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Employee Benefits Administrator Gloucester (BW1847)

£21000 - £24500 plus excellent benefits

Employee Benefits Administrator (Workplace Pensions)
Location:             Gloucester
Salary:                 up to £24,500 + benefits

This long established and well recognised Financial Services company (Pensions, Investments, Protection and Employee Benefits) have been providing financial advice to corporate and private clients for more than 70 years! The business has continued to grow throughout this time, largely through referrals and repeat business, in a lot of cases they have been looking after generations of family wealth.

It is an exciting time for the business as they look to grow in 2023 and want to bring in an additional member of staff in its Employee Benefits Administration team, to play an integral part in the back-office team to support the Pension Consultants.

Key Responsibilities

  • Play a key role in supporting the consultants to increase business income
  • Key duties include, but are not limited to; the processing of new business, product research, scheme renewals, compliance preparation and other general administration tasks dealing with products such as Workplace Pensions, Stakeholder pensions.
  • Updating schemes with regard to new joiners and leavers
  • Liaising with product providers and employers
  • You will have regular dialogue with insurance companies to ensure the information required is accurate for the specific business needs
  • Be familiar with the Proceeds of Crime Act & Data Protection Act

Key Skills

  • A team player! You’ll have strong inter-personal and communication skills
  • Ability to prioritise, whilst managing your workload through excellent time management skills and the use of your initiative
  • A working knowledge of MS Word, MS Excel and MS Outlook. An experience of the IFA back office systems such as ‘Intelligent Office’ is preferred but not essential
  • To prioritise daily activities and respond effectively and efficiently to enquiries
  • To be professional and tactful in all areas of communication with clients and insurers
  • To provide support to the team, when required, in addition to own duties
  • To build an ongoing relationship with product providers and third parties
  • To take ownership of problems and ensure their successful resolution
  • To maintain a good standard of product knowledge
  • Desire to learn, and undertake CII exams

Qualifications & Experience

  • Some experience working within an insurer/administration environment within Employee Benefits highly desirable.
  • A good working knowledge of Word, Excel, MS Outlook, e-mail and Internet

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary
  • Staff AE pension scheme
  • PHI
  • Life Cover, 2 x salary
  • Cashback Health Plan
  • 25 days (inc 3 used at Christmas when the office closes)
  • Day off for birthday
  • Exam Support
Location: 
Gloucester
Employment type: 
Employed (Full Time)
Sector: 
Pensions
Reference Number: 
BW-1847