Employee Benefits Administrator

• Job Title/Location: Employee Benefits Administrator, London/WFH
• Contract: 12 months, potential to become permanent
• Salary: £27,000 - £29,000
• WFH: 2 days p/w WFH + 3 days p/w office-based after training
• Requirements: Previous admin experience within employee benefits, pensions or life & protection business
• Role Snapshot: Daily administration of corporate client business, dealing with benefit scheme leavers/joiners, monthly pension submissions and payroll assessments

The Company: Our client is a well-established wealth management business that has expanded healthily in recent times, now consisting of around 26 people. This side of the business focuses on employee benefits consultancy for SME’s in the creative, media, tech, fintech and art sectors. Our clients growth is continuing with a need for this role and one other to be filled.

The Role: This Employee Benefits Administrator role will expose you to every element of the administration lifecycle, covering GPP’s, Group Life, Group Income Protection, Group Critical Illness and DB/DC Transfers. The main responsibilities include:

• Day to day administration of corporate clients
• Dealing with the administration related to new joiners/leavers of multiple benefit schemes
• Liaising with clients in a professional and courteous manner
• Communicating with providers on a regular basis to ensure schemes are kept up to date
• Renewals of group risk and healthcare schemes
• Monthly pension submissions via provider websites
• Assisting with auto-enrolment projects
• Dealing with general enquiries from both corporate clients and their employees

Skills/Experience Required: For this Employee Benefits Administrator role, our client is ideally looking for admin experience relating to either pensions, employee benefits or life & protection business, so any previous exposure to products such as DB/DC Pensions, GPP’s, Group Income Protection, Group Life, Group Critical Illness or Group PMI would be great. Strongwritten and verbal communication skills are key as is good attention to detail, the ability to work unsupervised, to tight deadlines and confidence with MS Office/Excel.

Additional Information: Salary for the Employee Benefits Administrator role is up to £29,000 pension scheme, PMI, Vitality & Wellbeing programme, Health Cashplan, study support and 25 days holiday. Hours Mon-Fri, 8.45am - 5.30pm with that hybrid/WFH flex.

The Employee Benefits Administrator position is one of a number of vacancies we are handling. ARC is a specialist within Financial Services recruitment and the Consultant handling this role has over 30 years of experience in this field. Areas of expertise include administration, compliance, business analysis, project/programme management, paraplanners, customer services, marketing, underwriting and more. Check the arcconsulting.com website and feel free to call Darren Snell at any time.