Provides actuarial consulting and tailored advice to trustees and corporate clients, primarily for defined benefit pension schemes. Responsibilities include leading client meetings, delivering technical guidance, reviewing actuarial calculations, managing project strategy and resourcing, supervising junior staff, mentoring, and monitoring fees. The role requires a fully qualified actuary with strong pension, analytical, communication, project management, and UK pension scheme knowledge.
Company:MarshDescription:
Senior Pensions Actuarial Consultant - Nationwide
We are looking for Senior Pensions Actuarial Consultants to join our team and help provide high quality support and advice to our clients to make sure their scheme members receive their benefits as planned.
As a Senior Pensions Actuarial Consultant, you will be working in a team to develop and deliver customised advice and solutions to clients (trustee and corporates) with a primary focus on DB pension schemes. You will also have the opportunity to work with colleagues across funding, investment, risk transfer and covenant to bring the best solutions to our clients.
We will count on you to:
- Lead client meetings and presentations
- Provide an informed view on current topics based on client circumstances, and tailoring advice as appropriate
- Utilise strong technical actuarial skills used to consult with clients on technical topics
- Communicate with clients in a clear and succinct manner
- Act as final technical reviewer for actuarial calculations
- Agree the strategy, direction and resourcing for client work
- Perform supervision, appraisals and act as a mentor for employees under supervision (if applicable) or informally via feedback on client work
- Participate in setting and negotiating fees, where appropriate and monitoring of fee budgets
What you need to have:
- Fully qualified Actuary / scheme Actuary
- Excellent communication skills, strong analytical, numerical and critical thinking skills, including a good understanding of actuarial approaches for pensions
- Ability to manage projects, including distribution of work to junior colleagues
- A good understanding of a range of ways in which UK pension schemes operate
What makes you stand out:
- Significant experience working with trustees and/or corporates on DB pensions within an actuarial consultancy role
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrated business acumen, adaptability and a desire to be in front of clients, all underpinned by the required technical skills
Why join our team:
- We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
- We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
- Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.
Marsh McLennan London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
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