Pensions Administration - Process Implementer

Wishlist* has been instructed on a newly created position working with a successful and expanding financial services organisation. The company offers an excellent support structure as well as a competitive benefits package. The team consists of talented and positive individuals with a firm belief in consistent improvement.

For this role our client is looking for someone with a depth of current legislative pensions knowledge who will pro-actively highlight issues impacting on the performance of the system and who will provide ideas and solutions to improve upon these. 

This person will be seen as the in house expert; taking responsibility for the quality of individual and teamwork produced within the Pensions Administrations team and acting as a support coach and mentor to other members of the team. 

You should be able to show that you can offer value to the role as well as the potential to develop within the company. 

The role

Responsibilities will include the following:

• Providing data required for processing monthly pension payroll.
• Ensuring that technical knowledge is kept up to date and relevant to the role to ensure the pension payroll is correct and compliant with current legislation.
• Understanding, analysing and seeking to avoid errors and omissions; learning from these by amending and implementing new processes. Passing this information onto the team thus raising awareness and avoiding future issues.
• Writing and updating scheme specific procedure manuals, rules and documentation in line with any changes.
• Continually identifying and realising opportunities for improvement in the underlying system and processes to offer high quality pension payroll administration.

Candidate Specification

• You should have a solid understanding of pensions and related legislation and regulations.
• You will be proactive in your approach with the foresight to predict how imminent regulatory changes and amendments to pension rules will impact on processes and procedures, thus making the necessary changes to adapt accordingly.
• You will ideally have previous experience of running either defined contribution or defined benefit schemes.

Interviews will take place in February 2012.