HCB - GB Retirement - SME

Job Summary

As an actuarial analyst you will need good numerical and communication skills the ability to plan work effectively and a strong desire to solve technical problems. You will learn what we do for our clients as you build strong working relationships participate and actively engage in training sessions developing valuable skills from day one.

This is a consulting support role where you will work as part of a team on a wide variety of complex projects serving as a key resource for our diverse UK based client teams.

Principal Duties/Responsibilities
Complex data manipulation
Calculating and valuing the benefits of individual members
Pension scheme valuations
Accounting disclosures
Crossdepartmental projects.
Partner with the Team Leader on managing projects training and supervision of junior associates
Successfully manage own workload while proactively resolving conflicting priorities or other workload
issues within the team.
Develop a trusted advisor relationship with service center and onshore client teams through effective
communication and efficient quality of projects.
Manage expectations and raise appropriate issues to internal and consulting office project managers.
Contribute to the development of new tools and approaches
Contribute to profitability by completing budget spreadsheets monitoring own time spent on project
seeking ways to enhance efficiency and maintaining accurate time records
Identify opportunities to enhance quality and/or improve processes to reduce costs
Meet production hours as expected by the business
Manage projects and leverage resources to produce quality deliverables on time and within budget
Serve as a mentor and provide technical guidance to junior associates.
Additional Responsibility
Responsibility of building the technical competence of the team proactively supporting team members
learning and career development
Primary point of contact for the team with GB based colleagues who support workflow management
responding to all requests and communications effectively and efficiently.
Providing input to continuous improvement and process confirmation processes.

Training:
You will participate in a structured development programme where you will be provided with onthejob training consisting of a mix of classroom sessions eLearning webinars recorded videos
selfstudy and reading. Upon successful completion of the programme there is potential to
progress into specialist or technical roles.
Qualifications:
Graduation / Post Graduation Degree required in a program with heavy emphasis on
mathematics statistics or economics
3 5 CT exams passed and the recent one with in the last two years with clear progress shown
towards becoming an actuary
Experience:
18 months of experience in performing and checking core UK retirement work in a clientservice
oriented environment with large corporate defined benefit plans
Must have experience with funding valuations accounting expense valuations or manual
calculations
Experience in checking and providing development feedback to analysts
Skills:
Good verbal and written communication skills
Client focus
Strong analytical and interpretational skills including ability to draw conclusions and identify
trends from data in a logical systematic way
Advanced Microsoft Office skills particularly in Excel
Adept at successfully managing multiple projects within specified guidelines
Strong leadership qualities
Ability to prioritize and organize tasks accomplish within stipulated timelines
Knowledge:
Indepth knowledge of Retirement
Good knowledge of valuation tools and systems