Barnett Waddingham
Senior Consulting Actuary | LGPS

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About the Role
This role is aimed at qualified actuaries with strong experience in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) who are looking to take a leading role in client consulting. You will be responsible for developing and managing your own portfolio of LGPS clients, with scope to act as a Team Leader, overseeing delivery, governance activity and working closely with Partners to set priorities and drive client strategy.
You will join a growing team with strong demand for LGPS actuarial and governance work, including new regulatory-driven projects. The role offers broad exposure, from funding strategy, employer risk and asset pooling through to governance support, employer transitions and statutory reporting.
A Snapshot of Your Day
- Client Consulting; Acting as the main contact, providing advice for a range of LGPS Pension Funds and employers
- Building strong relationships with and gain detailed knowledge about clients
- Manage a client team, ensuring work is of a high quality and within agreed timescales
- Support Partners in managing client relationships, identifying any problems that arise (e.g. level of fees/ poor service) and helping resolve them as soon as possible
- Attend client meetings and identify ways that we can help our clients and report new initiatives
- Lead on internal working groups covering specialist topics like LGPS accounting or governance
- Use of a variety of techniques and theoretical principles to assess risk linked to all areas of LGPS pensions
- Check work of other team members, ensuring accuracy and compliance with LGPS regulations
- Provide advice to clients on how they might achieve their objectives while satisfying the needs of all stakeholders
- Actively look for opportunities to support clients with other Howden services
- Present both internally to the team and externally to clients and give external talks as and when required
- Assisting with new business opportunities, including supporting tenders and pitch processes
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Requirements
- Qualified actuary - Fellowship Actuarial Qualifications FIA / FAA or equivalent
- DB Pension experience
- Demonstrated experience leading a team and excellent people management skills
- Good IT skills
- Project management and time management skills
- Excellent communication skills and good networking skills
- Ability to take forward new ideas
- A willingness to communicate and pass on knowledge and develop junior members of the team


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Benefits
- Competitive discretionary annual bonus.
- Core benefits including life assurance of four times salary, income protection of 75% of salary for up to five years, and single private medical insurance cover.
- A generous pension scheme with 5% employee contributions matched by a 10% employer contribution.
- 25 days' annual leave, increasing to 27 days after five years' service.
- Access to the Howden flexible benefits programme, offering a wide range of benefits and discounts to support your wellbeing, family life and lifestyle.
- The opportunity to be part of a growing global business where career development, collaboration and innovation are encouraged.
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