Pensions Specialist

Pensions Specialist
Lincoln/Hybrid
£23.03 per hour
Monday-Friday 8.30 am – 4.30 pm
Contract: 02/09/2024 – 31/01/2025

The successful candidate will work closely with Payroll, HR administrators, and the Pensions Manager to provide a comprehensive pension service to all employees of a large organisation. The offices are based in Lincoln, but we will consider hybrid/remote work for the right candidate.

Duties include:

• Acting as a Pensions Expert to the Management Team and providing support and assistance to all team members
• To provide timely provision of all estimates, pensionable pay, additional year, contribution levels, effects of planned changes. Application processes, opting in and out of the scheme, leaving the scheme and regulations.
• To provide appropriate responses to high-level complex queries via telephone, written and email
• To co-ordinate the Auto re-enrolment process, ensuring accurate and timely management, and statutory compliance
• Acting as a local resource for expert/specialist knowledge of all aspects of pensions
• Maintaining accurate records and preparing written communications to obtain information and in response to queries
• Processing all pensions data including variable deductions and payments, new starters and leavers including retirement, and the maintenance of complex pensions-related data and information
• Processing pension data to meet monthly and yearly deadlines
• Processing pensions forms including opt in and outs, AVC and APC requests
• Attending meetings with pension scheme representatives
• Keep up to date with all changes to pensions schemes and regulations
• Ensure that documentation is maintained in respect of all employees

• Recognised Pension qualification, or NVQ Level 4 diploma or equivalent level of experience
• Extensive experience and knowledge of Local Government / Teachers / Fire Pension Scheme rules and regulations
• Significant experience of pensions in the use of computerised payroll/pension systems
• Detailed expert knowledge of pensions and benefits along with stakeholder and AVC pensions schemes
• Excellent communication skills; able to communicate highly complex and sensitive pay and pension information to all levels of staff
• Be able to plan and manage workload effectively as priorities frequently change
• Self-motivated, proactive and highly accurate
• Highly developed analytical skills