Payroll & Pensions Specialist; FTC

Job Title: Payroll Benefits & Pensions Specialist

Location: London/Hybrid (Typically 2/3 days in the office)

Type: Full time-Fixed Term (If you are a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please do still get in touch)

At Ardonagh Specialty, we provide much more than just a workplace. We are dedicated to fostering skill development and knowledge within a team that is passionate about their work, values their Employees, and truly celebrates diversity.

Working at Ardonagh Specialty means you’ll be part of The Ardonagh Group. We are proud of our innovative environment offering many opportunities for growth across the wider group. Employees regularly move between our united teams, and we encourage you to make your role your own.

Our offices are lively and exciting places to be, but we understand that life needs flexibility, and offer a genuinely flexible approach to working. If you are looking to join a thriving, energetic business with exciting plans, this role could be an ideal fit for you.

We offer much more than just an inclusive culture with apprenticeships, study support, participation in our annual Spotlight Awards, Community Trust, Sports Teams, office socials, events and so much more. All of this with a supportive management team as well as working alongside some of the industry’s top talent.

• Employer pension contribution of 10% (providing you, the Employee provides 5%).
• Good work life balance - flexibility to suit you.
• Competitive salary.
• Life Assurance at X4 of your base salary.
• Group Income Protection.
• Generous Annual Leave entitlement.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Group annual bonus scheme.

This role reports into the Specialty HR Operations Manager with a dotted line into the Group Payroll Team Leader and will work closely with the Group HR and Specialty Operations Team to provide an efficient and compliant Benefits & Pension Administration for the Specialty group.

Providing excellent customer service to managers and employees, including:

• Responsibility for all benefits & pension administration.
• Reconcile and administer the daily and weekly data reports to support the delivery of the company’s flexible benefits platform and pension necessities.
• Administer employee pension schemes, including auto enrolment, contributions, and reconciliations with various pension providers.
• Ensure compliance with UK payroll regulations, tax laws, and pension auto-enrolment requirements.
• Strive to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
• Proactively manage and facilitate employee pension & benefit queries.
• Support year-end payroll processes, including the production of annual P11D forms and Company Car administration.
• Help drive and support various Pension & Benefit projects within the Payroll team.
• Collaborate with the Group Reward, Compliance and the Internal Audit team to ensure accurate benefits administration and governance.
• Support M&A activity and be able to manage multiple payrolls at one time.
• Work alongside the outsourced benefit provider (Benefex) and other benefit providers to ensure best practice in all related activity, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Ardonagh Specialty is made up of 6 different UK payrolls with a current employee headcount of 1500.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• The ability to work unsupervised and to tight deadlines.
• Demonstrate problem solving capabilities.
• MS Office/Excel.

• Flexible Benefits platform experience (Benefex).
• Previous experience of using Dayforce.
• Payroll admin experience relating to either pensions or employee benefits.
• Working with multiple payrolls in a fast‑paced environment with vigorous M&A activity.
• Experience of working in the Insurance industry is a plus but not essential.

• Min 3-5 years of experience working within Payroll, Pensions & Benefits Administration.
• High degree of integrity, confidentiality, cultural awareness, empathy, fairness and good judgement.
• Able to deal with ambiguity.
• Ability to effectively…