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About the Role
We are looking for a Legal Counsel - Pensions to join our in-house legal team and work with our senior pensions lawyer to advise on pensions law and the taxation of pensions schemes. The role involves advising on day-to-day operations of the Master Trust and strategic advice on new product implementation, with potential attendance at Trustee meetings.
Responsibilities
- Advising on legal and regulatory requirements for bulk transfers into the Smart Pension Master Trust, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating transfer agreements, data sharing agreements, and pre-funding arrangements.
- Liaising with the Implementation team to coordinate transfers to the Smart Pension Master Trust.
- Reviewing member communications and marketing materials for legal compliance.
- Supporting governance, compliance, and risk management activities.
- Interpreting and implementing pensions legislative and regulatory change.
- Working closely with the Governance team to support the Trustee, including preparing papers for Trustee Board and Sub-committee meetings.
- Advising operational and member-services teams on complex pension legal issues.
Requirements
- Experienced pensions lawyer (around 2 years plus PQE), ideally with DC scheme experience.
- Confident and pragmatic approach to problem solving and managing legal risk.
- Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and work well in a fast-paced environment to meet deadlines within short time constraints whilst maintaining the utmost attention to detail.
- Ability to navigate the complexities of multiple internal and external stakeholders including our senior leadership team, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience of financial services regulatory regime would be an advantage.
Skills
- Pensions law
- Taxation of pensions schemes
- DC scheme experience
- Problem solving
- Risk management
- Attention to detail
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Financial services regulatory regime
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2 years plus PQE
Benefits
- 25 days’ holiday per year, increasing with length of service.
- £500 annual training budget for professional development.
- Extensive private healthcare, including dental, eyecare and EAP.
- Enhanced sick leave (three months’ pay per year).
- Enhanced maternity (6 months fully paid) and paternity (3 weeks fully paid).
- Death in service insurance cover.
- Fully-paid five-week sabbatical after five years of employment.
- In office wellbeing (manicures, massages, barbers).
- 50% discount on orders from sister company Arena Flowers.
About the Company
- Smart's mission is to transform retirement, savings, and financial wellbeing across all generations, around the world.
- Smart is a fast-paced growing FinTech.
- We work in partnerships with governments and financial institutions in the UK and internationally.
- Our cloud-native digital platform is revolutionising how people around the world think about, and save for, their retirement.
- At heart, we’re a financial technology business focused on innovation and using digital change to put the customer first.
- Engineers have the opportunity to play a part in developing world-class technological solutions, working with and learning from like-minded people.
- Colleagues love Smart’s culture and how what we do means better financial outcomes for savers.
Equal Opportunity
- At Smart, we are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to do their best work.
- We believe that diverse perspectives help us lead the way in transforming retirement, savings, and financial wellbeing.
- We welcome differences in background, experience, thinking, and identity, and we recognise that innovation is strongest when it is built on inclusion and fairness.
- We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic.
- If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or in the workplace, we encourage you to let us know - we are committed to supporting you.