Senior UK Pension and Benefits specialist

Leatherhead (3 days onsite)

Initial 12 month contract

Role responsibilities

• Supporting the team in its strategic project activity which currently includes the design and delivery of benefits improvements for next year, onboarding an additional company onto Benefits and supporting new companies with aligning their reward packages.
• Supporting the organizations UK employees with their pensions and benefits: through one-to-one meetings, both face to face and digital, over the phone and via email and Teams.
• Collaboratively manage the UK benefits team mailbox which is a key gateway for communication with employees, our benefit providers and other internal and external stakeholders.
• Supporting the UK benefits team in managing and operating benefits
• This includes:
• Reviewing data files going into the site from our HR and payroll systems and coming back from the site for loading into our payroll system and going to benefit providers
• Working with our customer success manager at Benefex to ensure smooth ongoing running of benefits through the platform, resolving issues as they arise.
• Using the platform software to maintain and improve the content of the site.
• Preparing benefit communications, using the platform to send them to employees and working with the US benefits team on global communication initiatives.
• Support the team in managing its monthly operational processes associated with the online benefits system, payroll system and benefit providers, including benefit deduction and pension contribution reconciliations, auto enrolment checks and invoices. This involves working closely with the HR, HR systems, payroll, payroll accounting, IT, accounts payable and finance teams.
• Work with the HR teams and other corporate functions to meet the needs of the business on pension and benefits as they arise: examples include supporting secondments, overseas assignments and TUPE transfers for particular projects or situations, supporting auditors with corporate accounting disclosures and supporting other companies within the group with benefits arrangements that are managed outside the platform.

Skills;

• Has some experience of administering UK pensions and benefits in-house and ideally some experience of both defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans.
• Ideally has some wider HR, Reward or Payroll experience.
• Has strong interpersonal skills and spoken and written communication abilities enabling them to work with and manage multiple stakeholders effectively.
• Has a strong capability in working with Microsoft Excel spreadsheets including an ability to handle and analyse large volumes of data, and a good working knowledge of all the main Microsoft Office applications.
• Ideally has some experience of using any of: Workday, SAP, ADP, Dynamics and OneHub.

If you are a Pension and Benefits specialist seeking a new opportunity, please apply now.

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Hafsa Akram