Actuarial Consultant - United Kingdom - Hymans Robertson LLP.

Description

Salary Highly Competitive

Location Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London

This is a Permanent , Full Time vacancy that will close in 24 days at 23:59 GMT .

The Vacancy

The Vacancy

As a corporate actuarial consultant you will provide an efficient, high-quality service to clients in the field of actuarial and wider benefit consulting in relation to clients' employee benefits schemes. The primary focus is on Sponsoring Employers of UK defined benefit pension schemes.

Your role will include taking responsibility for your client accounts, focusing on the preparation and delivery of advice to clients; coaching and managing less experienced members of the team; and building relationships with key decision makers to develop the client account.

Key responsibilities will include:

Client Delivery:

• Ensuring that work prepared by the team meets a high-quality standard of service for clients. Work collaboratively as part of the team in the preparation of advice including reviewing/checking calculations undertaken by more junior team members, and peer review of client work for other colleagues.
• Signing out work in your own name where applicable
• Inputting and reviewing strategic advice for corporate clients. Areas of work include (but not limited to) scheme funding support, endgame planning, company accounting work, corporate governance or benefit design.
• Building strong relationships with your client at all levels as appropriate, ensuring that we have sufficient breadth and depth of relationships with the client in order to deliver our core services to the levels expected.
• Consulting with client contacts to agree budgets and deadlines for work, ensuring necessary service agreements are in place.
• Encouraging effective communication within client teams to support the delivery of work and understanding of client commercials.
• Preparing client invoices within the internal deadlines and subject to internal procedures.

Practice Development:

• Proactively contribute to the development of the firm through a combination of:
• delivering high quality advice working within a client team.
• understanding client needs to provide solutions and develop client accounts.
• undertaking project work or acting as champion for new service initiatives.
• prospecting for new opportunities and pitching for new business within our corporate proposition
• developing market-facing material and content
• participating in the management, mentoring and training of more junior staff.
• active participation in internal forums to provide input to the strategic direction of the firm; and
• contributing to the technical knowledge of the practice via continuing professional development and peer review of colleagues' work.

Working Practices:

• Develop internal and external networks.
• Provide leadership, role modelling and mentoring to all members of the client team, including helping to proactively identify and uncover client development opportunities and/or potential threats and weaknesses.
• Managing the delivery of our core services efficiently and in line with agreed utilisation and recovery objectives
• Prepare work that meets professional and internal requirements, seeking advice from colleagues whenever any doubt arises on technical or client matters. Present work in a clear and understandable manner to clients and colleagues as required.
• Contribute as required and adhere to the development of internal quality procedures in order to continually raise quality standards. Ensure that all work is undertaken in a rigorous and methodical manner consistent with professional requirements and that comprehensive audit trails are maintained.
• Adhere to the firm's Information Security standards, policies, and procedures.
• Manage all work on nominated clients to ensure that work is done in a timely, efficient way and within budget. Where necessary, this may include liaising with other client managers and team leaders if there are conflicting demands on team member's time.
• Responsible for careful and timely time recording against appropriate client and job codes.
• Keep up to date with developments in pensions law and practice.
• Participate as requested in preparing technical papers for internal and external publications.

Skills and Qualifications Required:

Qualifications:

• Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (or equivalent recognised actuarial qualification) with relevant pensions experience. Scheme Actuary certificate not required.

Technical skills:

• Experience of working with Sponsoring Employers with their UK defined benefit pension schemes
• Have a good understanding of the legislative and regulatory framework for UK pension schemes, including all aspects of the Pensions Act 1995 and the current funding regime
• Be able to undertake the actuarial calculations required
• Have some broader experience in areas such as valuation support, endgame planning, corporate accounting, corporate transactions, risk transfer, member options exercises, pensions aspects of sale agreements, or dealing with the practical aspects of bulk transfers.
• Have an understanding of related employee benefits issues in order to advise clients on strategy and liaise effectively with other disciplines within the Firm.

About Us

Together, we've been building better futures for over 100 years. For our people, our clients and their people, our communities and the environment.

We thrive on tackling complex problems. And we believe those problems are best solved by diverse teams – diverse in skills, approaches and backgrounds. Our independence lets our people be themselves and think freely, while working in a collaborative, supportive environment. We love innovative, independent thinking and want everyone to share their ideas.

Working alongside employers, trustees and financial services institutions, we offer pensions, investments, benefits and risk consulting services, as well as data and technology solutions. With over 1000 employees and counting, we're one of the leading consultancies in our field and are proud to be recognised by numerous industry awards.

We're committed to developing our people and encourage everyone to carve out their own career path. We've many colleagues who started out in one team in the business and have ended up somewhere completely different, having had the chance to develop new skills and explore new passions.

Our hybrid working model offers the best of both worlds – home working as well as a fun, collaborative office environment - meaning flexible working patterns to accommodate individual needs. Find out more about our careers here .

If you need any assistance in relation to a personal requirement, medical condition or neurological difference during our selection process then please let us know.

Together, we can make this the best job you'll ever have.

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We Offer

Our culture

We live and breathe our four values – friendly, confident, partnering and straightforward – and genuinely care about out people, clients, community and the environment.

Job satisfaction

Every employee can genuinely make a difference and contribute towards achieving our purpose – together, building better futures. Whether that's helping our clients build more secure financial futures, using your 3 days volunteering or helping us reduce our carbon footprint.

Reward and wellbeing

We offer competitive salaries, a share of company profits and an award-winning benefits package. We also take your mental, physical, social and financial wellbeing seriously, both in and outside of work.

Flexible working

We trust our people to work in a pattern that suits their circumstances with a healthy balance of home and office working.

Latest technology

We use the most up-to-date technology and software to match our ground-breaking business solutions that make life easier for us and our clients.

Career development

There is no linear path – learning opportunities are plentiful and empower you to carve out your own career.
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