Employee Benefits Officer

**Job Type**:Permanent

**Location and flexible working**:Initial training will be full time in Edinburgh office, followed by hybrid working

**Closing Date**:15.02.23

**Salary and benefits**:up to 26k, plus bonus of 8%- 16%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

We have an incredible permanent opportunity within the Workplace Benefits Platform area for an Employee Benefits Officer. We are looking for a customer-driven person to join our workplace and advisor teams and provide technical expertise, build relationships and do the right thing for our customers and the business. With structured career progression opportunities, this is a great opportunity for individuals interested in building a career in Employee Benefits.

**The role**

If you’re highly organised, enjoy managing your own workload, have excellent relationship building and analytical skills and technical expertise; this role will give you the opportunity to grow and enhance these skills whilst developing your career in Employee Benefits.

**What are we looking for?**

Essential
- High level of numeracy with strong Microsoft Office skills
- You’ll be familiar with Excel formulas such as VLOOKUPs, in order to reconcile and analyse data
- Proven success in taking ownership, using root cause analysis techniques to investigate and report / share findings
- Strong relationship building and communication (verbal and written) skills and enjoy working with a diverse audience
- Team player who identifies opportunities to improve processes and support other members of your team
- Technical mind-set with proven success in picking up new systems / processes quickly and learns from previous experiences
- Proactive with the ability to work alone without daily guidance on what to do (will not be micro managed)
- Ability to manage multiple projects, clients, tasks, prioritise, schedule own work (able to manage concurrent multiple active projects and provide support to other team members at the same time.)
- Advanced analytical skills with the ability to accurately analyse large quantities of data and present findings in a clear and concise manner across different mediums
- Takes personal responsibility for problem solving and continuous improvement with the ability to ‘think outside the box’
- Comfortable working in a fast paced environment with changing priorities
- Proactive approach and passionate about a career in Employee Benefits

Desirable
- A degree level qualification but not essential (numerically competent)
- Flexible benefits experience and general knowledge of UK compensations and benefits.
- Knowledge of HTML - Correctly formatted tags and tables in line with current web standards
- Awareness of Google Analytics
- Experience of benefits, pensions and / or payroll
- Experience of multi-stakeholder projects
- Knowledge of UK tax rules in the area of compensation and benefits
- Previous experience making improvements to processes, systems and services to ensure they are fit for purpose and support error prevention
- Standard Life pensions knowledge and administration systems

**Who are we?**

We want to be the best place that any of our 8,000 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 13 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£310 billion of assets under administration. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

**We want to hire the whole version of you.**

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

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