Retirement Consultant
hace 2 días
Epsom
Consultant, Retirement & Financial Wellbeing \n Location: Hybrid UK \n Salary: Competitive + Benefits \n \n About the Role \n We're looking for an organised, commercially minded professional to take ownership of the governance and day-to-day oversight of several large UK Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes, including one of the UK's largest legacy pension arrangements. \n \n This is a unique opportunity to sit at the centre of pensions, governance, project management and stakeholder engagement. You'll act as the key link between trustees, advisers, pension administrators, finance, legal and HR teams, ensuring schemes are managed effectively, compliantly and in the best interests of members. \n \n If you enjoy coordinating complex projects, building relationships with senior stakeholders and keeping important programmes running smoothly, this could be the ideal role for you. \n \n What You'll Be Doing \n\n • Act as the primary company contact for trustees, pension advisers and service providers.\n, • Oversee the day-to-day operation and governance of UK Defined Benefit pension schemes.\n, • Coordinate trustee meetings, business plans, agendas and follow-up actions.\n, • Monitor adviser performance, budgets and service delivery.\n, • Support pension member communications and assist with complex employee queries.\n, • Maintain governance documentation, reporting packs and operational trackers.\n, • Work closely with Finance, Payroll, Legal and HR teams to manage pension-related activities.\n, • Support year-end accounting, board reporting and governance requirements.\n, • Assist with pension projects, strategy initiatives and regulatory compliance activities.\n, • Provide support on M&A due diligence and pension-related integration projects.\n, • Contribute to wider retirement, employee share plan and financial wellbeing programmes.\n\n \n What We're Looking For \n You'll likely have experience in one of the following areas: \n\n • Pension scheme management\n, • Trustee governance\n, • Pension consultancy\n, • Pension administration oversight\n, • Reward and benefits\n, • Trustee secretariat services\n\n \n We're particularly interested in candidates who have: \n\n • Experience working with UK trust-based pension schemes and/or pension risk transfer projects.\n, • Experience with DB pension schemes.\n, • Strong stakeholder management skills.\n, • Excellent organisational and project management abilities.\n, • Confidence working with senior leaders, trustees and external advisers.\n, • The ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver independently.\n, • Strong analytical and communication skills.\n\n \n Why Join Us? \n This role offers the opportunity to become a trusted adviser within a large, complex organisation while gaining exposure to: \n\n • Pension governance and strategy\n, • Trustee management\n, • Corporate finance and legal stakeholders\n, • Employee reward and benefits programmes\n, • M&A and business transformation projects\n, • Global retirement and financial wellbeing initiatives\n\n \n You'll play a key role in ensuring one of the organisation's most important employee benefit programmes operates effectively while helping shape future retirement and financial wellbeing strategies.