Pension Scheme Wind Up Consultant

1 week ago

Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Hymans Robertson Full time

About the Role

Hymans Robertson is seeking an experienced Pension Scheme Wind Up Consultant to join our team. As a key member of our Pension Scheme Wind Up Team, you will be responsible for leading clients through their wind-up journey, working with Trustee Boards and Sponsoring Employers of UK defined benefit pension schemes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead on a number of wind-up projects, including being the direct contact for the trustees/working party and liaising with other relevant stakeholders.
  • Provide oversight and direction when planning for and carrying out scheme wind-up projects.
  • Lead (or support) on strategic and technical aspects related to wind-ups, e.g. comparing scheme factors to insurer factors, carrying out winding up lump sum exercises, inputting into funding reserves and providing surplus balance sheets.
  • Prospect for future wind-up cases and help them plan for their end game.
  • Help develop the Scheme wind-ups proposition, build relationships within the team, and share ideas.
  • Deliver training to clients.
  • Consult with client contacts to agree budgets and deadlines for work, ensuring necessary service agreements are in place.
  • Encourage effective communication within client teams to support the delivery of work and understanding of client commercials.
  • Prepare client invoices within internal deadlines and subject to internal procedures.

Practice Development

  • Deliver high-quality advice working within a client team. Work collaboratively as part of the team in the preparation of advice, including reviewing/checking calculations undertaken by more junior team members, and peer review of client work for other colleagues.
  • Understand client needs to provide solutions and develop client accounts.
  • Undertake project work or act as champion for new service initiatives.
  • Pitch for new business and support business development opportunities.
  • Participate in the management, mentoring, and training of more junior staff.
  • Active participation in internal forums to provide input to the strategic direction of the firm.
  • Contribute to the technical knowledge of the practice via continuing professional development and peer review of colleagues' work.

Working Practices

  • Develop internal and external networks.
  • Provide leadership, role modeling, and mentoring to all members of the client team, including helping to proactively identify and uncover client development opportunities and/or potential threats and weaknesses.
  • Manage the delivery of our core services efficiently and in line with agreed utilisation and recovery objectives.
  • Present work in a clear and understandable manner to clients and colleagues as required.
  • Ensure all work is undertaken in a rigorous and methodical manner consistent with professional and internal requirements, and that comprehensive audit trails are maintained.
  • Adhere to the firm's Information Security standards, policies, and procedures.
  • Manage all work on nominated clients to ensure that work is done in a timely, efficient way, and within budget, including maintaining project plans.
  • Keep up-to-date with developments in pensions law and practice.
  • Participate as requested in preparing technical papers for internal and external publications.

Skills and Qualifications Required

  • Ideally, a professional qualification (or part-qualification) in pensions (e.g. APMI, AFPC or IFoA).
  • Ideally holds an Honours Degree.
  • Educated to at least A' level/Scottish Higher level or with demonstrable equivalent experience.

Technical Skills

  • Have some broader experience in areas such as corporate transactions, risk transfer, liability management exercises, pensions aspects of sale agreements, or dealing with the practical aspects of bulk transfers.
  • Have an understanding of related employee benefits issues in order to advise clients on strategy and liaise effectively with other disciplines within the Firm.
  • Experience of operating successfully in a previous consultancy role or else have experience of leading and advising UK pension funds within a complex pensions environment in a Trustee Executive or Pension Scheme Management role.
  • Technical competence and solid understanding of the legislative framework for UK pension schemes, including disclosure requirements and statutory reporting requirements.
  • Strong organisational and analytical skills, with the ability to deal with ambiguity and rapid change.
  • Strong influencing skills and ability to positively and sensitively work with senior stakeholders.
  • Good written communication skills.
  • Ability to align people behind a vision and motivate them to achieve it.
  • Ability to manage multiple stakeholders with varying objectives.
  • Ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems.

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