Senior Consulting Actuary | LGPS
Howden · United Kingdom
This role is aimed at qualified actuaries with strong experience in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) who are looking to take a leading role in client consulting. You will be responsible for developing and managing your own portfolio of LGPS clients, with scope to act as a Team Leader, overseeing delivery, governance activity and working closely with Partners to set priorities and drive client strategy.
You will join a growing team with strong demand for LGPS actuarial and governance work, including new regulatory-driven projects. The role offers broad exposure, from funding strategy, employer risk and asset pooling through to governance support, employer transitions and statutory reporting. Strong organisational skills, commercial awareness and the ability to lead and develop others will be key.
A snapshot of your day:
- Client Consulting; Acting as the main contact, providing advice for a range of LGPS Pension Funds and employers
- Building strong relationships with and gain detailed knowledge about clients
- Manage a client team, ensuring work is of a high quality and within agreed timescales
- Support Partners in managing client relationships, identifying any problems that arise (e.g. level of fees/ poor service) and helping resolve them as soon as possible
- Attend client meetings and identify ways that we can help our clients and report new initiatives
- Lead on internal working groups covering specialist topics like LGPS accounting or governance
- Use of a variety of techniques and theoretical principles to assess risk linked to all areas of LGPS pensions
- Check work of other team members, ensuring accuracy and compliance with LGPS regulations
- Provide advice to clients on how they might achieve their objectives while satisfying the needs of all stakeholders
- Actively look for opportunities to support clients with other Howden services
- Present both internally to the team and externally to clients and give external talks as and when required
- Assisting with new business opportunities, including supporting tenders and pitch processes
We would love to hear from you if you have:
- Qualified actuary - Fellowship Actuarial Qualifications FIA / FAA or equivalent
- DB Pension experience
- Demonstrated experience leading a team and excellent people management skills
- Good IT skills
- Project management and time management skills
- Excellent communication skills and good networking skills
- Ability to take forward new ideas
- A willingness to communicate and pass on knowledge and develop junior members of the team
What's in it for you:
- Competitive discretionary annual bonus.
- Core benefits including life assurance of four times salary, income protection of 75% of salary for up to five years, and single private medical insurance cover.
- A generous pension scheme with 5% employee contributions matched by a 10% employer contribution.
- 25 days' annual leave, increasing to 27 days after five years' service.
- Access to the Howden flexible benefits programme, offering a wide range of benefits and discounts to support your wellbeing, family life and lifestyle.
- The opportunity to be part of a growing global business where career development, collaboration and innovation are encouraged.
Accessibility
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