- Pay Rate:
£15.00 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 12 months
- Northampton,
NN1 1ED
Temporary Pensions Officer
Job Ref: WNC 5027 23/06/22
To administer a pensions caseload to high standards of accuracy and attention to detail and with the appropriate standards of customer care. The post holder caseload will include reconciliation of deferred retirement, death pension benefits, calculating transfer quotations, answering pension queries and updating the member records.
Key responsibilities:
- Work in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations, as well as legislation applying to associated compensation schemes and all appropriate overriding HMRC and pension.
- Benefit calculations, communications, data input and validation, and checking of colleague’s casework.
- Ensure incoming casework is correctly logged onto workflow system (using Altair) and allocated according to team priorities, ensuring good customer care.
- Check information from a variety of sources, e.g. employers, HR & Payroll, HMRC and update records, ensuring the data is accurate. Check accuracy of record checks, regulation interpretation and calculations carried out by other Pensions Staff commensurate to team specialism and continually review accuracy to ensure comprehensive and effective understanding.
- Provide advice and information to employers, scheme members, pensioners and dependents regarding pension processes to ensure efficient and effective administration of casework for the LGPS Scheme.
- Contribute to the Office Management procedures, such as maintenance of integrated letters, office supplies and task management.
“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Experience processing local government pension scheme pension benefits, deaths, annual allowance, divorce, retirements, deferred benefits, transfer in and transfer out.
- Good mathematical background (desirable).
- Altair software experience (desirable).
- Strong IT skills using Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
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