Senior Pensions Administrator

**Basis**

Full time

**Job category/type**
- XPS Administration

**Date posted**

14/10/2025

**Job reference**

REQ003195

**Senior Pensions Administrator**

**Location**:Belfast

**Grade**: Consultant

**Employment Type**:Permanent

Hybrid

REQ003195

**About XPS Group**:
XPS Pensions Group is no ordinary company. We've earned numerous awards and accolades, making us an industry leader in Pensions Consultancy. As the largest pure pensions consultancy in the UK, we are a team of approximately 2000 employees spread across 15 locations nationwide. Listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market, we pride ourselves on our ability to think and act differently, offering expert advice to over 1600 pension schemes and administering pensions for over 1,000,000 members.

**About the Team**:
Our teams of pension administrators provide services to a wide range of trust-based company pension schemes, including defined benefit, defined contribution, career average revalued earnings, and hybrid schemes. Our range of pensions administration services include: scheme administration, communication, scam identification, payroll services, pension scheme accounting, de-risking projects, technical consultancy.

Our administrative approach is scheme-based; one team is responsible for every aspect of each client’s service, enabling us to build the best possible relationships and provide the clarity of focus each scheme deserves.

Ultimately, pension schemes are there for their members; we place just as much emphasis on delivering excellent customer service as we do on technical proficiency and quality control.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Training of other team members
- Assisting less experienced team members
- Checking and authorising other team members’ work
- Meeting deadlines
- Calculation and payment of scheme benefits in accordance with the Rules
- Maintenance of membership records and other documentation
- Project work as directed by Team Leader or Manager
- Liaison with Client, Scheme Actuary, Consultants, Providers, Pension Payroll Members and third parties
- Provision of technical information both verbally and in writing
- Compliance with ISO and AAF accreditations
- Completing updates to the database to ensure that records are accurately maintained
- Providing general support to the Administration team/manager
- Ensuring that work is prioritised correctly so that target dates are met

**Your Profile**:
**Essential**:

- Previous experience within a similar role dealing with DB schemes
- Experience within the pensions’ industry
- Able to demonstrate ownership, responsibility, and accountability for self
- Be organised, methodical and logical in approach to delegated responsibilities
- Able to assist with developing a culture of high standards, excellent quality and customer responsiveness
- Able to develop administrators and administrative processes
- Be well organised and be a point of reference for knowledge
- Able to plan and then be flexible with that plan
- Be proactive, having drive and commitment
- Able to communicate effectively
- Has a can-do attitude and takes pride in work
- Pays attention to detail
- Computer literate in the use of MS Office products, such as Excel and Word

**Qualifications**:

- Strong Maths and English GCSE or equivalent qualification - minimum grade B/6 or equivalent

**What We Offer**:
**How to Apply**:
**Equal Opportunity Statement**:
**Eligibility**:
Any employment offer made will be conditional upon you satisfying DBS Disclosure checks, Employment or educational references, Satisfactory credit checks and eligibility to work in the UK before an offer can be made. XPS Group is not able to provide sponsorship to employees.

**Who are we**: