Associate Pensions Consultant (Trustee Services)
London 2 days
Salary £45,000 - £55,000
Benefits 10% pensions/PMI/Study Support
The Role:
We're seeking a motivated and enthusiastic professional who is looking to grow their career in pensions within a dynamic and expanding firm. You'll have recent experience working in a pensions consultancy or a large in-house pensions team, and be confident communicating with colleagues, clients, and advisers in person, over the phone, and via email.
A key aspect of this role is supporting the delivery of trustee secretarial and governance services to clients. You'll need prior experience in providing trustee secretarial and scheme management services to trust-based pension arrangements.
What you'll be doing:
- Getting involved in a broad mixture of client and non-client work
- Joining a number of client teams of varying sizes, each made up of people ranging from analyst to partner level
- Receiving support in studying towards relevant professional exams including mentoring, study leave, study materials and tutorials
- Developing, over time, the skills required to be an effective and successful consultant
- Organising trustee meetings, drafting agendas, producing meeting packs, preparing trustee papers, producing and managing an actions log
- Working knowledge of trustee documents such as a calendar of events, conflicts registers, risk registers and training logs
- Dealing with regulatory bodies and third party providers
Skills and Experience:
- Enthusiastic individual with experience in a pensions consultancy within a similar role, must be comfortable working both independently and as part of a team
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with impressive grammar skills for proofreading and writing correspondence
- Excellent attention to details
- Numerate - knowledge of very basic accountancy would be helpful but not essential
- Competent across Microsoft Office applications including strong knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and willing to be trained on in-house systems, house style, billing process, D365 and potentially InDesign as need arises
