Job Description

Senior Pensions Technician

We are looking for a Senior Pensions Technician to join the Consulting division of Capita Pension Solutions. We are a new force in the market and our fantastic team are aspiring to create better outcomes and bright futures by putting people and pensions at the heart of everything we do. The Consulting division was created to better enable us to fulfil the long-term strategic objectives of our business and to empower us to better excite our clients and provide them, and their members, with better outcomes. We are continuously looking to improve the services and products we provide to our clients, with a focus on people and the use of technology to achieve this goal. This positions us, and you, to be at the forefront of a rapidly growing and advancing organisation and industry.

The team you will be joining work on a variety of pensions projects, this includes the development, update and authorisation of scheme records and events and providing a continually improving level of customer service in terms of quality, cost and time.

As well as engaging on projects to understand them fully and identify efficiency opportunities you will also bring technical experience to the team and take the lead on key activities and projects. A key part of the role will be learning and understanding processes to identify where improvements can be made.

Key Responsibilities:

• To work individually and with the team to deliver requirements for projects (time scales, deliverables, quality, sign off)
• To be responsible for the accuracy, delivery and quality of projects
• Ownership of the full project life cycle

Key Tasks:

• To lead on the delivery of assigned projects.
• To promote the provision of a first-class experience for customers and to share knowledge and expertise with other team members.
• Completing and documenting an analysis of existing scheme design and system builds to provide recommendations for improvements and define and design the solution.
• Working with relevant stakeholders both internally and externally to deliver the agreed solution, including:
• Running and specifying data extracts from the administration system including bespoke reports.
• Preparing and distributing communications
• Transforming extracted data or data received into the required format and structure
• Performing and specifying data uploads to the administration system
• Building, enhancing and validating Proforma templates and specifying development of system automation

• Testing bulk communications and calculations
• Perform bulk calculations in Excel

What Were Looking For:

Essential:

• DB pensions experience
• Technical pensions calculations/analysis
• Bulk data analysis/manipulation
• Excel - Demonstrate the ability to:
• Use filters, sorting, pivot tables (rows, columns, grouping, filters and totalling).
• Use formulas including lookups, IF and nested IF statements, date calculations and formatting of cells to specific guidelines.
• Import data/text files and use data validation
• Project Management skills

Desirable:

• GMP equalisation experience
• PMI Qualification

About Capita Pension Solutions

At Capita Pension Solutions (CPS) we continue to grow and evolve our Strategy & Product function. We are at another exciting point in that evolution, defining and executing CPS's strategic goals as well as developing the next generation of market leading Products and Services. We have ambitious objectives and plans for 2025 and beyond.

Whats In It For You?

• 23 days' holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks' fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeksand plenty more
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

What We Hope Youll Do Next:

Choose 'Apply now' to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

As part of our commitment to building an inclusive and diverse workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from people who are from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds.

Were an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, which means we recruit and develop people based on their merit and passion. Were committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone.

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