinking and ideas are encouraged.
• On-site mental health and wellbeing assistance.
• A commitment to helping you develop both personally and professionally, with mentoring opportunities and access to our award-winning learning portal, Aspire.
• Regular social activities, in addition to three days paid volunteering leave each year and a day’s leave to celebrate your birthday.
• Hybrid working so you can enjoy the positive wellbeing of working from home as well as the benefits of meeting colleagues in our sociable, modern office environments – with the expectation of two ‘in-office’ days per week.
• A flexible working window, allowing colleagues the freedom to work flexibly between the hours of 7am and 7pm.

About Us

Together, we’ve been building better futures for over 100 years. For our people, our clients and their people, our communities and the environment. We thrive on tackling complex problems. And we believe those problems are best solved by diverse teams – diverse in skills, approaches and backgrounds. Our independence lets our people be themselves and think freely, while working in a collaborative, supportive environment. We love innovative, independent thinking and want everyone to share their ideas.

Working alongside employers, trustees and financial services institutions, we offer pensions, investments, benefits and risk consulting services, as well as data and technology solutions. With over 1000 employees and counting, we’re one of the leading consultancies in our field and are proud to be recognised by numerous industry awards.

We’re committed to developing our people and encourage everyone to carve out their own career path. We’ve many colleagues who started out in one team in the business and have ended up somewhere completely different, having had the chance to develop new skills and explore new passions.

We are continually working to improve our inclusive culture and employ diverse talent. We therefore welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, which includes but isn’t limited to: age, disability, ethnic heritage, gender, marital or civil partnership status, neurodiversity, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background.

Our hybrid working model offers the best of both worlds – home working as well as a fun, collaborative office environment - meaning flexible working patterns to accommodate individual needs.

If you need any assistance in relation to a personal requirement, medical condition or neurological difference during our selection process then please let us know. Together, we can make this the best job you’ll ever have.

We Offer

Our culture: We live and breathe our four values – friendly, confident, partnering and straightforward – and genuinely care about our people, clients, community and the environment.

Job satisfaction: Every employee can genuinely make a difference and contribute towards achieving our purpose – together, building better futures. Whether that’s helping our clients build more secure financial futures, using your 3 days volunteering or helping us reduce our carbon footprint.

Reward and wellbeing: We offer competitive salaries, a share of company profits and an award-winning benefits package. We also take your mental, physical, social and financial wellbeing seriously, both in and outside of work.

Flexible working: We trust our people to work in a pattern that suits their circumstances with a healthy balance of home and office working.

Latest technology: We use the most up-to-date technology and software to match our ground-breaking business solutions that make life easier for us and our clients.

Career development: There is no linear path – learning opportunities are plentiful and empower you to carve out your own career.