Mercer is seeking candidates for the following position based in our Dublin office:



Administrator 12 Month Fixed Term Contract



What can you expect:


The Scheme Transition Unit Administration team currently deals with a large number of projects. These projects range from working on the wind up of Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Pension Schemes, dealing with Pensioner Verification Exercises and also Deferred Verification Exercises. The overall team size is more than 8, with some team members located offshore. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work as part of the Scheme Transition Unit team to provide a high quality and fully compliant standard of service to our clients and to work on new projects that will be coming in the future. This opportunity would mean working with the team to ensure projects are completed in agreed timeframes.


What you will be rewarded with:


We provide a highly regarded and competitive package:
Competitive salary
Flexitime or flexistart
Flexible working/potential to work from home
Sports & Social clubs/Wellness Programme
Paid annual leave
Subsidised canteen
35 hour working week


We will rely on you to:

Administer a diverse portfolio of projects, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail.
Monitor and track task completion within agreed timelines.
Liaise with offshore colleagues to ensure timely completion of assigned tasks.
Collaborate with other team members and other departments to ensure project completion as per agreed terms.
Complete mail merge exercises ensuring all data is fully checked and manage responses from the forms completed.
Setting up and managing Share Point List for various data projects.
Completing reconcilaitions when necessary and collating Management Information data as required.
Data Analysis as required on projects.
Collate data for upload to the Mercer administration system.
Speaking with customers on the phone and dealing with their queries when necessary.


What you will need to have:

High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
Excellent organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines.
Ability to take ownership of work.
Ability to skill up on technology quickly.
Polite phone manner, strong and effective verbal communication skills.
Strong analytical skills.
Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel, including working with formulas, pivot tables, and V look-ups and MS Word.


What makes you stand out:

Pensions administration experience in a consultancy firm, brokerage, life office or working on an in-house scheme (desirable).
Challenges the status quo in search for efficiencies (desirable).
Project management experience.
Experience on dealing with data and analysis of same.
SharePoint and Qualtrics experience.


About Mercer:


Mercer believes in building brighter futures by redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and well-being. Mercers more than 20,000 employees are based in 43 countries and the firm operates in over 130 countries. Mercer is a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the worlds leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people, with more than 85,000 colleagues and annual revenue of over $23 billion. Through its market-leading businesses including Marsh, Guy Carpenter and Oliver Wyman, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment. For more information, visit (link removed). Follow Mercer on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin colour, Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at (e-mail removed)

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one anchor day per week on which their full team will be together in person.

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