Senior Data and Pension Projects Specialist
Certain Advantage is hiring for a Senior Data & Pensions Projects Specialist based in London.
This role is on an initial 2-year contract basis and is hybrid, with a requirement to be onsite 3 days per week.
The Role
This role is for a dynamic Senior Data & Pensions Projects Specialist—someone ambitious and ready to make an impact. You'll play a key role in delivering complex pension projects, managing critical stakeholder relationships, and ensuring the integrity of pension administration data across multiple schemes.
You will be responsible for:
- Supporting the oversight and strategic development of the pension administration system (Compendia).
- Managing relationships with third-party system providers, and Information Risk Management teams.
- Delivering pension system enhancements, upgrades, and business-critical projects.
- Producing and validating data extracts for actuarial valuations, benefit statements, and regulatory requirements.
- Ensuring compliance with pension legislation and reportable event requirements.
- Leading cross-functional projects including pension dashboard delivery and system transformation initiatives.
- Providing coaching, support, and pension-specific training to colleagues across the wider Data, Projects and Systems team.
- Driving continuous improvement and maintaining high standards of data quality and governance.
The Individual
- Extensive pensions operations experience within an in-house or third-party administration environment.
- Strong knowledge of UK defined benefit pension schemes.
- Deep understanding of UK pensions legislation and regulatory requirements.
- Experience working with pension administration systems, ideally Compendia.
- Proven experience handling large volumes of sensitive pensions data.
- Pension qualifications such as PMI, CPC, or equivalent.
- Strong stakeholder management and supplier relationship skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- The ability to balance detailed technical work with broader strategic objectives.
- Leadership, coaching, and influencing skills.
- A proactive, self-starting approach and strong team ethic.
- Occasional travel to Krakow will be required (typically once per year).
