Technical Consultant

Location: Bristol
Job Reference: 1283413
Role Grade: B2 - TLS

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About This Role

Summary of the role

Technical Consultants are expected to be experts in Pension and / or Life products, legislation, regulation, and to some extent the processes, systems and platforms used in the administration of our business. They provide technical consultancy and support to staff, external clients and their advisers. They are also responsible for providing specialist technical support on a variety of Aviva, Diligenta or legislative/mandatory driven projects.

Please note this role is available in Bristol, Peterborough and Salisbury.

  
What you’ll be doing
  • Address and resolve complex legislative, product, compliance and non-standard process queries
  • Providing in the moment coaching or training as appropriate
  • Referrals that will be dealt with over the phone, via e-mail or face to face
  • Undertake quote/ payments signing/ authorisations within agreed signing limits
  • Analyse referral trends, provide feedback and implement improvement activity to reduce queries by initiating process changes and/ or providing technical training
  • Disseminate technical information (written and verbal communication) ensuring full understanding and onward cascade to those impacted
  • Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for projects ensuring work undertaken is technically compliant and that risks are identified and raised in project risk registers
  • Ensure the technical sign off of all project related outputs e.g. Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), procedure guides, test scripts, technical briefing material and Q&As etc
  • Support the Business Acceptance Testing team by providing technical knowledge of product and processes whilst completing testing before every BaNCS release
  • Provide technical consultancy and support to Customer Service in the resolution/ mitigation of risks and/ or introduction of controls e.g. closure of audit actions, compliance concerns, incidents and escalations, department specific risks / controls
  • Suggest, develop and / or support formal technical training programmes that raise the technical competence of CSRs / CSTRs
  • Manage the design and delivery of the agreed technical training programme as appropriate
What we’re looking for
  • Technical Expertise – Life and/ or Pensions
  • Platforms – BaNCS
  • Communications skills – including ability to manage expectations, influence decisions, attain buy-in and effectively negotiate and compromise
  • Planning and organisation with ability to self-prioritise workload
  • Business awareness
  • Compliance and legislative awareness
  • Effective coaching and training skills
  • Project experience
  • FA1 and or FA2

The hiring manager to contact is: Chris Ware Email: chris.ware@diligenta.co.uk

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