Finance:
The team provides customer-focused financial management support for the Authority and its managers. Their responsibilities include accounting for contributions, pension benefits, investment transactions, treasury management, annual account preparation, external and internal audits, budgeting, financial forecasts, and maintaining financial controls.

Transactions:
Transactions are responsible for pensioners’ payroll processing and control, staff payroll, supplier payments, collection of income and raising of sales invoices (including credit control), and daily bank transactions processing and reconciliation.

Project & Performance:
This team ensures consistent program and project management across the organization. They support effective project delivery, manage the performance measurement framework, and contribute to the ongoing development of the corporate strategy

Governance:
The governance team is responsible for various critical functions within the organisation. These include managing governance arrangements, providing democratic services for formal meetings, coordinating learning and development, ensuring regulatory compliance, overseeing procurement, risk management, and maintaining organizational policies.

Communications:
Communications are responsible for both our external and internal communications plans and strategy. Including communicating with our scheme members including newsletters, annual reports, regular mailings and more, as well as looking after our social media channels, communicating with members, partners, and the wider public.

Executive Management Support:
This team is responsible for supporting the Senior Management Team and provides comprehensive administrative and management assistance. Their tasks include managing diaries, servicing monthly meetings, planning work cycles, ensuring timely reports, handling inquiries, and contributing to corporate projects, such as the annual report.

From recruitment to employee well-being, this team manages HR processes, attendance records, sickness absence, and promotes well-being initiatives. They also produce statistical information and management reports.

IT:
The IT team supports the organisation in all aspects of ICT hardware, software, infrastructure, and security. This includes end user devices, client software, servers, networks, internally hosted systems, cloud hosted systems, and telephony. Additionally, ICT develops bespoke desktop applications and online systems for the organisation and external clients.

Systems:
The Pensions Systems Team is responsible for testing and implementing upgrades and new installations to our current pension system, developing reports, and creating and improving processes within the system to help our frontline teams deliver a great service to our members

Operations Management:
The operations management team looks after Oakwell House and focuses on maintaining it and improving it in terms of health and safety risks.