Pensions Regulation Officer

Pensions Regulation Officer

We’re recruiting a number of Pensions Regulation Officers to join our relationship supervision team.

Relationship Supervision involves working closely with pension schemes to identify areas of concern before they get worse, helping them improve and embed best practice. We work with many of the UK’s largest and most complex schemes, including master trusts,and have recently started working with third-party administrators. Neary 70% of workplace pension savers are in schemes supervised by our relationship supervision team.

**What will you be doing?**

As a Pensions Regulation Officer (Specialist grade), you’ll be at the heart of our relationship supervision team, which covers a wide range of scheme types, including defined benefit, defined contribution, public service, CDC, superfunds, and master trusts.

Your role will be to get to know the schemes in your portfolio and to identify risks and ways they can improve.
- Systematically reviewing key areas of the schemes in your portfolio as well as responding to events as they occur - carrying out an initial assessment and summarising them with a view to how TPR should react.
- Working with advisers to engage with the key people at a scheme, which might include attending evaluation meetings, reviewing scheme documentation or observing board meetings.
- Making recommendations and following up on assessments or action plans to improve regulatory outcomes for the scheme within agreed timescales.
- Building strong collaborative relationships with schemes as a dedicated point of contact and making informed decisions about the approach taken in influencing scheme behaviours, developing timely, efficient, and effective strategies
- Managing your own time and available resources to achieve positive outcomes and collaboratively working with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
- Using your knowledge and experience to set the tone of discussions, influencing high profile internal and external Boards and steering groups
- innovating and driving change, as well as getting involved with continuous improvement, projects and training

**What are we looking for?**
- Experience of working effectively independently and in a team while managing a portfolio of casework (or equivalent)
- Sufficient experience of working in a financial/banking/regulatory/legal/pensions environment
- Critical thinking skills and an ability to evaluate information to reach a decision
- Excellent communication skills for managing stakeholders and building relationships

**What's in it for you?
- Civil Service defined benefit pension scheme
- Discretionary bonus arrangements/ Access to performance-related pay progression
- 25 days annual leave
- Flextime, with ability to take up to two days’ flexi leave a month
- Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working
- Career development opportunities
- Enhanced parental leave arrangements
- And much more

**The company**

We are an inclusive employer committed to diversity and inclusion, offering equal opportunities to all regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief,sex and sexual orientation.

More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.

Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.

It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offera diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.

Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.

We operate a hybrid working model, with regular attendance in our Brighton office to connect with colleagues across the business.

**What to do now**

**Capita Opportunity Statement
- The parent company, Capita Plc*, are a leading UK provider of technology enabled business services. We’re supporting and improving the lives of millions of people every day and we can only do this with the right people in place, working towards a sharedgoal. We encourage an open, honest working environment where everyone can be true to themselves, and people are valued for their differences. We’re always challenging each other to learn and improve, because we know when we work together, we can deliver better outcomes.We work across such a huge range of businesses and sectors, that you’ll have the opportunity to grow and develop your career in any number of directions. You’ll also become part of a network of 63,000 experienced, innovative, and dedicated individuals acrossmultiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do deliver. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you._