Pensions Administration Team Leader

• Job Title/Location: Pensions Administration Team Leader, London + WFH
• Salary: To £50,000
• Office/WFH: Office based 2 days p/w + 3 days p/w WFH
• Requirements: DB pensions administration, manual calculations & team lead/supervisory experience essential
• Role Snapshot: Overseeing a team of 6-10 administrators that process all aspects of DB and DC membership administration, allocating and checking work for accuracy, ensuring deadlines are met.

Really positive situation surrounding this client, an expanding business - a number of recent new scheme/business wins leading to the creation of new roles and new teams.

The Company: An established pensions business, multiple industry award winners and recognised for their investment in people. This ongoing expansion makes for good development opportunities in terms of learning and progressing within the company.

The Role: The focus on this Pensions Administration Team Leader role is to lead a team that focus on processing, mainly DB and some DC casework, allocating and checking the work produced by others to ensure that the service is considered by clients to be 'First Class’ whilst also making sure deadlines are met. Key responsibilities include:

• Ensure client work is undertaken on time whilst adhering to quality standards.
• Take ownership and accountability, monitoring work allocation to ensure service level is achieved.
• Lead the more complex/project work as required.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of DB & DC administration, including practical experience of benefit calculations, contracting-out and the Pension Freedoms
• Coach, mentor and drive colleague training, development and team performance.
• Participate in recruitment from an interviewer perspective, playing a part in the ongoing selection of future colleagues.
• Work with your team and the business to create a positive working environment.
• Participate in new business exercises, representing the company to external prospects and clients

Skills / Experience Required: For this Pensions Administration Team Leader role you must have solid DB pensions admin and manual calculations experience, with DC experience being advantageous. You should also have previous team leader/supervisory experience in a similar environment.

Additional Information: Salary for the Pensions Administration Team Leader role is to £50,000 + professional study support and company pension. As mentioned above, the average working week would be 2 days office and 3 days WFH. Please apply below.

The Pensions Administration Team Leader role is only one of many vacancies we are handling. ARC is a specialist within Financial Services recruitment and the Consultant handling this role has over 30 years of experience in this field. Areas of focus include administration, compliance, business analysis, customer service, project/programme management, paraplanners, sales support, marketing, underwriters and group risk/employee benefits related roles. Check the website and feel free to call Darren Snell at any time.