Pension Delivery Lead

3900 Accenture B.V. Company; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4x9 Workweek option

Hybrid working

Annual bonus

Job summary

Accenture NL seeks an experienced Pension Delivery Lead to steer complex pension transformation programs across funds, administrators, and insurers. You will oversee end-to-end delivery of pension platforms, data migrations, and integrations with payroll, CRM, and reporting systems, ensuring compliance and value delivery.

The role requires 8+ years in pensions or financial services, strong leadership, and fluency in English and Dutch to manage multi-stakeholder governance and regulatory

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Actuarial Sciences or related field.
• 8+ years' experience in pensions or Financial Services.
• Proven experience delivering pension software implementations (funds, administrators, insurers).
• Strong knowledge of pension processes and data migration.
• Excellent communication skills in English and Dutch.
• Stakeholder management experience.
• Ability to structure complex programs and lead high-performing teams.
• Hands-on experience with pension administration platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of pension technology programs from initiation to go-live and post-implementation support.
• Manage pension administration system implementations, data migrations, and integrations with external platforms.
• Ensure delivery aligns with budget, timelines, and regulatory requirements.
• Identify and mitigate delivery risks including compliance and data integrity.
• Act as strategic delivery partner to pension funds, administrators and insurers; align roadmaps with business goals.
• Lead cross-functional teams; foster collaboration, agility and knowledge sharing.
• Communicate progress, KPIs and risks to stakeholders; run workshops and demos.

Skills

English fluency

Dutch fluency

Stakeholder management

Program management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration or Actuarial Sciences

Tools

Pension administration platforms

Job description

Lead with expertise, drive innovation. Are you an experienced pensions professional ready to lead complex transformations within the financial services sector? At Accenture the Netherlands, we're looking for a Pension Delivery Lead who brings deep industry expertise, leadership capabilities, and a passion for innovation. As a Delivery Lead, specializing in Pension Transformation, you will lead complex software implementation and migration programs for pension funds, pension administrators, and pension insurers. You will play a pivotal role in delivering digital transformation initiatives aligned with the evolving pension legislation, including the Dutch pension reform. You will oversee the delivery of pension administration platforms, legacy system migrations, and integrations with external systems, ensuring strategic alignment, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence.

Your main responsibilities

• End-to-end delivery of pension technology programs, from initiation through go-live and post-implementation support.
• Manage implementations of pension administration systems, data migrations, and integrations with external platforms (e.g., payroll, CRM, regulatory reporting).
• Ensure timely, budget-compliant delivery aligned with client objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Identify and mitigate delivery risks, including those related to compliance, data integrity, and third-party dependencies.
• Stakeholder Alignment & Governance: act as a strategic delivery partner to pension funds, administrators, and insurers. Align delivery roadmaps with business goals such as transparency, risk control, and operational efficiency. Navigate multi-stakeholder environments, including regulators, software vendors, and actuarial teams.
• Team Leadership & Coaching: lead cross-functional teams of business analysts, developers, testers, and migration specialists. Foster a culture of collaboration, agility, and continuous improvement. Support team development and knowledge sharing within the pension domain.
• Communication & Reporting: communicate progress, KPIs, risks, and delivery value to internal and external stakeholders. Translate technical delivery roadmaps into business-relevant language for client stakeholders. Facilitate workshops, demos, and review sessions to ensure alignment and transparency.

How We Reinvent

At Accenture, our teams operate within one of our core service lines, each designed to drive reinvention at scale. This role falls under Industry & Enterprise, where we combine deep industry expertise, emerging technologies, and operational excellence to help organizations reinvent how they serve customers and respond to market change. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of consultants, technology specialists, transformation experts, and industry professionals to solve complex challenges within the pensions landscape. From supporting pension providers in adapting to regulatory developments to enabling digital transformation programs and improving participant experiences, our teams help clients create sustainable value. Leveraging Accenture's global capabilities, advanced technology ecosystem, and extensive industry knowledge, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of pensions in the Netherlands.

What we’re looking for

• Bachelor's or Master's degree, preferably in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Actuarial Sciences, or another Financial Services related field.
• 8+ years of experience within the pensions industry and/or Financial Services sector.
• Proven experience delivering software implementation projects in the pension domain, preferably with pension funds, administrators, or insurers.
• Strong understanding of pension processes such as benefit calculations, participant onboarding, contribution flows, and data migration.
• Familiarity with transitions to new pension legislation, including the Dutch pension reform.
• Excellent communication skills in English and Dutch.
• Stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to structure complex programs and motivate high‑performing teams.
• Bonus points for Hands‑on experience with pension administration platforms.
• Experience collaborating with actuarial teams and pension product owners.
• Knowledge of integration patterns with payroll, CRM, or reporting platforms.
• Expertise in data migration, reconciliation, and compliance within pension operations.

What we offer

• Work-Life Flexibility: 4x9 Workweek Option, Hybrid Working, FlexDay.
• Financial Well‑being: Competitive Base Salary, MyBenefits Budget, Annual Bonus, Net Allowance, Employee Share Purchase Plan.
• Health & Wellness: Collective Health Insurance Scheme, Mental Health Support, Well‑being Hub.
• Time Off & Leave: 26 Vacation Days, Special Leave Types, Culture Days.
• Mobility & Commuting: NS Business Card, Mobility Budget.
• Career Development: Performance Achievement Program, Learning & Development Platform, Guidance from People Leads.
• Inclusion, Diversity & Social Impact: Do Good Volunteer Program, I&D Networks, Refugee Talent Track.
• Culture & Community: Accentrics & Friday Drinks, Annual Accenture NL Party, Flat Organizational Hierarchy.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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