Pensions Administration Consultant
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 3 days ago
The Vacancy
Our Third Party Administration (TPA) department is a dynamic administration team with a varied portfolio of clients. The team plays a key role in delivering a market-leading service to clients and members across Defined Benefit (DB), Defined Contribution (DC) and CARE pension arrangements.
An exciting opportunity is available to join this department as an Administration Consultant within the Data Journey team, based in Birmingham, Edinburgh or Glasgow.
What will the role involve?
The Administration Consultant will lead the delivery of a range of client-focused administration projects, ensuring regulatory requirements and client expectations are fully met. The role involves working closely with internal teams, trustees and insurers, offering exposure to a broad and varied portfolio of project work.
This position includes ownership of projects such as data rectification, risk transfer activity and GMP equalisation implementation, managing delivery from planning through to completion. The role plays a key part in ensuring work is completed accurately, efficiently and within agreed timelines.
Key Responsibilities Include
Client project delivery:
Applications are welcomed from individuals who may not meet all of the criteria but demonstrate the potential to develop the required skills with support. Additional relevant experience or knowledge not listed is also encouraged.
What’s on offer?
In addition to a competitive salary and access to a profit share scheme, the following benefits are available:
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. Find out more about our careers here .
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 out 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.
Our Third Party Administration (TPA) department is a dynamic administration team with a varied portfolio of clients. The team plays a key role in delivering a market-leading service to clients and members across Defined Benefit (DB), Defined Contribution (DC) and CARE pension arrangements.
An exciting opportunity is available to join this department as an Administration Consultant within the Data Journey team, based in Birmingham, Edinburgh or Glasgow.
What will the role involve?
The Administration Consultant will lead the delivery of a range of client-focused administration projects, ensuring regulatory requirements and client expectations are fully met. The role involves working closely with internal teams, trustees and insurers, offering exposure to a broad and varied portfolio of project work.
This position includes ownership of projects such as data rectification, risk transfer activity and GMP equalisation implementation, managing delivery from planning through to completion. The role plays a key part in ensuring work is completed accurately, efficiently and within agreed timelines.
Key Responsibilities Include
Client project delivery:
- Delivering administration projects across a portfolio of clients, including:
- Risk transfer arrangements (data provision, cleansing and transition work)
- GMP projects (reconciliation, rectification and equalisation implementation)
- Data gap analysis, benefit audits and subsequent rectification activity
- Ensuring accuracy, consistency and high standards of quality assurance
- Managing delivery schedules, prioritising work and coordinating resources in collaboration with the Project Management team
- Setting project timelines and tracking progress
- Acting as a key point of contact for a portfolio of clients
- Providing clear updates on project progress to internal stakeholders and at trustee meetings
- Monitoring commercial performance, including drafting fee scopes and overseeing billing
- Delivering high-quality, technically robust pensions administration project work
- Leading on complex or non-standard cases
- Overseeing review processes in line with best practice guidance
- Reporting on project progress, risks and issues
- Identifying and implementing continuous improvements to processes and workflows
- Supporting the development of colleagues through guidance and technical expertise
- Providing people management support where required, encouraging development and progression
- Supporting recruitment and onboarding activities
- Maintaining accurate time recording and achieving chargeability targets
- Undertaking occasional travel to UK offices where required
- Extensive experience in defined benefit pensions administration
- Strong technical understanding of pensions, including benefit calculations and structures
- Knowledge of risk transfer projects and GMP equalisation (desirable)
- Experience leading client work and collaborating with internal teams, actuarial colleagues and external stakeholders
- Up-to-date knowledge of DB pensions legislation and regulatory requirements
- Experience managing projects with a collaborative and consultative approach
- Good understanding of governance principles
Applications are welcomed from individuals who may not meet all of the criteria but demonstrate the potential to develop the required skills with support. Additional relevant experience or knowledge not listed is also encouraged.
What’s on offer?
In addition to a competitive salary and access to a profit share scheme, the following benefits are available:
- A flexible benefits package tailored to individual lifestyle and needs
- A collaborative and supportive working environment where ideas are encouraged
- On-site mental health and wellbeing support
- Ongoing personal and professional development, including mentoring and access to the Aspire learning portal
- Regular social activities, three days of paid volunteering leave each year, and a day’s leave to celebrate a birthday
- Hybrid working, combining remote working with time in modern office environments
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. Find out more about our careers here .
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 out 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.
