Trainee Actuarial Graduate (18 month FTC)

TN United Kingdom; Crawley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Trainee Actuarial Graduate to join their dynamic team in Crawley. This 18-month fixed-term contract offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in pensions-related project work while studying towards actuarial exams. You'll collaborate with a dedicated team to support benefit calculations and regulatory changes, enhancing your skills in a supportive environment. With a commitment to employee development and a range of attractive benefits, this role is perfect for those passionate about the pension industry and eager to make a meaningful impact in their career.

Benefits

Pension Plan with 10% match

Long Term Incentive Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Discounts

Flexible Benefits

29 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Volunteer Days

Learning & Development Investment

Qualifications

• Currently undertaking actuarial studies or background in pensions.
• Proficient in MS Office, especially Excel, with knowledge of VBA.
• Strong analytical, numerical, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Support project work for regulatory change projects.
• Attend client meetings and act as a point of contact.
• Apply complex calculations for DB pension benefits.

Skills

Actuarial Studies

Pensions Administration

Excel

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science

Mathematics

Statistics

Economics

Tools

MS Office

VBA

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05.05.2025

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19.06.2025

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Job Description:

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:

The main purpose of the role is to offer technical knowledge and input into resolving pensions related project work. Working with the team to support benefit calculation, remediation work and pensions regulatory changes.

The ideal candidate is someone already studying towards their Actuarial Exams and has demonstrated an interest within the pension industry. The role will consist of working alongside a team to produce calculations, calculation proformas, data analysis and calculation tool development.

Core Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• To support project work and help deliver as part of a team for regulatory change projects.
• Attend internal and external client meetings with support. To act as a point of contact for our clients on relevant project issues
• Engage with the wider Regulatory Change team and Data Services team on all aspects of service/project delivery.
• High level of systems proficiency particularly in Excel and Word. Building knowledge of in-house build calculation tools
• Work autonomously with established procedures and practise. Prioritising and organising workloads to ensure deadlines are met, and standards of delivery maintained.
• Refer to process notes and technical documents as part of daily work. Refer to Project Consultant or Lead Project Consultant if documents are not available or missing content and work together to ensure robust documentation exists within the work undertaken for projects
• Apply complex calculations and formulae, to calculate DB pension benefits.
• High level of systems proficiency particularly in Excel and Word. Building knowledge of in-house build calculation tools.

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes:

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:

• Currently undertaking their actuarial studies and/or have a background of pensions administration or pensions experience. (With a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or a related field)
• Understand basic concepts of legislation.
• Understand the basic pension scheme concepts and be able to define terms such as ERF/LRF/CF/GMP.
• Carry out basic calculations of leaving service and retirement benefits with support.
• Able to read and understand processes.
• Highly proficient in all MS Office applications with intermediate to advanced knowledge of Excel. Desirable, but not essential, knowledge of VBA and macros enabled functionality.
• Strong analytical, numerical and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication skills including written, verbal and face to face.
• Able to work independently and use initiative.
• Ability to deal with complex issues.
• Able to work both in the detail of a complex task or at a higher level, depending on the requirements of the task.
• Organisational skills to prioritise and organise workloads.
• Self-motivated and ability to encourage others.

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