Employee Benefits/Pension Administrator

Telent Employee Benefits/Pension Administrator, Warwick - Permanent

In these extraordinary times of the coronavirus outbreak Telent is continuing to Recruit. We provide services to customers which are integral to providing mission critical systems and infrastructure across the UK and Ireland and we need to continue to deliver those services.

To help limit the amount of face to face contact during the recruitment process, we will now do more online assessments and use Skype/Conf Calls for interviews wherever possible.

With current annual revenues in excess of GBP400M and 2,400 employees. We operate within various industry sectors including Rail, Traffic, Public Safety, Defence, Service Providers, Enterprise and Public Sector.

Role Profile:

The main responsibilities include, but may not be limited to.

Administering telent's benefit programmes:

Pension Scheme - the telent 2010 Plan.
Healthcare schemes
Company funded healthcare - BUPA
Voluntary healthcare - PHC
Cash plan (BUPA).
Risk Benefits
Life Assurance
Income Protection.
Retail discount scheme (Telent Rewards).
Cycle to Work Scheme.
Implementing administration procedures to implement new benefits.
Providing management information about benefit schemes to senior HR Management.
Supporting telent's sales, M&A and disposal activity through the provision and analysis of benefits related information and by managing the benefits administration for staff joining or leaving the business.
To be a subject matter expert, coaching colleagues to answer basic benefits queries, and answering more complex queries from employees and colleagues.
Managing benefits communications, including maintenance of benefits Pulse pages.
Administering bonus schemes.

Typical Deliverables:

Twice yearly pension contribution change window for employees.
Monthly auto-enrolment and Triennial re-auto enrolment process.
Support for annual healthcare renewal.
Monthly reconciliation of healthcare membership.
Monthly reconciliation of life assurance cover.
Case management of payments from life assurance.
Annual review of telent rewards.
Management of year round cycle to work applications.
Monthly management information report.
Bonus participation and payment letters.

We'd be delighted to hear from you if you have the following skills/experience:

At least 3 years working in benefits administration with experience of:

Pensions.
Risk benefits (life insurance, income protection).
Healthcare.
Other benefits as appropriate.Some or all of the experience should have been gained in an in-house HR team, rather than a benefits provider.

Business Operations Skills - Qualifications:

Pensions (PMI) or Insurance (IIS or higher) qualification preferred.
Broad Office skills, with Excel paramount.
Must have a high degree of numeracy.

Behavioural Requirements:

Must be confident dealing with people at all levels of the organisation.
Must be able to demonstrate technical credibility.
Must have the ability to explain technical matters to non-experts in an understandable way.
Likely to be a lone expert so while being a member of the HR & payroll team, must be confident with relying on own judgement and on others relying on that judgement.
Will deal with employees and families in stressful situations, so must be able to display strong empathy.
Must also be confident with imposing company policy where necessary.

Excellent employee benefits:

Telent is committed to ensuring that we offer industry leading career opportunities, salary and benefits packages. Join us and you can expect to receive:

33 days holiday, including public holidays, plus the option to buy or sell five days each year
Occupational health support
Discounts on Cinema, Restaurants and Shopping with Telent Reward schemeWe reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications.

Telent is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion