Pensions Risk Officer

Are you passionate about risk management, governance, and making a real impact within a dynamic pensions environment? Alexander Lloyd or partnered with a reputable Pensions organisation based on the North East who are looking for a Pensions Officer to play a vital role in supporting the Pensions function through effective oversight, control, and risk management.

This role will be a 15 Month Contract with a possible chance of a Permanent role upon completion.

🔍 About the Role:

As a Pensions Officer, you will be instrumental in supporting the development and maintenance of governance and risk frameworks across the Pension area. This is a first-line role with a strong focus on control mechanisms, compliance, and continuous improvement. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Developing and maintaining a robust controls monitoring programme.
• Identifying, escalating, and helping to mitigate risks in line with corporate risk policies.
• Acting as a liaison with the Risk team for incident reporting and follow-up.
• Supporting the preparation and submission of the annual Master Trust supervisory return.
• Ensuring ongoing compliance with Master Trust responsibilities.
• Coordinating the development, delivery, and publication of the annual AAF (01/20) internal control reports.
• Reviewing and validating Systems and Processes questionnaire responses to ensure accuracy and relevance.
• Serving as the main contact between external auditors and the Benefits area during audits.

✅ What We’re Looking For:

• Experience in pensions administration, governance, or risk management.
• Strong understanding of control frameworks and regulatory compliance.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to engage with stakeholders across different teams and functions.

Please quote 51738 when calling Aaron at Alexander Lloyd or email them at apu@alexanderlloyd.co.uk. This is only one of many vacancies we are handling, Alexander Lloyd is a specialist within Financial Services recruitment. Areas of expertise include Employee Benefits, Compliance, Pensions, Group Risk, Paraplanners, Sales Support, T&C etc.

Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants you have not been shortlisted for this role. Please continue to check our website www.alexanderlloyd.co.uk for any other roles which may be of interest.