About Penfold
Hi, we’re Penfold - we’re building the pension of the future! 🚀
At Penfold, we’re dragging pensions out of the dark ages with a modern, tech-first platform that makes pensions engaging, accessible, and rewarding.
We’re a growing team of 50+ team members across London and Tallinn, backed by top FinTech investors. Having raised £20M+, we manage £600M+ in pensions for over 80,000 savers and thousands of businesses, and we’re on track for profitability next year.
As part of our first 50+ hires, you’ll play a key role in shaping our culture and enjoy significant opportunities for growth and progression.
Why This Role Matters
As our Pension Payroll & Operations Manager, you’ll be the superhero behind the scenes, ensuring our members get their hard-earned pensions on time, every time. You’ll lead an amazing team, make complex processes run like clockwork, and keep everything compliant, secure, accurate and efficient as our member base and withdrawal transactions quickly grow. Plus, you’ll play a key role in shaping how we do things as we grow and evolve.
What You’ll Do
- Lead pension drawdown operations: Managing withdrawal processes, authorise payments, and collaborate with Finance to keep accounts reconciled.
- Oversee and run cash operations across the broader operations group.
- Ensure Compliance: Stay up-to-date with UK pension regulations, tax laws, and GDPR, embedding them into Penfold’s processes.
- Inspire Your Team: Lead and develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
- Streamline Processes: Optimise workflows and systems, collaborating with our tech teams to deliver a seamless experience for members.
- Be a Member Champion: Handle pension-related queries with professionalism, supporting our reputation for outstanding service.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience: Proven expertise in pension payroll management within the UK, with a solid track record of accuracy and efficiency. Experience in fintech or startups is a bonus.
- Knowledge: Comprehensive understanding of UK pension schemes, payroll systems (experience with Staffology payroll is a plus), operational processes, and compliance requirements.
- Skills: Exceptional proficiency in advanced spreadsheets, strong problem-solving abilities, and outstanding communication skills to effectively liaise with stakeholders.
- Mindset: Highly detail-oriented, process-driven, proactive, and focused on implementing effective controls, with a passion for delivering exceptional results.
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead and manage teams effectively, inspiring, empowering, and supporting team members to achieve their full potential.
Our application process:
- Hiring manager chat
- Task-based interview
- Culture fit interview (this is as much for you to get a better sense of us!)
- Founder chat
Benefits:
We’re working hard to create a working environment where people feel empowered to do their very best work, make a big impact, and enjoy what they do. Specifically, our benefits package includes:
- A competitive salary; we proactively review salaries to make sure you get what you deserve
- Meaningful share options, you’ll own a part of Penfold and share in our success
- 10% pension contribution each month that you don’t need to match (on top of your salary)
- Medical insurance, through Vitality
- Unlimited holiday, we’re interested in your output, not how many holidays you go on!
- Hybrid working, we like people to come in to our office (so it would be great if you lived in the London area) at least a couple of days a week to collaborate, but we trust you to get your work done in whatever environment suits you
- Great office space, plenty of people come into our wonderful private office opposite Borough Underground station.
- Free tea, coffee, soft drinks and snacks
- Free company lunch every week (e.g., Borough Market, Mercato Metropolitano)
- Laptop and any WFH equipment you need
- Option to buy a bike tax free, and spread the cost (using the cycle to work scheme)
- Learning and Professional Development – we conduct regular 360 feedback and focus on role progression that suits each individual. We support everyone with courses, events and coaching to help everyone reach their goals
- Quarterly company socials, and regular meet-ups throughout the year too!
- Plus a host of other benefits – see here: https://getpenfold.com/careers
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We are 100% committed to building a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability - we want to hear from you. If you have questions about the role or the company or the interview process, please let your recruiter know and we’re happy to answer these anonymously if that makes you feel more comfortable.