Pensions Actuarial Consultant

3 days ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom KPMG-UnitedKingdom Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Pensions Actuarial Consultant to join our team at KPMG-UnitedKingdom. As a key member of our pensions actuarial team, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality actuarial pensions advice to clients in the public sector and private sector.

Key Responsibilities
  • Deliver strategic journey planning, risk management, and endgame options, including the use of surplus.
  • Provide strategic funding advice to sponsors and advice on compliance with DB funding code.
  • Conduct pension due diligence on mergers and acquisitions.
  • Provide member education and communication.
  • Offer advice on benefit change, benefit design, and implementation.
  • Provide advice on good governance and compliance.
  • Offer pensions accounting advice.
Key Skills and Qualifications
  • Gain understanding of defined benefit pension schemes and actuarial liability calculations.
  • Gain understanding of accounting for pensions.
  • Analyze client data and information using actuarial techniques and central models.
  • Produce technical actuarial work in line with actuarial standards and KPMG quality procedures.
  • Run checks to assess reasonableness of actuarial assumptions and accounting results.
  • Use outputs to generate initial draft reports/emails.
  • Support team in day-to-day running of cases, including general administration and tracking of procedures versus timeline.
  • Develop specialist technical knowledge.
  • Maintain regular, open, and honest communication with the team.
Technical Core Competencies
  • Understands relevant technical actuarial, accounting, and financial reporting standards, pension regulations, public service pension scheme, LGPS funding methodologies, and literature.
  • Exhibits and stays current on appropriate industry and specialized knowledge, and leverages KPMG methodologies.
  • Uses firm-approved tools and innovative technology solutions to increase quality, productivity, and data insights.
  • Applies professional scepticism, objectivity, and independence to pensions actuarial and accounting work.
  • Completes documentation and audit trails demonstrating an unwavering focus on quality and in line with the actuarial standards.
People & Culture
  • Embrace and embed our culture ambition of high challenge, high support, which is grounded in Our Values.
  • Operate with a curious and sceptical mindset, ensuring that this is embedded in your everyday work.
  • Actively lead and embed a coaching culture to get the best out of others in an environment where everyone in the team feels empowered to speak up or challenge where appropriate.
  • Be accountable, professional, and act in the public interest, working for the benefit of shareholders of audited entities and wider society.
  • Be inclusive and embrace the opportunity to work with other teams across the firm in an integrated way.
Experience and Knowledge Requirements
  • Experience of working in pensions actuarial at either an employee benefit consultancy or other Big 4 firm.
  • Basic knowledge of defined benefit pension scheme valuations, roll forward methodologies, LGPS funding methodologies, and actuarial techniques.
  • Understanding of the wider UK pensions landscape.
  • IT literate with sound knowledge and experience of MS Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word).
Behavioural Attributes and Skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to communicate complex matters in a clear and compelling manner.
  • Highly effective stakeholder management and relationship building skills; credible and confident with stakeholders at all levels.
  • Strong organisational and time management skills; able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with conflicting priorities and deadlines.
  • Self-driven and resilient; able to thrive in a high-pressure environment.
  • Effective problem solver: makes pragmatic and logical decisions, drawing on own and others' technical expertise to provide high-quality solutions.
  • Strong analytical and numerical skills; able to analyze and interpret complex technical statistical information, with a focus on quality, attention to details, and accuracy in calculations.
  • Effective team working skills; works collaboratively with others towards shared goals.
Qualifications
  • Undergraduate degree with a mathematical/financial nature.
  • Part-qualified actuary having passed some FIA exams (or equivalent).

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