Technical Analyst

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Marsh McLennan Full time

Technical Analyst - Mercer UK Wealth - London - April 2023 Start

Mercer is currently looking to grow it's technical support team by appointing talented and ambitious analysts in an exciting, revenue generating, and high profile role. This is an opportunity to join an established centre of excellence, specialising in a wide range of retirement solutions, providing technical expertise and support to our UK actuarial team. We are looking for strong team players with excellent numerical, communication and business acumen skills, with a desire to learn and expand their skills into new areas.

Mercer has a wide variety of clients in many different industries. It's a great time to join, and our unique client base means that you will gain experience and skills across these industries, as well as working alongside the best and brightest in the industry. If you want to tackle new challenges, develop a breadth of skills, be a part of a growing business and have fun at the same time, read on.

The Programme

Mercer is seeking to hire the best talent to join our analyst development programme. The roles will be in ourWealth business, with the immediate focus being the delivery of GMP Equalisation projects (under the Mercer GMP proposition). Work on these projects can incorporate or lead onto being involved in wider activities such as de-risking and financial strategy projects for our clients.

The programme is designed to provide you with a fast track route to being involved in complex and technical client projects, delivering work as part of a wider client team.. It's an intense programme, aimed at developing your technical skills.

What can you expect?

You will work as part of a team supporting senior actuaries and consultants, primarily providing input on projects being carried out for defined benefit pension scheme trustees and corporate sponsors in areas such as GMP, risk management and more. You will help to develop and deliver customised advice and solutions to clients. The world of retirement saving is changing and Mercer is developing innovative solutions for our clients and their employees, including supporting them on the journey to their end game. This is your opportunity to be part of their journey.

What are we looking for?

The role is open to graduates and those in their early years of being within the DB pension industry and will be based in our London office. We are looking for motivated individuals who want to work hard, challenge the status quo and help deliver innovative solutions to our clients. In particular, we value:

  • Intellectual curiosity; seeking opportunities to develop new skills.
  • Strong numerical and analytical skills, both quantitative and qualitative.
  • Excellent communication skills with strong attention to detail.
  • Natural proactivity, organisational, presentational and project management skills.
  • Ability to work in teams, be flexible and agile.
  • Ability to work to tight deadlines and respond to changing client needs.
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office — Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

What is in it for you?

  • The chance to operate within a large global organisation that is incredibly passionate about how it works and cares for its clients across the world.
  • Excellent development, career mobility and advancement opportunities.
  • Client exposure, across a variety of disciplines, at an early stage.
  • Learning every day, throughout your career.
  • Exposure to working with some of the best people in the industry.
  • Making an impact – we work with major organisations and our work affects millions of people every day (it's true, we've done the maths).
  • Focus on developing analytical skills. There will also be a strong focus on ensuring softer skills are developed alongside.
  • For the first three months following your April start date, focussed full time training to build the technical skills and pensions knowledge so get your Mercer career off to a flying start.
  • Competitive reward package and a fantastic suite of employee benefits including a generous pension contribution, life/health assurance and private medical insurance.
  • Generous flexible benefits including a great holiday allowance, volunteering opportunities and some less "traditional" benefits too.
  • A competitive formal pay structure, with performance rewarded at above market levels as you develop your skills in this exciting, sought-after specialism
  • Opportunity to start studying for professional exams starting in April 2024.
  • Flexible working available as standard.Open positive culture where diversity is valued and celebrated.

What you need to have:

  • You will have achieved a minimum of a 2:1 degree or be on track to achieve this. If your degree discipline is not mathematics-based, you should have a minimum of a grade A mathematics at A level (or equivalent).
  • We will also consider your application if you are a non-graduate with a minimum of 2 years' equivalent industry experience.
  • Legal authorisation to work in the UK on a permanent and ongoing basis without the need for sponsorship now or in the future.
  • To be available to start a new role on 1st April 2023.

Join us:

At Mercer, diversity and inclusion are vital components of our future and our goal is to leverage the unique skillsets that each person brings to the company. We provide all colleagues with a supportive, collaborative environment that leads to innovative ideas and the ability to make an impact. If you thrive on a challenge and enjoy connecting with people, we're looking for you

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