Post Admin Assistant – Part time FTC

Working across 5 days in Preston, Lancashire
• Are you a Team Player? And willing to take initiative?
• Want a role with no working on weekend’s, late nights, or Bank Holidays?
• Work for a company that offers career progression.
• Salary £23,500 (Full time equivalent) working 20 - 25 hours per week starting at 8:00/8:30 A.M. Monday to Friday.
• 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays and additional concessionary days

If so, we want to talk to you ……….

A glance at the role:

We have the opportunity for a part time Post Admin Assistant to join our Post Team on a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract with a salary of £23,500 (Full Time Equivalent)

The role will entail you to provide postal, scanning and administrative support to the Local Pensions Partnership Pension Scheme administration. This is a time-driven role which involves inputting digital post through the scanning system.

A bit about us:

Local Pensions Partnership Administration (LPPA) is one of the UK’s leading pension administration companies. We strive to deliver the best experience for over 2,100 employers and more than 655,000 members of Local Government, Police and Firefighter pension schemes, keeping them fully informed about their pensions whilst working closely with employers to continuously educate and support them.

What we can offer you:

• Competitive start salary: £23,500 Full time equivalent
• 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays and additional concessionary days
• Access to an excellent pension scheme (Local Government Pension Scheme) with generous employer contributions.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for when you might need some support.
• The opportunity to earn through our Employee Referral Scheme.
• Access to our bespoke Reward Discount Scheme – ‘Your Perk Site.’
• Opportunities to attend Wellbeing webinars and social events.
• Daily free fruit and snacks available to you in our office.


What you’ll be doing:

• Manage your workload and task lists to ensure deadlines and performance targets are met
• Treat information security with the upmost respect, dealing appropriately with sensitive and confidential information within Service protocol/guidelines
• Communicate positively and participate in the sharing of knowledge with colleagues
• Support service provision as appropriate undertaking other duties commensurate with the post
• Using internal systems to attach post to member records
• The majority of member post for the entire LPPA organization is received digitally and a high volume of scheme correspondence is received daily. Processing this involves attaching the post to member This work requires accuracy as it represents members’ personal data but is also time-driven since the output drives the Pensions Admin department workload.
• The role includes returning original certificates to senders, uploading returned fiche requests onto our system and sending out fiche requests
• Using internal systems to attach post to member records. Dealing with emails and assisting with some ad-hoc duties

Desirable:
• Proven ability to work effectively on own initiative as well as being an effective team player, promoting positive behaviour and attitudes, working flexibly, whilst at all times developing and maintaining good working relationship within the team and the service as a whole
• Demonstrable ability to work accurately and to deadlines
• The ability to communicate effectively at all levels possessing excellent communication skills
• Commitment to providing a good customer service at all times
• Ability to use Microsoft Excel
• Maintain an understanding and actively support LPPA’s equality programme, both internally and externally, along with all other corporate policy initiatives, including maintaining an understanding of the breadth of the diversity agenda and embedding good practice


Qualifications

• 5 GCSEs or equivalent including Math’s and English at Grade C or above

Working with and upholding our values:

• Working together
• Committed to excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Forward thinking.

12 month Fixed Term contract Pensions Administrator

Remote/Hybrid Working with 2 days in Preston, Lancashire
Fully Home working contracts will be considered for candidates living 50+ miles from our offices in Preston.
Salary starting at £23,800 DOE 37 hours a week

A glance at the role:

We are currently seeking Pensions Administrators to join our team on a full-time, 12 month Fixed term contract basis.
As a Pensions Administrator your role is to assist in the provision of a pension scheme administration service in respect of the pension schemes administered by the Local Pensions Partnership. To ensure work is completed to the highest standards demonstrating accuracy and attention to detail whilst providing good customer service.

You will join a friendly, welcoming and sociable work culture where there are many opportunities for continuous personal and professional development where you will be supported to reach your full potential.

So, if you’ve been looking for the opportunity to enhance your experience by joining a leading pensions organisation, we can’t wait to hear from you!

A bit about us:

Local Pensions Partnership Administration (LPPA) is one of the UK’s leading pension administration companies. We strive to deliver the best experience for over 2,100 employers and more than 700,000 members of Local Government, Police and Firefighter pension schemes, keeping them fully informed about their pensions whilst working closely with employers to continuously educate and support them.


What we can offer you:

Salary from £23,800 per annum dependent on experience
- 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays and additional concessionary days, with the ability to ‘buy and sell leave.
- Access to an excellent pension scheme (Local Government Pension Scheme) with generous employer contributions.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for when you might need some support.
- The opportunity to earn through our Employee Referral Scheme.
- Access to our bespoke Reward Discount Scheme – ‘Your Perk Site.’
- Opportunities to attend Wellbeing webinars and social events.
- Daily free fruit and snacks available to you in our office.
- Free offsite Car Parking


What you will be doing:


• To process and check a range of general pensions case work, including, but not restricted to benefits estimates, transfers, retirements, commutation of benefits and the combining of benefits, ensuring that service level targets and deadlines are met in respect these areas.
• To respond to member correspondence relating to the work undertaken within the team, again ensuring that service level targets and deadlines are met in these areas.
• To develop an understanding of current pensions regulations and overriding legislation, maintaining an up-to-date knowledge
• Liaise with customers and third parties obtaining information in respect of the work undertaken on the team.
• Maintain information security, dealing appropriately with sensitive and confidential information within Service protocol/guidelines.
• Ensure that all work is carried out in a timely and accurate manner achieving required accuracy levels.
• To sensitively and accurately assist and help our members and employers receive first class service by answering questions and queries.
• Deliver a flexible and responsive service in line with the needs of the business alongside taking ownership of individual enquiries and customer requests.
• Work independently without close supervision.
• Meet and exceed agreed quality and performance targets.
• To support the service provision as appropriate undertaking other duties commensurate with the post
• Comply with LPPA’s Data Protection and Information Security policies and any relevant GDPR legislation

What we need from you:


• Ability to work effectively on own initiative as well as being an effective team player, promoting positive behaviour and attitudes, working flexibly, whilst at all times developing and maintaining good working relationships within the team and the wider business
• Comfortable working with numbers and able to perform calculations where required.
• Ability to work accurately and to deadlines.
• Ability to use systems and processes relevant to pension payroll and pension administration.
• The ability to communicate effectively at all levels possessing excellent communication skills (both oral and written) and first-class customer service skills.
• Experience of working to and consistently achieving challenging targets.
• Great interpersonal skills and empathetic listening skills.
• Excellent IT skills including application of the Microsoft Office suite of tools, including Email and Excel spreadsheets.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Resilient and customer centric at all times.
• Team Player
• Fast Learner and take ownership for gaining knowledge and understanding.

Nice to have:
• Pensions or Financial services experience