About the Role
and our Ideal Candidate
About the role
We are seeking an exceptional candidate to develop our Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) data and systems. Their duties will include:
1. Maintain, update and develop our pensions administration software.
2. Provide general pensions administration duties, including the processing of bulk starters/leavers/changes and fixing data errors.
3. Running and distributing reports from the UPM pensions system to relevant parties (ad-hoc, weekly, monthly… etc.)
4. Testing and delivering software updates/upgrades alongside our software supplier
5. Preparing data extracts and statistics, processing bulk returns (annual returns, etc)
6. Helping to deliver annual projects (Year end returns, CARE Revaluation, producing annual benefit statements, etc)
7. Data investigation and error resolution.
About you
You will have a minimum of 1 years’ experience administering the Local Government Pension Scheme (or equivalent Defined Benefit Pension Scheme) and relevant legislation/regulations.
8. You will have experience maintaining a pensions administration system (Civica UPM or equivalent).
9. You should be able to demonstrate meticulous attention to detail and the ability to spot inconsistencies and errors in numerical information.
10. You should also be able to evidence your ability to prioritise your workload and work to deadlines
11. You should be someone who can thrive by working independently and as part of a collaborative team.
12. Experience of SQL (Structured Query language) to interrogate the database would be an advantage, but not essential.
About Us
The shared pensions administration service for Sutton Council and Kingston Council was formed on 1 April to provide the administration of LGPS for both Funds. Combined, the Funds have a total membership of circa 30, and in excess of scheme employers. There is a combined team of 23 staff (24 including this post).
The Data & Systems sub team's (7 members) focus is on maintaining the UPM pensions system, resolving issues and errors, doing data extracts from the database, testing system upgrades and resolving web portal registration queries.
Our Offer To You
As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.
Employees have access to a wide range of benefits to enable staff to achieve a work life balance, some of which include:
13. A generous annual leave entitlement of 26-32 days plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply) depending on service and grade
14. Enhanced Maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependents leave
15. Two volunteering days per year
16. Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme (dependent on the role)
17. Adjustable and agile working arrangements using Google Chromebooks
18. Learning and development portal offering a range of courses
19. Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres
20. Interest free season ticket loans
21. Local Government Pension Scheme
22. Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
23. Electric vehicle leasing scheme
24. Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support