Pension Scheme Management Consultant
2 weeks ago
**About Us**:
Hymans Robertson LLP is one of the UK’s leading actuarial and employee benefit consultancies, employing over 1000 staff in four UK offices in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Birmingham. The firm operates as an independent partnership and prides itself on an innovative, client focussed approach. We provide independent pensions, investment and life consultancy services, as well as data and technology solutions. Our clients include some of the UK’s leading names and largest pension schemes, while our continued growth and success has been recognised by numerous industry awards.
We believe everyone has a right to a better future. We make sure it’s not left down to chance.
**Role Description**:
**Core tasks will include**:
- Co-ordinating a significant number of main board and subcommittee meetings, ensuring accurate minutes are taken
- Inputting into the agendas for meetings
- Action management between meetings and liaison with both Trustees and other key scheme stakeholders such as advisers like the Scheme Actuary and investment adviser
- Dealing with Trustee discretion cases and overseeing budget and invoice monitoring
- Overseeing project work
- Taking responsibility for obtaining appropriate inputs to the Scheme Return and ensuring submission to The Pensions Regulator
- Supporting on wider governance work for schemes such as the implementation of the General Code of Practice, risk management support and board effectiveness evaluations.
**Skills and Qualifications Required**
**Qualifications**:
- Ideally, a professional qualification (or part-qualification) in pensions (e.g. APMI, AFPC or IFoA) or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Educated to at least A’ level/Scottish Higher level or with demonstrable equivalent experience.
**Skills**:
- Experience of leading and advising UK pension funds within a complex pensions environment in a Trustee Executive or Scheme secretarial role.
- Technical competence and solid understanding of the legislative framework for UK pension schemes.
- Strong organisational and analytical skills, with the ability to deal with ambiguity and rapid change
- Strong influencing skills and ability to positively and sensitively work with senior stakeholders
- Good written communication skills
- Ability to align people behind a vision and motivate them to achieve it
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders with varying objectives
- Ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems
- Experience of operating successfully in a previous consultancy role.
**Personal Characteristics**
- Strong organisational skills
- Able to build trusted relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
- A confident communicator with first class interpersonal skills
- Self-motivated
- A team player with a motivational, hands on approach
- Diplomatic
- Persuasive
**Reward and Support
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