Grade: Consultant

Employment Type: Permanent, Full Time

Remote

REQ003608

About XPS Group

XPS Pensions Group is no ordinary company. We've earned numerous awards and accolades, making us an industry leader in Pensions Consultancy. As the largest pure pensions consultancy in the UK, we are a team of approximately 2000 employees spread across 15 locations nationwide. Listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market, we pride ourselves on our ability to think and act differently, offering expert advice to over 1600 pension schemes and administering pensions for over 1,000,000 members.

About The Role

Remote working opportunities with occasional office visits to an XPS office for team building - location and frequency to be discussed at interview.

We are currently seeking a Project Consultant to join our Admin Project Team. The XPS Admin Project Team (APT) is a separate, highly experienced, and specialised project resource comprised of circa 85 staff. APT have vast experience of working on numerous projects from data cleansing and benefit rectification to buy outs and wind ups. The team undertake project work from across XPS ensuring that day to day Administration work and resource is unaffected.

Our APT team undertakes projects such as: GMP rectification/equalisation, buy-in/buy-out, data cleansing, ad hoc projects for example scheme closures, benefit rectifications, liability reduction exercises, McCloud and pension dashboards.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading and managing project end to end, in line with budgets, deadlines and objectives.
• Coordinate and support less experienced staff.
• This role is client facing therefore you will be expected to:
  • Act as a point of contact generally and to explain complex issues.
  • Attend client and trustee meetings to present project update.
  • Set and achieve project delivery deadlines within scope and budget. Ensure client sign off on fees and scope has been secured as the work.
  • Delivery of projects within agreed budgets, identification of out of scope work and proactive management and discussion with the clients to ensure that all work is billed in a timely manner.
  • Involvement in process improvement initiatives.
  • Completion and review of calculations for pensions benefit data both manually and spreadsheet based.
  • Partner with Client and Administration Managers within the business on project delivery requirements and stakeholder management.
  • Dealing confidently with HMRC, Client, Scheme, Actuaries, Scheme Administrators, Consultants, Pension Accounts/Payroll, Members and third parties by phone, email and letter.
  • Checking and authorising other team members’ work.
  • Understanding and application of benefit structure, Trust Deed & Rules, Inland Revenue of guidance notes, PSO, Disclosure requirements.
  • Provision of technical information both verbally and in writing.
  • Compliance with ISO and AAF accreditations.
  • Checking and authorising project work.
  • Providing general support to the team manager.
  • Support the delivery of a continuous improvement programme championing operational excellence while identifying areas where the project delivery service to clients could be improved and/or expanded.