Overview
Location: Kingston-upon-Thames
Salary: £24,000-£30,000
Our client is a hugely successful professional services company based in South West London/Surrey with a global reach and presence. They are seeking an experienced Pensions Administrator to join their team and ensure smooth running of the pensions department.
Responsibilities
- Provide effective administrative support to a Trustee team
- Working closely with and assisting the Pension Manager and Assistant Pensions Managers to ensure administration is dealt with in a timely and cost effective manner
- Filing and scanning of post, file opening, closing and arranging offsite storage of files
- Mail merges
- Arranging meeting facilities and assisting with preparation of material needed for those meetings
- Preparation and maintenance of document bibles
- Maintenance of pension scheme member schedules
- Assisting with treasury management activities (e.g. updating pension scheme invoice schedules and preparing in-house payment forms)
- Answering telephones and, where possible, dealing with general enquiries from pension scheme members and professional advisers
- Involvement in ad-hoc projects (e.g. member tracing exercises, bulk DC wind up exercises)
- Good time and performance management
- The position requires a secretarial assistant who is able to use their own initiative, have first class organisational skills and be a good team player. Flexibility, diversity and proactive positivity are key attributes.
Skills and Experience Required
- Financial services / pensions administration experience (minimum 1 year) preferable
- Essential to have excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Essential to be organised and be able to prioritise work
- Ability to work under pressure with little supervision
- Ability to pay close attention to detail
- Excellent IT skills (Microsoft work, Excel, Outlook)
- Telephony experience and/or experience with dealing directly with members of the public