Actuarial Analyst/Pensions Analyst

Our client has an opportunity for an Actuarial Analyst to join them on a permanent basis. We are looking for someone with DB pensions experience to join the Special Project’s team, and ideally you will come from a technical or administration pensions background with experience of pensions calculations and advanced excel skills (vLookups/Macros).

Role: Actuarial Analyst
Location: Fully Remote
Hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00-17:30
Salary: Up to £48,000 DoE

Responsibilities:

• Taking a significant role on a wide range of DB pensions projects for occupational DB pension clients, public sector DB pension clients and bulk annuity providers and may include any/all of the below plus other project types as they arise:
• Benefits and data due diligence
• Benefit calculation audits
• Data validation and improvement/creation projects
• Calculations testing (both doing calculations to test against automated results and using pensions knowledge to identify errors in/improve automated calculations)
• Benefit summary specification creation or review
• Attending client meetings or calls
• Acting as the client’s primary point of contact on some projects
• Documenting issues/results with clear communication style by email and phone
• Producing/reviewing consulting reports on projects, as required

Work includes:

• Benefit calculation audits
• Data validation/audits and improvement/creation projects
• Benefits and data due diligence
• Benefit correction/rectification exercises
• Benefit calculation proforma for administration teams to use on smaller clients
• Calculations testing (both doing calculations to test against automated results and using pensions knowledge to identify errors in/improve automated calculations)
• Benefit summary specification creation or review
• Documenting issues/results with clear communication style by email and phone
• Liaising with internal contacts across the wider pensions business
• Drafting consulting reports on projects, as required

Requirements:

• Experience in a technical or administration role in DB pensions or currently working in an actuarial team this could be part qualified or qualified by experience
• 18-24 months experience working at a checking level
• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Pensions calculations
• Experience with public sector pensions is an advantage
• A practical, wide/deep knowledge of occupational DB pensions
• Flexibility to work on different types of DB pensions projects, sometimes simultaneously
• Ability to deliver to tight timescales
• Clear communication with actuaries and non-actuaries
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Experience of supporting and developing analysts through project work
• Good team player, with excellent attitude and flexible approach to work

What’s in it for you?

• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform