Consulting Actuary | DB Pensions

Overview

In this Consulting Actuary role, you advise trustees and employers on complex pension issues, helping clients navigate investments, de-risking, longevity, and legislative changes. You’ll work within an actuarial team delivering integrated consulting and investment services, with opportunities to lead client relationships and potentially become a Scheme Actuary or Corporate Actuary. You will contribute to firm-wide client work, mentoring others and identifying new business opportunities. This role blends technical actuarial work with advisory leadership in a collaborative, growth-focused environment.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive discretionary annual bonus
• life assurance
• group income protection
• private medical cover
• 25 days holiday per year
• pension scheme with 8% employer contribution

Responsibilities

• Act as main client contact, delivering tailored advisory for diverse clients
• Support Partners in client relationship management and issue resolution
• Attend client meetings, identify opportunities to assist and report on new initiatives
• Review and quality check client reports and actuarial advice
• Apply actuarial methods to assess probability and risk in pension contexts
• Peer review colleagues’ work to ensure accuracy, scheme rules compliance and legislative alignment
• Identify opportunities for new business and participate in tenders, including client pitches
• Lead and manage team workload and activity, coordinating with Partners on priorities
• Maintain current knowledge of pension issues and advise clients on relevant developments
• Manage client teams to ensure high-quality work within deadlines
• When leading corporate appointments, look for cross-service opportunities across BW
• Mentor and support junior team members through peer reviews and guidance

Key requirements

• Fellowship FIA/FAA or equivalent
• DB Pension experience essential
• Demonstrated experience leading a team and strong people management
• Good IT skills
• Strong project and time management abilities
• Excellent communication and networking skills
• Ability to develop and implement new ideas

• strong communication
• leadership and people management
• client-focused relationship building
• DB Pension modelling and actuarial analysis
• risk assessment techniques
• actuarial reporting and consulting

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