Senior Specialist - Pension Administration

The First Line Administrator will play a crucial role in supporting the First Line of Defence Risk and Compliance team in ensuring our organisation operates in accordance with all relevant laws, regulations and internal policies. The main responsibilities will be:
To provide administrative support to the Risk and Compliance areas within the First Line - Financial Crime, Data Privacy, Risk Management and Compliance. Work with the 1st Line Leads to provide administration support in the following areas: oFinancial Crime - assist in fraud case investigations and escalations from the business, assist in Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering requirements for new and existing clients, MI reporting, maintaining data via databases or portals, co-ordination with 2nd Line to review fraud cases, maintaining fraud investigation documentation and support stakeholder communications. oData Privacy - monitoring and chasing Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) to ensure regulatory deadlines are met, data breach/incident MI reporting, assisting with breach investigations in times of high volumes, where closure actions are required for data breaches, monitoring to ensure these are completed in line with agreed actions to closure, perform screening admin for Data Privacy Impact Assessments, maintaining data via applications or portals, peer review of training/process materials, maintenance of Records of Processing Activities (RoPA). oRisk Management - taking risk committee meeting notes and follow up on any action items from risk meetings, general reporting required from risk management, assist in control assessments, assist in collating the quarterly KRI data, assist in maintaining data on the risk management systems, assist with monitoring and maintaining BCP plans including maintaining the respective BCP system and supporting any risk related training programs provided to staff. oCompliance - attending relevant internal meetings and supporting the business on compliance issues, supporting the completion of client due diligence questionnaires, maintaining the conflicts of interest portal, any general reporting required for compliance activity, monitoring of compliance to mandatory learning requirements, assisting with MI reporting, assisting with comms to the business on compliance issues. Other duties as may be required from time to time to support the other areas of the First Line i.e. Quality, Complaints and E&Os and External Certifications.

• Minimum of 2 years in administration, preferably in a pension environment or within a compliance function.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Proficient in the use of MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

• Broad knowledge of Operational Risk Management/Compliance/Financial Crime/Data Privacy would be desirable but not essential.

• Knowledge of relevant regulations and laws.

• Communication.
• Drive & resilience.
• Planning and organising.
• Relationship building.
• Administration capability.