Senior Consulting Actuary | DB Pensions

Overview

In this role you will lead client-focused actuarial consulting for pension schemes, acting as the primary advisor to clients and overseeing project delivery. You will manage a client team, maintain strong relationships with Partners, and pursue opportunities to grow the firm’s actuarial and corporate advisory services. The position blends technical actuarial work with team leadership, business development, and cross-service collaboration. You will have a meaningful impact by shaping pension strategy, governance, and advisory services for diverse clients.

Pay / Benefits

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

Responsibilities

• Act as main client contact and provide advisory services to a range of clients
• Lead and manage a client team to ensure high-quality work within timescales
• Support Partners in client relationship management and issue resolution (fees, service)
• Design and manage surveys, apply statistical techniques to analyze data
• Attend meetings to identify client needs and propose initiatives
• Apply probabilistic and risk-based methods to pensions-related challenges
• Review and ensure accuracy/compliance of team outputs with scheme rules and legislation
• Provide guidance to clients on achieving objectives while meeting external requirements
• Develop own portfolio of Scheme Actuary/Adviser or Corporate appointments
• Deliver external talks as required
• Identify opportunities for firm-wide support to clients and report initiatives to Trustees or Corporate Board
• Proactively contribute to marketing, new business tenders, and pitches
• Lead and contribute to corporate accounting appointments when relevant

Key requirements

• Qualified actuary – Fellowship FIA/FAA or equivalent
• DB Pension experience
• Proven experience leading a team and people management skills
• Good IT skills
• Project and time management skills
• Excellent communication and networking skills
• Ability to translate ideas into action and develop junior team members

• leadership
• communication
• networking
• actuarial modelling and statistical techniques
• pensions risk and governance
• survey design and data analysis

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