Overview
What you'll be doing? Supporting the business and our divisional offices. Our Head Office functions cover all departments from our Executive Board through to our support functions such as Group Design and Technical, HR, Health and Safety, IT, Sales and Marketing, Commercial, Procurement, Group Finance, Corporate Affairs, as well as Legal and Company Secretariat. We also have a specialised function – Barratt Partnerships.
While the work varies from team to team, our key requirements don’t: you must be well organised, extremely helpful and resourceful, and able to use your initiative. You’ll understand that what you do is important, and impacts on your team, the department, and the wider business.
Responsibilities
Reporting to the Benefits Coordinator you will provide administrative support in an accurate and timely manner of company benefits with a specific focus on administering the company’s insurance-based employee benefits such as the Group’s Private Medical provision. This role will also provide key support in the administration of the Company Pension scheme and wider health and wellbeing benefits, ensuring compliance with company policies and statutory requirements whilst delivering a high quality of service to employees and stakeholders.
* Proactively respond to and resolve enquiries both internal and external as appropriate within the Group Pension & Group Private Medical mailbox.
* Administer the end-to-end Pension process from processing new joiner pension applications within payroll critical timeframes through to uploading new member submissions on the company pension providers portal and managing Opt-Outs.
* Maintain accurate employee records of related benefits ensuring all necessary updates for employees Death in Service link to pension are recorded on the HR system (iTrent).
* Process private medical applications/changes/upgrades to cover/leavers to ensure provision of health benefit is accurate.
* Maintain the Vitality employer hub and provide any changes for payroll processing.
* Maintain the employee benefit platform (Zest) to ensure accurate data is recorded against individual employee records.
* Conduct audits across all data sources to ensure each system accurately reflects employee’s individual entitlements and memberships of specific benefits.
* Produce pension auto-enrolment letters as required.
* Ensure Death in Service and Group Income Protection underwriting emails are sent as required and details shared where appropriate with scheme brokers.
* Support the benefits team to ensure approval and payment of invoices for the company’s benefit providers, in accordance with the Prompt Payment Code (PPC) and the Payment Practices and Performance required by law. This includes the raising of purchase orders and allocating invoices.
* Review and maintain employee’s eligibility for the company’s health assessment offering, ensuring employees have access to their annual reviews when eligible and liaising with providers to resolve employee enquiries.
* Administer employee recognition and long service awards for the Group Service Centre on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis.
* Undertake ad hoc projects in line with the Reward and Benefits Strategy as and when required, collaborating with the wider HR team on benefits projects and process improvements.
What You’ll Need
To be successful in the role, we are looking for:
* Highly organised, a strong communicator with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy in data management
* Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion
* Customer focused with a professional and pleasant manner in dealing with internal and external customers
* A strong team player who strives to actively help others
* Proactive and self-motivated with the ability to multi-task and on occasions, work at speed, to deliver in specified timeframes
* Highly proficient in Excel due to the level of data interpretation and manipulation required
* Experience or knowledge of insurance-based benefits and/or administration of auto-enrollment and company pension schemes would be advantageous although not essential
Benefits
Our Company and Benefits: We’ve been nationally recognised as a 5 star housebuilder since 2010 for supplying high-quality homes for all generations. Barratt adopts a hybrid way of working which assumes that where roles allow, our office-based colleagues divide their time between working in the office, on our construction sites and sales offices, and working from home, as the role dictates. We recognise the many benefits that an effective hybrid working culture brings to both the Company and our colleagues. We offer:
* Competitive Salary
* Competitive Bonus Scheme
* Private Medical Cover - Single Cover
* Annual Medical Health Assessment
* 26 days’ holiday (increase by 1 day for every 3 years’ continuous service up to 29 days)
* Choice of Flexible Benefits
* Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
Our Benefits Are Fit To Measure: Today’s housebuilding professional need tomorrow’s benefits, so they’re ready for whatever the future brings. When you join Barratt, you get the kind of support you would expect from a business built for a modern working world. Private medical cover, Pension, Annual Health Assessment, Financial Benefits, Lifestyle Benefits, and more are available to support your health, finances, and lifestyle.
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