Senior Pensions Administrator

**About the role** Balfour Beatty are currently looking for a Senior Pensions Administrator to join our Enabling Functions team based in Prescot

Within this role you'll ensure the delivery of Pension Administration services to various customers of the Balfour Beatty Pensions Centre including DB and DC members of the Balfour Beatty Pension Fund (the Fund) and related parties.

**What you'll be doing** As a Senior Pensions Administrator you will have the following accountabilities:

- Calculate, check and review calculations and workflows across a wide range of DB Sections of the Fund and various case types including deaths, retirements and transfers out
- Work closely with pensions administrators and your peers to ensure adherence to SLAs
- Work on calendar events, project and process improvement work, as
required
- Support the team leaders and managers, agreeing priorities and resource use across of the teams
- Provide support and guidance to pensions administrators and management on a daily basis
- Respond to queries raised by CRM (Client Relationship Management) and agree any associated resolutions
- Work with the Team Leaders to identify and monitor training and development requirements
- Electronic document management of filing and correspondence
- Help to identify procedural and process efficiency improvements
- Develop an understanding of DC processes dealing with DC queries and liaising with the Funds DC Administration provider, as required
- Develop a detailed working knowledge and awareness of scheme rules and pension legislation enabling complex calculations to be undertaken and checked
- Develop a detailed working knowledge and awareness of the pensions
database and how this functions

**Who we're looking for** You will have the following:

- Relevant Pensions qualification such as Diploma in Pensions Administration, PMI qualification or equivalent would be desirable but not essential.
- Proven pensions experience
- Experience of day-to-day pension administration of DB pension schemes is essential
- Good awareness of pensions legislative issues
- Ability to calculate pensions and interpret scheme rules
- A strong background in Microsoft Office software, particularly Excel and Word.
- Good organisation skills and an attention to detail
- An ability to manage a busy workload and deliver high quality to deadlines
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), with ability to express complicated ideas in a concise and clear way
- Strong customer focus
- Self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously and as a team player
- Consistent and positive role model who has a positive impact on the team and working environment

**Why work for us** Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

**About us** Balfour Beattys Enabling Functions includes our centralised HR, IT, Procurement, Finance, Health & Safety, Sustainability and Comms teams. Together we support Balfour Beatty to deliver projects on behalf of our clients. We operate according to our Buildto Last values of Lean, Expert, Trusted, Safe and Sustainable.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensurewe deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full online

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interviewif they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

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