This is a broad and rare opportunity to support our talented in-house Pensions team - offering ongoing personalised training, professional development and genuine career progression.
You’ll be able to take part in interesting project work as well as business-as-usual pensions governance and administration, supporting specialisms such as trustee secretariat, communications, member engagement and corporate operations.
Warwickshire, 2 days in the office per week
Key responsibilities:
You’ll provide support to our small inhouse Pensions team, by:
* Managing and directing central mailbox pensions enquiries.
* Co-ordinate production and publish Trustee Board packs; support drafting of Trustee minutes and ensure actions are followed up on.
* Support ad-hoc Trustee and Corporate pensions projects.
* Operational governance including updating risk register, annual business plan, conflicts policy, member-nominated trustee elections.
* Support with the implementation of the trustee’s investment strategy and ESG principles supporting management of relationships with the Trustee’s key investment managers.
* Monitor performance against objectives, for key trustee and corporate suppliers.
* Support, project manage and provide information as part of corporate year end accounting processes.
* Support with pensions elements of regulatory submissions to Ofgem
* Provide timely, customer focused service to members (DB & DC). Collation and preparation of risk renewal data (life assurance and group income protection).
* Death in service claims.
* Raising engagement and employee knowledge regarding company pension schemes, including attendance at roadshows and people clinics, maintaining online portals and websites and preparing targeted communications.
* Work with the third-party administrator to prepare packs for Trustee discretion decisions and provide response to members where appropriate. Manage the ill-health process and coordinate with the occupational health consultant and Trustee.
* Manage procurement processes raising Purchase Orders, managing payment of invoices, updating budget spend for Trustee and Corporate work.
* Organise and co-ordinate calendars for internal colleagues, trustee directors and external suppliers.
About you:
* You have proven experience in pensions governance or administration.
* A Pensions Management Institute (PMI) Pathways qualification (or working towards one) would be highly regarded, though not essential. We can support you financially with this if you're looking to start a pension qualification or have an annual subscription to pay.
* You’ve got a good understanding of Defined Benefit (DB) and Defined Contribution (DC) pensions; knowledge of ill-health retirement and dispute resolution policies, and an understanding of auto-enrolment and re-enrolment requirements.
Please quote reference 99989