Retirement Actuarial Analyst

WTW; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Presencial; USD 65.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Willis Towers Watson is seeking an Associate in the Retirement line in Philadelphia, performing accounting and funding valuations for pension and retiree plans under US GAAP, IFRS and ERISA.

You will forecast benefit obligations, help set discount rates and mortality assumptions, and support proxy reporting. The role requires collaboration with clients and consultants across industries and progression toward ASA designation.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics or a related quantitative field.
• 1 year of experience as an Actuarial Analyst or related role.
• Experience collaborating with consultants on actuarial client projects across industries such as manufacturing, utilities, investments, legal, insurance, and health care.
• Experience with databases, data reconciliation, project management, and report writing.
• Experience contributing to plan design and union negotiations of retirement plans, including assessing liabilities and preparing cost estimates.
• Experience conducting asset and liability projection modeling based on funding policy and economic scenarios to determine funded status, net periodic benefit cost calculations, and minimum required contributions.
• Experience working with US GAAP, IAS 19, ERISA, FASB, Department of Labor, Pension Protection Act and other Government regulations.
• Experience carrying out experience studies to improve plan valuation assumptions such as termination and retirement rates, salary scale, disability incidence rates, form of payment election rates, spousal age difference, retiree medical participation rates and mortality credibility analysis.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Experience utilizing actuarial valuation systems.
• Experience with discount rate and pension benefit forecasting models.
• Exam progress toward designation as an Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA)

Responsabilidades

• Perform accounting and funding valuations for pension and retiree welfare plans following US GAAP, IFRS and ERISA regulations.
• Includes processing, reconciling, and reviewing annual census data for a plan population; producing and reviewing system generated plan liabilities; developing and reviewing financial reporting results and formal actuarial reports.
• Conduct forecasting and modelling of future benefit obligations for retirement and other post-retirement plans to help clients with annual budgets.
• Responsible for assisting with setting assumptions such as discount rate, expected return on assets, and mortality tables used in year-end financial disclosure.
• Calculate benefits reflected in proxy statements and review the statements to ensure accurate reporting.
• Monitor current market conditions and government rulings that could impact benefit plans and relaying these changes to clients as appropriate.
• Review actuarial valuation assumptions such as retirement rates, termination rates, disability incidence rates, salary increase rates, form of payment election rates, spousal age difference, and retiree medical participation rates by conducting plan experience studies.
• Manage multiple client projects by organizing periodic status meetings, documenting discussion notes, structuring project timelines and championing professional excellence.

Conocimientos

Data analysis

Client collaboration

Project management

Actuarial services

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science / Math / Stats

Herramientas

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Actuarial valuation systems

Descripción del empleo

Willis Towers Watson is seeking an Associate in the Retirement line in Philadelphia, performing accounting and funding valuations for pension and retiree plans under US GAAP, IFRS and ERISA.

You will forecast benefit obligations, help set discount rates and mortality assumptions, and support proxy reporting. The role requires collaboration with clients and consultants across industries and progression toward ASA designation.