Qualified Actuarial Project Consultant

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.  

EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide.

EQs vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

Equiniti, one of the UKs largest Pensions & Benefits Consultancies, are looking to appoint a Fully Qualified Actuarial Project Consultant to their Data Services Team to work within our Regulatory Change portfolio of work.  This is an excellent opportunity for a Qualified Actuary with at least 5 years’ experience in UK DB Consulting sector, to assist in expanding our Actuarial team within Data Services.

Data Services Team

Equiniti Data Services are a team that develop sophisticated in-house analysis, reconstruction and recalculation tools through 15 years of hands-on benefit rectification and contracted-out reconciliation experience. The team has worked with schemes covering over 4.5 million members, including schemes that Equiniti administers and external schemes, across both the public and private sectors.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

• Lead projects or specific projects workstreams including designing, maintaining and monitoring project plans/issues logs and interacting with external clients
• Create complex calculations and write exacting formulae, utilising strong technical actuarial skills
• Providing technical calculation solutions across the regulatory change portfolio, such as GMP Equalisation calculations, missing benefit values to support Pensions Dashboard.
• Prepare accurate documentation of calculation methodology, decisions and assumptions and ensure Quality Assurance checks have been made on completed work
• Guide others in resolving complex issues
• Act as checker/reviewer of complex calculations
• Prepare accurate and clear client reports
• Identify gaps in processes and suggest solutions
• Be able to innovate to improve efficiency or accuracy either by new solutions or building on existing solutions
• Demonstrate commercial awareness including the monitoring of fee budgets
• Line manage a team of India based junior and trainee actuarial consultants
• Provide ongoing training and coaching to colleagues
• Provide support to Managers / Operations Director in areas such as strategy, direction, pricing and resourcing of work
• Escalate appropriate issues to Managers / Operations Director with proposed solutions
• Develop effective working relationships with team colleagues and internal and external business contacts, liaising with other departments as required
• Identify own training needs - seek and act on opportunities to develop technical and business understanding and skills.

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:

• Fully Qualified Actuary with 5 years’ experience in UK DB Pensions Consultancy
• Strong analytical, numerical and decision-making skills
• High level of systems proficiency particularly in Excel and Word, with SQL and/or VBA knowledge an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills including written, verbal and face to face
• Proven track record of delivering benefit calculation and rectification work within the Pensions industry.
• Able to work independently and use initiative
• Ability to deal with complex issues
• Able to work both in the detail of a complex task or at a higher level, depending on the requirements of the task
• Professional and personable and able to build sustainable working relationships
• Ability to manage projects and strong planning and organisational skills to prioritise and organise own workload
• Strong commercial acumen
• Resilient and calm under pressure and able to work flexibly to achieve tight deadlines
• An ability to learn and share learning, and to react positively to change
• Self-motivated and ability to encourage others
• Experience with GMP Equalisation/Rectification would be preferable.

Benefits:

Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

• Business related certification expense reimbursement
• Comprehensive Medical Assurance coverage for dependents & Parents
• Cab transport for staff working in UK & US shift
• Accidental & Life cover 3 times of concerned CTC