Actuarial Consultant – 28452

As an actuarial consultant, you will provide an efficient, high-quality service to clients, with a primary focus on UK defined benefit pension schemes, working with both Trustee Boards and Sponsoring Employers.

• Location: Birmingham/Edinburgh/Glasgow/London
• Category: Pensions
• Type: Permanent

Key Duties (Including but not limited to):

• Ensure 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 or ensuring that statutory actuarial calculations are prepared in readiness for sign off by the Scheme Actuary.
• Consult with client contacts to agree budgets and deadlines for work, ensuring necessary service agreements are in place.
• Build strong relationships with your client at all levels as appropriate, ensuring that we have sufficient breadth and depth of relationships with the client to deliver our core services to the levels expected.
• Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (or equivalent recognised actuarial qualification) with relevant pensions experience. Scheme Actuary certificate not required.
• Have a good understanding of the legislative framework for UK pension schemes, including all aspects of the Pensions Act 1995, disclosure requirements, and statutory reporting requirements.
• Be able to undertake the statutory actuarial calculations required in readiness for sign off by a Scheme Actuary.
• Have some broader experience in areas such as corporate transactions, risk transfer, liability management exercises, pensions aspects of sale agreements, or dealing with the practical aspects of bulk transfers.