Senior Pensions Actuarial Consultant — Risk Transfer

Referment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is working with a UK analytics and actuarial consultancy whose pensions actuarial department advises trustees and sponsors on a wide range of defined benefit issues. You’ll work across a range of clients, dividing your time between pensions actuarial and pension risk transfer work.

The role offers opportunities to coordinate actuarial calculations, broker insurance transactions, and collaborate with specialist teams, with training provided for pension risk transfer work.

Qualifications

• Qualified pensions actuary with UK consulting experience.
• Excellent UK pensions technical knowledge including valuation and member options calculations and pensions accounting.
• Clear written and presentation communication skills.
• Ability to delegate tasks to junior team members while considering budgets and client needs.
• Willingness to learn and engage in pension risk transfer work.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate actuarial calculations with less experienced colleagues and review those calculations along with the associated advice.
• Within the pension risk transfer team, take a central role in broking insurance transactions, liaising and negotiating with insurers, attending meetings and managing projects.
• Work on schemes of varying size, from small to large and complex.
• Take opportunities to join other specialist teams, for example covering longevity, GMP equalisation and Collective Defined Contribution schemes.
• Attend industry networking events.

Skills

Pensions actuarial

Valuation knowledge

Member options calculations

Pensions accounting

Clear communications

Presentations

Delegation

Commercial awareness

Organisational skills

Client exposure

Education

Qualified pensions actuary

Job description

Referment is working with a UK analytics and actuarial consultancy whose pensions actuarial department advises trustees and sponsors on a wide range of defined benefit issues. You’ll work across a range of clients, dividing your time between pensions actuarial and pension risk transfer work.

The role offers opportunities to coordinate actuarial calculations, broker insurance transactions, and collaborate with specialist teams, with training provided for pension risk transfer work.