Pensions Administrator - Public Sector

Summary: The Pensions Administrator role focuses on managing final salary and career average pension schemes within a New Client Implementation Team. The position requires expertise in pensions administration and calculation to support the setup and testing of automated processes. The role is remote and requires immediate availability until September 26. It is classified as inside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translating complex scheme rules into calculation specifications for development teams
• Pension administration system configuration
• Conducting gap analysis against scheme requirements
• Drafting detailed calculation logic and Excel-based specifications
• Creating test plans, scenario matrices, and test scripts
• Preparing test data and executing comprehensive testing
• Logging and triaging defects, supporting resolution activities
• Producing high-quality test evidence and documentation
• Supporting UAT, system smoke testing, and warranty assurance
• Producing user guides to support operational rollout
• Strong experience with final salary and career average (CARE) schemes
• Ability to interpret and document complex scheme rules
• Skilled in performing and validating retirement, early leaver, death, and other scheme calculations
• Understanding of public sector pension schemes, Legacy benefits, and nuances (highly desirable)
• Experience configuring or developing pension administration platforms (eg, ProFund, Access)
• Ability to convert scheme rules into accurate calculation specifications
• Strong Excel capability for modelling and testing
• Familiarity with end-to-end pensions administration processes
• Public sector experience is highly sought after and in short supply, and candidates with this background are strongly encouraged to apply.

Key Skills:

• Strong experience with final salary and career average (CARE) schemes
• Ability to interpret and document complex scheme rules
• Skilled in performing and validating retirement, early leaver, death, and other scheme calculations
• Understanding of public sector pension schemes, Legacy benefits, and nuances (highly desirable)
• Experience configuring or developing pension administration platforms (eg, ProFund, Access)
• Strong Excel capability for modelling and testing
• Familiarity with end-to-end pensions administration processes
• Public sector experience is highly sought after and in short supply

Salary (Rate): £525 per day

City: undetermined

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

• Pensions Administrator - Final salary and career average (CARE) schemes
• Remote
• ASAP - September 26
• Inside of IR35
• £525 per day

We are recruiting an experienced Pensions Administrator to join a busy New Client Implementation Team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with strong pensions administration and calculation expertise to support the setup, configuration, and testing of automated processes for new and existing schemes.

You will play a key part in implementing and validating new client schemes on pensions administration systems.

Responsibilities include:

Configuration & Specification

• Translating complex scheme rules into calculation specifications for development teams
• Pension administration system configuration
• Conducting gap analysis against scheme requirements
• Drafting detailed calculation logic and Excel-based specifications

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Creating test plans, scenario matrices, and test scripts
• Preparing test data and executing comprehensive testing
• Logging and triaging defects, supporting resolution activities
• Producing high-quality test evidence and documentation
• Supporting UAT, system smoke testing, and warranty assurance
• Producing user guides to support operational rollout

What We're Looking For

Pensions Expertise

• Strong experience with final salary and career average (CARE) schemes
• Ability to interpret and document complex scheme rules
• Skilled in performing and validating retirement, early leaver, death, and other scheme calculations
• Understanding of public sector pension schemes, Legacy benefits, and nuances (highly desirable)

Technical & System Knowledge

• Experience configuring or developing pension administration platforms (eg, ProFund, Access)
• Ability to convert scheme rules into accurate calculation specifications
• Strong Excel capability for modelling and testing
• Familiarity with end-to-end pensions administration processes
• Public sector experience is highly sought after and in short supply, and candidates with this background are strongly encouraged to apply.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.