- Location
- Amsterdam, Gustav Mahlerplein 90, Netherlands
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Transportation
- Seniority
- Lead
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- Master
- Source
- Workday
Description
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
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com
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