As a Pension Consultant, your role will include leading your clients through their Buy-out and wind-up journey working with both Trustee Boards and Sponsoring Employers of UK defined benefit pension schemes.
You would be a key member of the Buy-out and Wind-Up Transaction Services team, bringing together key stakeholders and advisers. Your focus will be on delivery of advice to clients; building relationships with key decision makers to help with managing projects, and coaching and managing less experienced members of the teams.
The ideal candidate will have experience of consulting with pension schemes either in Trustee Executive, actuarial or scheme management roles or working with an insurer on buy out transactions. You will need to have a significant understanding of the pensions management space with a track record of client facing roles and some experience in new business and wider pensions consulting would be desirable. You will work closely with others involved in this area of pensions wind up and receive support from a wider team for each scheme.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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