Manager, Actuarial, Investment Consulting

Ernst & Young; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in the UK is seeking individuals for a pensions investment consulting role. This position involves managing client relationships, providing strategic investment advice, and contributing to team growth. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in UK pensions and a client-centric approach. This role offers competitive remuneration and a range of flexible benefits.

Benefits

Flexible working support

Career development opportunities

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Expertise in building trusted relationships with clients including CFOs and trustees.
• Experience in a consulting environment.
• Ability to work with complexity and adapt to change.

Responsibilities

• Lead contact for key clients and manage client teams.
• Provide strategic investment advice and identify opportunities.
• Support senior management with marketing initiatives.

Skills

Client relationship management

Strong communication skills

Consulting experience

UK pensions knowledge

Commercial awareness

Mentoring

Strategic investment advice

Job description

We are seeking individuals with expertise in the following areas,

• Be the lead contact and advisor on a number of key clients, responsible for the delivery of work and relationship with clients.
• Be a key contributor to the investment teams market views, identifying opportunities for clients.
• Managing client teams and projects, ensuring efficiency and delegating work effectively.
• Providing support to the senior management team with marketing initiatives and new market opportunities.
• Building effective relationships in the market and within the EY network.
• Helping develop team members through mentoring, feedback and training.
• Strategic investment advice including understanding of different investment governance and implementation models.
• Experience in advising Trustees as well as Corporate Sponsors.
• Good understanding of end‑game solutions including both run‑on strategies and risk transfer solutions.
• Managing client relationships and leveraging the wider team capabilities to enhance client experience.
• Good experience at contributing to overall team growth by building on relationships and/or developing new ones. Have a passion for providing outstanding client service and quality client advice.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Previous experience of working in a consulting environment and a strong understanding of how to build client relationships.
• Be a self‑starter, with a can‑do attitude and energy who is willing to try new things.
• Enjoy working with people from range of backgrounds and disciplines.
• Deep knowledge and experience of the UK pensions environment.
• Have good commercial awareness.
• Demonstrate initiative and creativity.
• Be comfortable with complexity and ambiguity and recognises the world is changing and will continue to change.
• At EY, we're all in to shape your future with confidence. We'll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world. At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. The EY Pensions Investment Team is expanding and growing. Our growth plans extend across Trustee and Corporate, as well investment consulting clients globally out with the UK. We are looking for self‑starting, diligent individuals from a consultancy or accounting firm who can contribute to our growth plans, with a particular focus on leadership candidates to push ahead the next of growth.

Opportunity

The Opportunity We are now looking to grow our pensions investment consulting business. In order to achieve this growth, we are looking for quality individuals with core pensions and investment knowledge and who have demonstrable experience of working with and building trusted relationships including CFOs of corporate sponsors, pension managers, trustees and pension providers. This is an opportunity to be heavily involved in shaping the wider EY investment consulting propositions as it incorporates strategic investment advice to a wide range of clients including Trustees, Corporates and global investment clients.

Benefits

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.