Implementation Consultant

Management Level

EQ Retirement Solutions is transforming the retirement and pensions markets with leading administration and technology solutions. With over 1200 employees globally, 189 years of knowledge and 11 million pension scheme members and policyholders, we are here to help people plan for a confident financial future by delivering innovative, reliable and customer-focused retirement services. Our teams are driven by a shared commitment to excellence, collaboration and making a real impact to the lives of our clients and customers.

Role Summary

We are looking for an Implementation Consultant to join our team. It is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the team that is not only responsible for the core configuration of the system, but also working closely with the ongoing development of a system called Compendia, this includes contributing to development plans, reviewing enhancement requests, Compendia rollouts and producing prototypes for new functionality.

This is a great role for you if you already have experience in implementing pensions software or you are a pensions administrator with a good understanding of UK pensions looking for that next step in your career.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

 The successful candidates will be responsible for the following:

• Working across all aspects of the Compendia Touch application

• Liaising with clients (both internal and external) to understand their requirements for the Compendia Touch application

• Analysing, documenting and estimating client requirements

• Configuring and testing the Compendia Touch application

• Enhancing and developing the Touch Model

• Improving the implementation practices and procedures

• Working closely with the development team to refine and improve the system.

The duties and responsibilities outlined above are to be regarded as broad areas of responsibility and do not necessarily detail all tasks which the post holder may be required to perform.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

 The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:

• Strong experience as an Implementation Consultant.

• Educated to degree standard preferred but not essential

• Experience of using Pension Configuration Tools and MS SQL

• LGPS experience would be advantageous

• Relevant qualifications in the Pensions & Actuarial Industry desirable (e.g. Pensions Management Institute Certification)

• Prior experience in the Pensions Industry, either as a Scheme Administrator or Business Analyst experienced in capturing requirements for Pensions IT Projects

• Demonstrable software development capability

• Demonstrate commercial awareness & operational efficiencies/income generation in current role

What We Offer

• Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%

• Health and Wellbeing – Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.

• Employee discounts – Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.

• Flexible Benefits – The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.

• Time Off – Typically 29 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.

• Winning together – Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.

• Learning & Development – Investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues. 

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.