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Vacancy type

Permanent

Sector

Investment Operations (Back Office)

Specialisim

Fund Reconciliation

Location

Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear

Language skills

English

Job reference No.

16112

Salary

Competitive

Data Published

13/08/2025

Closing date

10/09/2025

Job Description:

Our client, a leading financial advisory firm, is currently recruiting for a Transfer Administration Manager to join the team on a permanent basis. In this role, you will be responsible for the process management and performance of the business's Investments pension transfers processing and servicing teams.

Skills/Experience:

  • Transfer administration experience
  • Proven track record of leading high performing team
  • Experience in similar role, managing both pensions/ISA/GIA transfers processing and servicing teams around the flow of work, achieving customer satisfaction.
  • Strong excel skills
  • Project management skills
  • Process improvement skills

Core Responsibilities:

  • Manage the pensions/ISA/GIA transfers processing & servicing teams
  • Create a high performing team
  • Take ownership of incidents updates and closures
  • Support your teams by overseeing quality checks, complaint handling, breach reporting, escalation, attestation and resolution and to ensure and your teams tasks completed is of a high standard and compliant
  • Take ownership of team reports & MI produced for the management teams including Monthly MI/Reports and ensure completion within timescales
  • Manage any third-party relationships with regulators & suppliers
  • Monitoring the performance of the teams against SLAs and taking steps to maintain high levels of service as required
  • Produce & maintain teams MI and assist in the analysis and identification of relevant trends and issues, making appropriate recommendations and implement appropriate actions
  • Mange delivery of routine project work when required
  • Take ownership of new and inflight RFWs to completion
  • Ensure pensions/ISA/GIA transfers processing and servicing tasks are carried out correctly in the teams within Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
  • Ensure that Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are in place
  • Ensure that complaints are resolved within KPI timescales

Benefits:

  • A highly competitive salary
  • Wider Benefits package

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 16112

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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Rachael O'Neill Director, Investment Operations and Accounting & Finance

Originally from Ireland, Rachael has been an integral part of the Core-Asset Consulting team for eight years, bringing 20 years of recruitment experience from London and Edinburgh. With a background in Business Studies and an MA in PR & Communications, Rachael's unique blend of strategic insight and consultative communication adds valuable depth to our team and influences many of our client projects.

Specialising in executive search, financial services, and investment recruitment, Rachael supports clients across the UK and Ireland. She is a strong advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, mentoring young people through MCR Pathways and encouraging girls to pursue careers in finance and investment through her work with Future Asset. As Director and part of the senior management team, Rachael's passion for providing a truly consultative service, combined with her deep understanding of the financial services sector, has earned her a reputation as a trusted advisor in recruitment.

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