Actuarial Consultant - Corporate Proposition

• 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, corporate transactions, 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• Adhere to the firm’s Information Security standards, policies, and procedures.
• Responsible for careful and timely time recording against appropriate client and job codes.
• Keep up to date with developments in pensions law and practice.

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

• 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
• 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 and member options exercises.
• Have an understanding of related employee benefits issues in order to advise clients on strategy and liaise effectively with other disciplines within the Firm.

Hymans Robertson