Project Consultant

Management Level

F

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

The Project Consultant is a core member of the Data Solutions team, a team that develop sophisticated in-house analysis, reconstruction and recalculation tools through 15 years of hands-on contracted-out reconciliation experience.

The Project Consultant:

Provides coaching and motivation to colleagues within the team.

Manages own time to ensure effective delivery of project work and client service level agreements.

Achieves production and quality targets set.

Produces, checks and audits discontinuance and other project work and provide constructive feedback.

Provides specialist skills to the team such as in coding or technical pension support.

Works effectively with colleagues and stakeholders across the business.

Develops technical and process pension knowledge for DB and DC pensions

Department Information

Equiniti Data Solutions have worked with schemes covering over 4.5 million members, including schemes Equiniti administers, external schemes and across public and private sectors.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

• Identify gaps in processes and suggest solutions
• Highly analytical: thrives in a creative but logical problem solving environment
• Be able to innovate to improve unit times or accuracy either by new solutions or building on existing solutions
• Perform project management roles including designing and maintaining project plans and risk logs and interacting with external clients
• Performance management
• Demonstrate commercial awareness including ability to record chargeable time professionally and prudently on individual contracts
• Prioritising and organising own workload to ensure that deadlines are met and standards of delivery maintained including indicating when new work or assistance is required
• Provide ongoing training and coaching to colleagues
• Provide support to Project Leaders / Managers / Operations Director
• Escalate appropriate issues to Project Leaders / Managers / Operations Director with proposed solutions
• Issue accurate client reports, arrange meetings and teleconference calls – prepare for, attend in person as required, create agendas and accurate minutes
• Develop effective working relationships with team colleagues and internal and external business contacts – liaising with other departments as required
• Identify own training needs - seek and act on opportunities to develop technical and business understanding and skills
• Maintaining data held on systems and providing MI as required
• Deal with most complex issues

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

• Self-motivated and ability to encourage others Well developed systems proficiency particularly in Excel and Word including mail merge, basic Access and SQL proficiency
• Ability to handle and analyse complex and high volumes of pension data
• Must be flexible and proactive
• Able to work to laid down processes and procedures
• Strong financial awareness
• Understanding/experience of financial services in UK
• Awareness of scheme rules, industry regulations and current/historic pensions legislation
• Good communication skills 
• Attention to detail and capable of following defined processes and procedures 
• Computer literate with a willingness to learn a variety of systems 
• Strong numeracy skills
• Previous experience of Defined Benefits Pensions is essential
• Able to multi task – able to work under pressure and under own initiative

Can be regarded as an expert in chosen area internally and externally.  The specialism has particular value to the rest of the team

What We Offer

• Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
• All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) – Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
• 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.