Actuarial Project Consultant | Crawley, UK

Equiniti; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Actuarial Project Consultant to join their Regulatory Change Team. This role offers a unique opportunity for a Part Qualified Actuary with a background in UK DB Consulting. You will be responsible for supporting a variety of projects, including GMP Equalisation and benefit rectifications. The ideal candidate will thrive in a collaborative environment, utilizing strong analytical skills and project management abilities to drive success. If you're looking for a place where your contributions will make a real impact, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Equiniti Pension Plan

Long Term Incentive Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Discounts

Flexible Benefits

29 Days Holiday

Volunteer Days

Learning & Development Investment

Qualifications

• Experience in Pensions Consultancy and progress towards IFoA exams.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills with good communication.

Responsibilities

• Creating complex calculations and auditing quotes and claims.
• Performing project management roles and maintaining project plans.
• Identifying gaps in processes and suggesting innovative solutions.

Skills

Pensions Consultancy

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Project Management

Negotiation Skills

Excel Proficiency

SQL Proficiency

Education

Progress towards IFoA exams

Tools

Excel

Word

Job description

Management Level
E

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

Equiniti, one of the UK's largest Pensions & Benefits Consultancies, are looking to appoint a Actuarial Project Consultant to their Regulatory Change Team. This is an excellent opportunity for a Part Qualified Actuary with previous pensions experience in UK DB Consulting, who prefers the office / remote working environment to a client facing role. Supporting calculations, calc proforma's and rectification work across a multitude of projects such as GMP Equalisation, benefit rectifications, LTA abolition and McCloud remediation.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

• Creating complex calculations and writing exacting formulae
• Checking and auditing quotes, claims and servicing and discontinuance work
• Identify gaps in processes and suggest solutions
• Be able to innovate to improve unit times or accuracy either by new solutions or building on existing solutions
• Perform project management roles including designing and maintaining project plans and risk logs and interacting with external clients
• Performance management
• Demonstrate commercial awareness including ability to record chargeable time professionally and prudently on individual contracts
• Prioritising and organising own workload to ensure that deadlines are met and standards of delivery maintained including indicating when new work or assistance is required
• Provide ongoing training and coaching to colleagues
• Provide support to Project Leaders / Managers / Operations Director
• Escalate appropriate issues to Project Leaders / Managers / Operations Director with proposed solutions
• Issue accurate client reports, arrange meetings and teleconference calls.
• Develop effective working relationships with team colleagues and internal and external business contacts - liaising with other departments as required
• Identify own training needs - seek and act on opportunities to develop technical and business understanding and skills
• Maintaining data held on systems and providing MI as required

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

• Previous experience in Pensions Consultancy
• Progress towards Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) exams
• Numerate and literate.
• Is confident and has good communication skills including, written, verbal and face to face
• Able to work independently and use initiative.
• Is able to build sustainable working relationships
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong commercial acumen
• Analytical
• Good decision-making skills
• Able to work flexibly to achieve tight deadlines/targets.
• Professional and personable.
• Able to positively react to change.
• Resilient and calm under pressure.
• An ability to learn and share learning
• Self-motivated and ability to encourage others Well developed systems proficiency particularly in Excel and Word including mail merge, basic SQL proficiency desirable
• Deal with most complex issues
• Ability to handle and analyse complex and high volumes of data

What We Offer

• Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
• All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) - Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
• Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
• Employee discounts - Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
• Flexible Benefits - The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
• Time Off - Typically 29 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.
• Winning together - Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.
• Learning & Development - Investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.

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