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Senior Manager - Pensions Actuarial

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Senior Manager – Pensions Actuarial Consultant
ASSIGNMENT NO: 29956
LOCATION: Scotland
As part of this role, you’ll be working in a growing Actuarial & Consulting team – over 400 pensions experts – actuaries and consultants, advising a diverse range of clients and stakeholders across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.
They advise on everything from helping trustees and sponsors to manage their defined benefit plans, running large scale communications projects and implementing alternative reward and pension provision. The range of work they get involved with is vast and there’ll be opportunities for you to gain lots of great, new experiences, focus on working towards specialising in particular roles and put your skills to the test.
What does the role entail?
They’re looking for qualified pensions actuaries or those with significant UK DB pensions experience to join their team.
As a challenger in the industry, they are looking for individuals with excellent pensions consulting and technical skills, a commercial outlook and an entrepreneurial mindset.
Day to day, you will be:
- Driving key initiatives in the delivery of UK DB Pensions advice to clients – this may include managing key client projects directly, and/or supporting their partners and directors to deliver to their clients
- Being involved in the technical aspects of projects, this will also involve working with and building relationships with clients directly, working as part of a team and developing those around you
- Assisting in the development of new business, both with existing and new clients
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As a Senior Manager, you will take the lead and delegate responsibilities to junior colleagues on projects such as, but not limited to:
- Performing actuarial valuations and calculations for Trustees and advising them on how to run their schemes
- Developing pensions strategies for corporate, public and not for profit organisations
- Writing and delivering communications projects for members
- Insurance transaction and scheme consolidation advice
- Data projects such as benefit rectifications, pensions dashboards and GMP equalisation as well as opportunities to perform a Scheme Actuary role
Whatever you’re looking for, they can build a role to suit you and help you develop.
Where is the role?
They can offer a range of locations for you to choose from – they have offices in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Croydon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester and Reading.
They work on a hybrid basis, offering the opportunity for colleagues to split their working time between working in the office and at home.
As a business, they are great at building strong communities amongst their employees – both across locations and teams, hosting regular team building, charity, and social events.


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What they're looking for:
They’re looking for new colleagues with the following skills and expertise – but, please do apply if you don’t hit every requirement and still think you would be great for the role. Their business is better with a diverse range of experience, so they’ll consider each application on its own merits.
- A great communicator – someone who can explain complex problems in a simple way to help everyone around the table understand
- Enthusiasm and motivation – a great deal of desire to solving problems and delivering excellent advice
- Excellent project management and client delivery skills – especially when balancing multiple demands
- A great team worker – likely to have experience in performance management or a willingness to do so, delegating to junior colleagues and supporting the development of others
- Commercial skills – a curious mind, to help them develop their business and look for new opportunities
- Technical experience – significant experience of working in the UK DB pensions industry or individuals with highly relevant transferable skills
- Qualifications – Likely to be a qualified pensions actuary FIA/FFA, Scheme Actuary or equivalent
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