Senior Pension Advisor/Admin

Temporary Senior Pension Advisor/Admin

Job Ref: N Yorkshire BL TCL 364460

Pay Rate: £19.35 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 37 Monday – Thursday 8am to 5pm and Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm

Role Length: This opening assignment is for 4-6 months

City: Northallerton

Hybrid working

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Reporting to the Payroll and Pensions Manager and working with Payroll colleagues, the successful candidate will ensure that all relevant elements of the Pension Administration for NYFRS are understood and successfully delivered in accordance with the identified key performance indicators. You will contribute to the improvement of service delivery and review all key procedures and standards to ensure they are updated and communicated as required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure the efficient and effective management and administration of the pension schemes for NYFRS.
• Assist the Scheme Manager with running Firefighter Pension Schemes and act as service contact for external bodies regarding pension matters.
• Attend meetings and provide specialist information and updates to NYFRS as required.
• Manage the Pensions Administration and Payroll contract including performance management.
• Provide guidance to managers and employees in relation to pension and retirement processes.
• Liaise with Finance and Payroll on pension related matters and act as the main point of contact with pension administrators and as an authorised signatory, attending meetings as required.
• In conjunction with Payroll and LGPS/FPS administrators to undertake research and project work on key issues or specific initiatives as required.
• Provide all necessary documentation to the pension administrators in accordance with contractual arrangements.
• Provide briefings to managers on the impact of pension changes, risk assessment and IDRP complex pension related matters.
• Liaise with pension administrators to provide updates for publication on NYFRS intranet in relation to key pension matters e.g., legislative changes.
• Provide guidance to Payroll to ensure accurate monthly administrative processes for employees opting in and out of the Authority’s Pension Schemes are in accordance with Scheme and/or auto-enrolment regulations.
• In conjunction with Finance, Payroll and Firefighter Scheme administrators, provide information for periodic Home Office and Government Actuary Department returns, disclosures, forecasts, and valuations exercises.
• Provide support to payroll in dealing with situations that impact pensionable pay i.e., Industrial Action.

Qualifications:

• Hold or be willing to work towards a CIPP (Certificate in Pensions Administration).

Skills & Experience:

• Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
• Demonstrable experience of providing high quality, customer orientated Pension advisory services to agreed SLAs and KPIs, ideally in either Local Government, the Police or Fire service.
• Good professional knowledge, particularly in pensions legislation and be naturally inquisitive about emerging legislation and case law.
• Able to work with financial data and undertake complex financial calculations, as well as analysing data to identify trends and challenges and develop pragmatic solutions which mitigate risk.
• Excellent customer service, problem solving and interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively communicate with a broad range of diverse and demanding customers across a variety of platforms.
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).