Asst Director

Job Description

At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today's risks into tomorrow's opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they arewith the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. Moody's is transforming how the world sees risk. As a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment, we're advancing AI to move from insight to actionenabling intelligence that not only understands complexity but responds to it. We decode risk to unlock opportunity, helping our clients navigate uncertainty with clarity, speed, and confidence.

If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity.

Skills And Competencies

- Min 5 years of experience working on liability valuations for UK Defined Benefit pension schemes
- Numerate with the ability to follow complex calculations and processes, and carry out detailed analysis
- Pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Ability to work to demanding timescales whilst maintaining high standards
- Willingness to innovate and challenge ideas
- Strong customer focus
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, including the ability to communicate with teams from different backgrounds and levels of seniority
- Experience in VBA and PFaroe DB is desirable but not essential

Education

- BSc (or higher) in a mathematical subject
- Part-qualified IFoA/IAI pension actuary

Responsibilities

The Assistant Director will help with delivering liability valuations, undertaking client facing activities and providing guidance to users on modelling in PFaroe DB. They will also work with the team to produce well considered solutions and to implement them in an efficient and effective way.

Key Responsibilities:

- Running regular liability valuations and checking results for reasonableness
- Quarterly and annual membership data manipulations and checking that changes are reasonable
- Assisting clients with triennial valuations, accounting exercises and ad-hoc work
- Checking junior colleagues work and discussing with senior colleagues
- Training and mentoring junior colleagues and assisting with their development
- Maintain and develop client relationships and responding to client queries
- Developing bespoke solutions to client requirements
- Assist with identifying and implementing automation of existing internal processes
- Help customers with technical queries as and when required
- Participate in client training
- Testing new functionality in PFaroe DB

About The Team

Our Liability Servicing team is responsible for the delivery and servicing of liability valuations for some of the largest defined benefit pension schemes in the UK. The team consists of five members, with the wider Analytics Delivery team consisting of 18 in total. With over 4,400 pension schemes modelled and nearly $2.5tr of AUM, PFaroe DB is a market leading platform delivering a comprehensive suite of pension analytics covering valuations, funding level monitoring, what-if scenario testing, risk analysis, ALM and reporting.

Moody's is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody's Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.