Senior Pensions Administrator

We are hiring for a Senior Pensions Administrator who would be based in one of our offices in Leeds, Welwyn or Redhill. As a Senior Pensions Administrator, you will be making a difference within our leading pension administration business. You will work within a team to provide a high quality service to our impressive portfolio of clients that include prestigious and market leading global companies. In the role, you will take on advanced calculations and administration of complex schemes (DB and/or DC) and play an active role in mentoring and checking the work of junior team colleagues.

You will work on a variety of different clients with pension arrangements ranging from straightforward to complex, with populations covering hundreds of members to hundreds of thousands. This gives you the opportunity to work within one organisation on clients that offer exposure to every aspect of pensions administration, utilising bulk processing routines, automated calculations or your manual calculation skills, and the potential for involvement with a huge variety of different projects, often at the forefront of the industry.

Enjoy a benefits package designed to help you thrive, both professionally and personally. You\’ll receive 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day to relax and recharge. Our comprehensive health and wellbeing offering includes private healthcare, life insurance, group income protection, and regular health assessments, all giving you peace of mind. Secure your future with our defined contribution pension scheme, featuring matched contributions up to 10% from the company.

We support your growth and balance with hybrid working options, access to an employee assistance programme, and a fully paid volunteer day to make a difference in your community. On top of these, you can opt into a variety of additional perks including an electric vehicle car scheme, share scheme, cycle‑to‑work programme, dental and optical cover, critical illness protection, and much more. Start making the most of your career and wellbeing with a range of benefits tailored for you.

Responsibilities

• Accurately processes and manages complex pensions calculations and queries across a variety of different pension processes and case types such as Retirements, Transfers, Deaths, ensuring cases and processes are completed to a high standard with accurate and well‑worded correspondence in a timely manner.
• Checks and monitors work completed by junior colleagues, providing feedback and guidance to ensure work is right the first time and meets output targets across the team.
• Acts as a point of escalation for the team for technical issues, non‑standard cases, and member complaints.
• Utilises previous knowledge and experience in pension legislation/regulations as well as WTW guidance and procedures to ensure day‑to‑day work is of a high quality.
• Supports the Team Leader in ensuring that all service level agreements and performance standards are achieved on a day‑to‑day basis and takes responsibility for coordinating team workload and some management or client responsibilities delegated by the Team Leader.
• Coaches, supports, and mentors junior colleagues providing feedback and supporting the wider development and knowledge of the team.
• Continuously seeks to identify areas where the service to clients/members could be improved and takes forward process improvements as required.
• Assists in complex and project‑based work as and when required.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Previous experience working in an occupational pension administration team (DB and/or DC experience essential) carrying out administration processes, including but not limited to Retirements, Transfers and Deaths.
• Experience and knowledge of Pensions Legislation and Regulations and applying these within an administration team in response to changes or new legislation.
• Experience and knowledge of the DB manual calculations required for a variety of administration processes.
• High level attention to detail and skilled in following and applying procedural documentation and checking the work of other colleagues.
• Ability to carry out and manage high volumes of work while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
• Excellent organisational and time‑management skills, managing own workload, wider teamwork load and multiple client member queries concurrently, while maintaining a high‑quality service.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to include good written and verbal communication and use of Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Experience of coaching and supporting less experienced colleagues.
• Experience of working in a hybrid/multi‑site team would be an advantage.

At WTW, we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome, valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity.

We’re committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email candidate.helpdesk@willistowerswatson.com.

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