Senior Pensions Administrator DB Schemes & Mentoring

Spence; Manchester; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Spence in Manchester is seeking a Senior Pensions Administrator to lead day-to-day DB pension administration, ensuring accuracy and timely benefits for members and trustees.

You will review colleagues’ work, mentor junior staff, and contribute to proposals and client pitches while maintaining high service standards in a fast-moving environment.

The role offers stability in a specialist pensions team and the opportunity to develop expertise across defined benefit schemes.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Defined Benefit pension administration.
• Broad knowledge of UK pensions legislation, regulations and codes of practice.
• Strong ability to review and check work of junior colleagues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with members and trustees.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day running of Defined Benefit schemes.
• Be point of contact for scheme members, trustees, advisers.
• Perform and check complex benefit calculations (ill-health, divorce, or non-standard cases).
• Review and authorise junior colleagues' work; provide mentoring.
• Ensure tasks are accurate, on time, within service standards.
• Contribute to scheme exercises like wind-ups, GMP reconciliations, member communications.
• Work proactively, independently; resolve queries and identify improvements.
• Support business development with technical input for proposals or pitches.

Skills

DB pension administration

Pensions legislation

Benefit calculations

Communication skills

Mentoring

Independent working

Job description

Spence in Manchester is seeking a Senior Pensions Administrator to lead day-to-day DB pension administration, ensuring accuracy and timely benefits for members and trustees.

You will review colleagues’ work, mentor junior staff, and contribute to proposals and client pitches while maintaining high service standards in a fast-moving environment.

The role offers stability in a specialist pensions team and the opportunity to develop expertise across defined benefit schemes.