Are you looking to progress your pensions career within a market-leading in-house pensions team? If you have experience in the management of trust-based UK occupational pension schemes; including overseeing governance activities and managing complex and material projects, we would like to hear from you. This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on our UK pension schemes.
As an Assistant Pension Manager / Pension Scheme Secretary in the UK Pensions & Benefits team, you will support our trust-based defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes.
Job Responsibilities:
· Provide trustee secretarial services for one or more schemes, including preparing meeting papers, attending Trustee meetings, preparing minutes, and ensuring actions are progressed and completed.
1. Managing governance related activities and ensuring documentation and procedures are up to date, including; maintaining risk registers, business plans, and policies.
2. Support the Trustee Boards in fulfilling their responsibilities, including providing support to the Pensions Manager in overseeing and coordinating projects as required.
3. Act as a point of contact for advisers regarding ongoing activities, projects, correspondence, and member queries, including formal complaints.
4. Assist in supervising the day-to-day provision of services by external providers, including administrators, actuaries, lawyers, investment consultants, and investment managers.
5. Collaborate with other teams within HR and the Trustee to support employee engagement with their pension and other benefits.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
· Relevant experience with UK defined benefit and/or defined contribution schemes, gained either in an in-house pensions team or consultancy.
6. Experience in providing secretarial and support services to trustee boards, with an understanding of both defined benefit and defined contribution schemes.
7. Strong technical skills and broad knowledge of current UK pensions legislation and best governance practices.
8. Analytical problem solver with the ability to make decisions based on a thorough understanding of relevant facts.
9. Strong team player with excellent organisational skills, capable of managing varied and challenging priorities, taking ownership of projects, and being proactive and flexible.
10. Relationship builder with strong influencing skills, effective communicator comfortable working at senior levels internally and externally.
11. Strong focus on risk management.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
12. APMI qualified or working towards this qualification.