Senior Pension Administrator

We are currently working with one of the Uks providers of Pension and Actuarial services who are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Senior DB Pension Administrator to join one of their growing pension teams. This is an excellent opportunity for a pension professional with strong Defined Benefit (DB) administration experience to take ownership of a portfolio of schemes, support junior team members, and deliver a high-quality service to trustees, employers, and members.

As a Senior DB Pension Administrator, you will play a key role in ensuring pension schemes are administered accurately, efficiently, and in accordance with legislation, scheme rules, and internal service standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer a portfolio of Defined Benefit pension schemes.
• Calculate and process member benefits, including retirements, transfers, deaths, divorces, and deferred benefits.
• Check and review complex calculations and casework completed by colleagues.
• Respond to member, trustee, and client enquiries in a professional and timely manner.
• Prepare and maintain accurate member records and scheme documentation.
• Support pension payroll and annual administration activities.
• Assist with scheme events, projects, and implementations.
• Monitor workflows and ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are achieved.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Proven experience in Defined Benefit pension administration.
• Strong technical knowledge of DB pension schemes and associated legislation.
• Experience calculating pension benefits and processing complex member events.
• Excellent attention to detail and numerical skills.
• Strong organisational and time-management abilities.
• The ability to prioritise workloads and manage competing deadlines.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and annual bonus opportunity.
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
• Generous pension contribution.
• Private healthcare and life assurance.
• Professional qualification support and ongoing development.
• Employee assistance programme.

Please quote when calling Sarah at Alexander Lloyd or email them at sha@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.