Are you looking to progress your pensions career within a market-leading in-house pensions team? If you have experience in managing trust-based UK occupational pension schemes, including overseeing governance activities and managing complex 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:
1. Provide trustee secretarial services for one or more schemes, including preparing meeting papers, attending Trustee meetings, preparing minutes, and ensuring actions are completed.
2. Manage governance activities, ensuring documentation and procedures are current, including maintaining risk registers, business plans, and policies.
3. Support Trustee Boards in fulfilling their responsibilities, including assisting the Pensions Manager with overseeing and coordinating projects.
4. Act as a point of contact for advisers regarding ongoing activities, projects, correspondence, and member queries, including formal complaints.
5. Supervise the provision of services by external providers, such as administrators, actuaries, lawyers, investment consultants, and managers.
6. Collaborate with HR and Trustee teams to support employee engagement with pensions and benefits.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
* Experience with UK defined benefit and/or defined contribution schemes, gained in-house or in consultancy.
* Experience providing secretarial and support services to trustee boards, with knowledge of both scheme types.
* Strong technical knowledge of UK pensions legislation and governance best practices.
* Analytical problem-solving skills with decision-making ability based on relevant facts.
* Excellent organizational skills, proactive, flexible, and capable of managing multiple priorities.
* Effective communicator with strong influencing skills, comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders.
* Focus on risk management.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
* APMI qualification or working towards it.
About the Team
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to corporations, governments, individuals, and investors. We prioritize building trusted, long-term partnerships to help clients achieve their objectives.
We value diversity and inclusion, and are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on protected attributes and provide reasonable accommodations for religious practices, mental health, or disability needs. For more information, visit our FAQs.
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