Senior Pensions Administrator

Senior Pensions Administrator – Dalriada Trustees Limited

About Us

The industry in which we operate offers a dynamic and challenging environment and our excellent reputation is contributing to the growth of our business from an expanding portfolio of clients. We have aspirations to extend that client base, and deliver truly integrated solutions, through the use of our highly innovative software platform, Mantle, across our work.

Dalriada Together is part of Dalriada Trustees Limited (Dalriada) a leading independent trustee. Within the Together model we work closely with our colleagues within the Together team. The Team consists of Trustees, administrators, client managers and actuaries. As such, joining us as a Pensions Administrator will open up opportunities for you to use your experience to add value across the group and to get involved in a way of working that is collaborative and leads to fast decisions.

Our unique award‑winning approach to the provision of services has resulted in rapid growth over the last few across seven offices in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, London and Manchester.

We do not pigeonhole colleagues and aim to provide challenging and interesting work which will allow our staff to build rewarding careers.

About You

We are hiring a Senior Pensions Administrator who wants the opportunity to carve out aDrivers. The successful candidate will have proven experience as a Senior Administrator and leading/supporting other colleagues. In addition, being able to work as part of an integrated Trustee team, supporting all aspects of the services covered under the Dalriada Together proposition. We are looking for candidates who are ambitious and enjoy working with people and who is looking for a role that can offer opportunities to be involved in the wider aspects of Trustee services.

You will be well organised and proactive, calm under pressure and can now communicate effectively.

You will enjoy working in a challenging environment in which you.we can develop both personally and professionally. You will be a conscientious individual with exceptional attention to detail, with a passion for delivering a quality product to our clients. You will have the ability to build strong relationships internally and externally and work to demanding deadlines and targets.

Responsibilities & Criteria

As a Senior Pensions Administrator you will manage and maintain the administration aspects of defined benefit schemes on behalf of the trustee. Acting as point of contact for scheme members, working closely within and contributing to the trustee team and other third party suppliers appointed to a Scheme.

An important part of the role is ensuring proactive project management of tasks being undertaken on a scheme and that they are completed within agreed service levels. As part of this the candidate will need to provideoccupied project management oversight and mentor and peer review work being undertaken by other more juniorvelle. Our team carry out all types of exercises from winding up schemes and calculating members’ pension benefits to carrying out forensic research for schemes, while providing an excellent service to the members of our schemes.

This variation makes Together an exciting opportunity.

• Broad pension's technical knowledge, with at least eight years' experience working in a Defined Benefit pension administration environment and with a detailed understanding of defined benefit pensions schemes and UK pensions legislation, regulation and codes of practice
• Knowledge of systems e.g. Microsoft Office/ Windows applications.
• Experience in managing ad‑hoc and annual pension projects
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral with the ability to articulate and communicate current and relevant issues to scheme members, pension trustees and other third parties.
• Experience of working pro‑actively and using own initiative to complete tasks.
• The ability to perform in a fast‑moving environment providing excellent service to clients and third parties with a desire to succeed at…