BPA Senior Data Analyst

Phoenix Group Holdings
Edinburgh
1 month ago
Applications closed

We have an incredible opportunity for an BPA Senior Data Analyst to join us here at Phoenix Group in our Client Services Team within Retirement Solutions.

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh or London offices, working in your local office 2 - 3 days a week and meeting with the wider team once a month

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. 

Salary and benefits: £45,000 - £55,000 plus 8% bonus up to 16%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more 

Who are we? 

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role

Working closely with the Data Analysts and Transition Managers you will support many aspects of the overall BPA implementation journeys. The role would fit somebody looking for a challenge and an opportunity to develop themselves and their career. 

You will review scheme benefit specifications and large pension datasets, to identify any data gaps and/or updates required to the data to enable onboarding our outsourced administrator’s system.  You will provide support to the BPA implementation process, including checking payroll reconciliation results against our outsourced administrators and challenging any differences.  Support with the validation of scheme data during implementation through to buy out ensuring all data sets are complete, accurate and fully in line with the respective benefit specifications and query logs are clear with no ambiguity.  Review, update and check existing models ensuring these align with the benefit specifications so that bulk validations and payroll projections are accurate and querying any discrepancies with the Data Analyst and/or scheme administrator.  Support the Transition Manager at Trustee and Scheme Administrator meetings with your knowledge of the scheme data by discussing data issues found and seeing these through to rectification at data cleanse.  Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, Phoenix’s outsourced administrator, scheme administrators and Trustees. 

What are we looking for?

BPA data related experience  DB Pensions experience  Experience of manipulating large (pension) Datasets  Good excel working knowledge  Data validation 

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you. 

 If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best. 

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