Actuarial Consultant, Edinburgh

Job Description:
A leading pensions and investment firm is seeking a qualified Actuary to join their team on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will play a key role in working with Trustee Boards and Sponsoring Employers with a focus on UK DB pension schemes.
Essential Skills/Experience:
Qualifications:
* Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (or equivalent recognised actuarial qualification) with relevant pensions experience. Scheme Actuary certificate not required.
Technical skills:
* Have a good understanding of the legislative framework for UK pension schemes, including all aspects of the Pensions Act 1995, disclosure requirements and statutory reporting requirements.
* Be able to undertake the statutory actuarial calculations required in readiness for sign off by a Scheme Actuary.
* Have some broader experience in areas such as corporate transactions, risk transfer, liability management exercises, pensions aspects of sale agreements, or dealing with the practical aspects of bulk transfers.
* Understand related employee benefits issues to advise clients on strategy and liaise effectively with other disciplines within the Firm.
Core Responsibilities:
Client Delivery:
* Ensure that work prepared by the team meets a high-quality standard of service for clients.
* Work collaboratively as part of the team in the preparation of advice including reviewing/checking calculations undertaken by more junior team members, and peer review of client work for other colleagues.
* Signing out work in your own name where applicable or ensuring that statutory actuarial calculations are prepared in readiness for sign off by the Scheme Actuary.
* Build strong relationships with your client at all levels as appropriate, ensuring that we have sufficient breadth and depth of relationships with the client in order to deliver core services to the levels expected.
* Consult with client contacts to agree budgets and deadlines for work, ensuring necessary service agreements are in place.
* Encourage effective communication within client teams to support the delivery of work and understanding of client commercials.
* Prepare client invoices within the internal deadlines and subject to internal procedures.
* Deliver high quality advice working within a client team.
* Understand client needs to provide solutions and develop client accounts.
* Undertake project work or acting as champion for new service initiatives.
* Pitch for new business.
* Participate in the management, mentoring and training of more junior staff.
* Contributing to the technical knowledge of the practice via continuing professional development and peer review of colleagues’ work.
* Develop internal and external networks.
* Provide leadership, role modelling and mentoring to all members of the client team, including helping to proactively identify and uncover client development opportunities and/or potential threats and weaknesses.
* Present work in a clear and understandable manner to clients and colleagues as required.
Benefits:
* A highly competitive salary
* Wider Benefits package
Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.
Job reference: 15501
To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
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