An exciting opportunity for a technically strong and experienced nearly/newly qualified Consultant to join their team. This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious career minded individual wanting a challenging and rewarding career.
Overview
Key duties (including, but not limited to):
- To work with a variety of clients, some trustee and some corporate, for a range of scheme types and sizes
- Attending client meetings with the client partner
- Presenting technical issues at a client meeting from time to time
- Acting as a key point of contact for clients on a day-to-day basis, by phone and e-mail
- Managing a small team of actuarial staff to produce client work on time and within budget
- Providing training from time to time to more junior actuarial staff
- Leading the core work on actuarial valuations for funding purposes, solvency testing and buy-in analysis
- Drafting pieces of advice, either from scratch or using template documents or precedents, to a standard where they are ready to be sent out
- Reviewing draft trust deeds and rules and member booklets
- Reviewing individual member calculations including transfers-in, transfers-out, early retirements, benefit augmentations, maximum authorised cash lump sums and taxation limit
Qualifications required:
- You must be about to become a qualified FIA / FFA or have up to 4 years post qualification experience
Experience required:
- Have excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- Be fully conversant with all technical aspects of UK pensions work
- Have supervisory experience of more junior actuarial staff
- Be capable of working to tight deadlines