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Job Description:
Key Accountabilities
- Act as a senior SME for complex UK pension benefit calculations, providing authoritative interpretation of scheme rules, discretionary practices and legislation.
- Design and recommend robust calculation methodologies for complex, ambiguous or high-risk benefit scenarios.
- Lead the calculation-focused solutioning and delivery of defined workstreams within large-scale programmes, including transitions, migrations, remedy and benefit correction exercises.
- Lead or assure the production of clear, testable calculation specifications and define appropriate testing strategies.
- Provide senior assurance of calculation outputs, defect resolution and reconciliation activities, including workstream-level sign-off in line with governance frameworks.
- Identify and manage calculation-related risks, assumptions and dependencies, escalating where decisions exceed agreed authority.
- Define calculation-critical data requirements and work with data specialists to ensure data supports accurate benefit calculation.
- Ensure calculation solutions are operable within the target administration platform and operating model.
- Act as a trusted calculation advisor to delivery leadership, clients and internal stakeholders, clearly explaining complex issues to non-technical audiences.
- Contribute expert calculation input to discovery, feasibility and bid solution design activities under Director oversight.
Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Deep practitioner-level expertise in UK pension benefit calculations.
- Proven experience delivering complex calculation solutions in large-scale or high-risk environments.
- Strong understanding of scheme rules, legislative interpretation and historical benefit complexity.
- Experience leading calculation specification, testing and assurance with minimal supervision.
Desirable:
- Experience of rectification or large-scale benefit correction programmes.
- Exposure to calculation engines, automation or rule-based calculation tooling.
- Experience supporting transitions, migrations or complex implementation programmes.
Personal Attributes:
- Highly analytical with strong professional judgement.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and complexity.
- Credible advisor to senior stakeholders through expertise.
- Collaborative, pragmatic and delivery-focused.
- Willing to challenge constructively to protect calculation integrity.
About Capita Pension Solutions
Capita Pension Solutions is one of the UK’s leading pension providers, supporting over 450 schemes and more than 7 million members. We deliver end-to-end pension solutions across administration, data