Pension Delivery Lead
Lead with expertise, drive innovation.
Are you an experienced pensions professional ready to lead complex transformations within the financial services sector? At Accenture the Netherlands, we're looking for a Pension Delivery Lead who brings deep industry expertise, leadership capabilities, and a passion for innovation.
As a Delivery Lead, specializing in Pension Transformation, you will lead complex software implementation and migration programs for pension funds, pension administrators, and pension insurers. You will play a pivotal role in delivering digital transformation initiatives aligned with the evolving pension legislation, including the Dutch pension reform. You will oversee the delivery of pension administration platforms, legacy system migrations, and integrations with external systems, ensuring strategic alignment, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence.
🛠️ Your main responsibilities as a Delivery Lead at Accenture
Program Delivery & Transformation
- Lead end-to-end delivery of pension technology programs, from initiation through go-live and post-implementation support.
- Manage implementations of pension administration systems, data migrations, and integrations with external platforms (e.g., payroll, CRM, regulatory reporting).
- Ensure timely, budget-compliant delivery aligned with client objectives and regulatory requirements.
- Identify and mitigate delivery risks, including those related to compliance, data integrity, and third-party dependencies.
Stakeholder Alignment & Governance
- Act as a strategic delivery partner to pension funds, administrators, and insurers.
- Align delivery roadmaps with business goals such as transparency, risk control, and operational efficiency.
- Navigate multi-stakeholder environments, including regulators, software vendors, and actuarial teams.
Team Leadership & Coaching
- Lead cross-functional teams of business analysts, developers, testers, and migration specialists.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, agility, and continuous improvement.
- Support team development and knowledge sharing within the pension domain.
Communication & Reporting
- Communicate progress, KPIs, risks, and delivery value to internal and external stakeholders.
- Translate technical delivery roadmaps into business-relevant language for client stakeholders.
- Facilitate workshops, demos, and review sessions to ensure alignment and transparency.
🧠 How We Reinvent
🔍 What we're looking for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree, preferably in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Actuarial Sciences, or another Financial Services related field.
- 8+ years of experience within the pensions industry and/or Financial Services sector.
- Proven experience delivering software implementation projects in the pension domain, preferably with pension funds, administrators, or insurers.
- Strong understanding of pension processes such as benefit calculations, participant onboarding, contribution flows, and data migration.
- Familiarity with transitions to new pension legislation, including the Dutch pension reform.
- Excellent communication skills in English and Dutch
- Stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to structure complex programs and motivate high-performing teams.
🌟 Bonus points for
- Hands-on experience with pension administration platforms
- Experience collaborating with actuarial teams and pension product owners.
- Knowledge of integration patterns with payroll, CRM, or reporting platforms.
- Expertise in data migration, reconciliation, and compliance within pension operations.
🎁 What we offer
- Work-Life Flexibility: 4x9 Workweek Option, Hybrid Working, FlexDay
- Financial Well-being: Competitive Base Salary, MyBenefits Budget, Annual Bonus, Net Allowance, Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Health & Wellness: Collective Health Insurance Scheme, Mental Health Support, Well-being Hub
- Time Off & Leave: 26 Vacation Days, Special Leave Types, Culture Days
- Mobility & Commuting: NS Business Card, Mobility Budget
- Career Development: Performance Achievement Program, Learning & Development Platform, Guidance from People Leads
- Inclusion, Diversity & Social Impact: Do Good Volunteer Program, I&D Networks, Refugee Talent Track
- Culture & Community: Accentrics & Friday Drinks, Annual Accenture NL Party, Flat Organizational Hierarchy
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