My client is a leading financial services provider and due to growth in their Pension De-Risking team they currently seek an experienced Pensions Data Analyst with Defined Benefit or Bulk Purchase experience to join their friendly team.
This role sits at the heart of a fast‑growing pensions risk transfer environment, offering exposure to complex data analysis, scheme onboarding, and regulatory‑driven processes.
The Opportunity
You will support the successful onboarding and transition of defined benefit pension schemes into BPA arrangements, working closely with operational leadership and stakeholders.
This is a highly technical role where you will analyse, reconcile, and validate complex pension datasets, ensuring accuracy and completeness prior to policyholder transfer.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse defined benefit pension datasets to assess quality, accuracy, and completeness
- Perform data reconciliation and validation across multiple datasets, including cleansed and transitioned data
- Review benefit specifications and ensure alignment with data and administration requirements
- Develop and maintain calculation models and spreadsheets covering areas such as pensions increases, revaluation, and payroll
- Support benefit calculation processes and technical adjustments within data analysis and reconciliation activity
- Track and document data changes, movements, and audit trails across the scheme onboarding lifecycle
- Test and reconcile parallel payroll runs and benefit calculations to ensure accuracy
- Identify data issues and implement solutions to improve data quality and prevent recurring errors
- Support adherence to regulatory, compliance, and governance standards within financial services
- Work collaboratively with stakeholders across operations, pensions administration, and technical teams
The candidate
- Proven experience working with defined benefit pensions or BPA / pensions risk transfer environments
- Strong understanding of pension administration processes and benefit calculations
- Hands‑on experience performing data analysis, reconciliation, and validation within pensions datasets
- Advanced Excel skills, including complex data manipulation
- High attention to detail with strong analytical and problem‑solving capability
- Experience working within regulated, compliance‑driven environments
- Strong communication skills and stakeholder engagement ability
In return my client offer a generous remuneration package, varied and interesting workload, excellent prospects for development and hybrid working.