Hcb - Valuation Sme

**Job Summary**

As an actuarial analyst, you will need good numerical and communication skills, the ability to plan work effectively and a strong desire to solve technical problems. You will learn what we do for our clients as you build strong working relationships, participate, and actively engage in training sessions, developing valuable skills from day one.
This is a consulting support role where you will work as part of a team on a wide variety of complex projects serving as a key resource for our diverse UK based client teams.

**Principal Duties/Responsibilities**
- Complex data manipulation
- Calculating and valuing the benefits of individual members
- Pension scheme valuations
- Accounting disclosures
- Cross-departmental projects.
- Partner with the Team Leader on managing projects, training and supervision of junior associates
- Successfully manage own workload while proactively resolving conflicting priorities or other workload issues within the team.
- Develop a trusted advisor relationship with service center client teams through effective communication and efficient, quality execution of projects.
- Manage expectations and raise appropriate issues to internal and consulting office project managers.
- Contribute to the development of new tools and approaches
- Contribute to profitability by completing budget spreadsheets, monitoring own time spent on project, seeking ways to enhance efficiency and maintaining accurate time records
- Identify opportunities to enhance quality and/or improve processes to reduce costs
- Meet production hours as expected by the business
- Manage projects and leverage resources to produce quality deliverables on time and within budget
- Serve as a mentor and provide technical guidance to junior associates.

**Additional Responsibility -**
- Responsibility of building the technical competence of the team, pro-actively supporting team members’ learning and career development
- Primary point of contact for the team with UK based Hub Managers and Operations Managers, responding to all requests and communications effectively and efficiently.
- Providing input to continuous improvement and process confirmation processes.

**Training & Required Qualifications, Skills, Knowledge, Experience**

**Training**:

- You will participate in a 24-36-month structured development programme where you will be provided with on-the-job training consisting of a mix of classroom sessions, eLearning, webinars, recorded videos, self-study and reading. Upon successful completion of the programme, there is potential to progress into specialist or technical roles.

**Qualifications**:

- Graduation / Post Graduation Degree required, in a program with heavy emphasis on mathematics, statistics or economics
- 3 - 5 CT exams passed from IFOA / IOA institute and the recent one with in the last two years with clear progress shown towards becoming an actuary

**Experience**:

- 18+ months of experience in performing and checking core valuation work in a client-service oriented environment with large corporate defined benefit plans
- Must have experience with funding valuations, accounting expense valuations or manual calculations
- Experience in checking and providing development feedback to analysts

**Skills**:

- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Client focus
- Strong analytical and interpretational skills including ability to draw conclusions and identify trends from data in a logical, systematic way
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Access and Excel, Visual Basic experience preferable
- Adept at successfully managing multiple projects within specified guidelines
- Strong leadership qualities
- Ability to prioritize and organize tasks, accomplish within stipulated timelines

**Knowledge**:

- In-depth knowledge of Pension Valuations
- Good knowledge of valuation tools and systems