Associate Director, Pension Actuary, Assurance

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The Actuarial, Pensions and Rewards Practice within the Audit and Assurance Line is a rapidly growing team of actuaries, employee benefits specialists and modelling experts. The team provides audit and assurance services to trustees and corporate sponsors of pension schemes. With over 200 years’ collective experience and an ambitious five‑year growth plan, we are currently seeking new members of staff to work within our pensions team.

From the outset, you’ll enjoy exposure to a broad and varied client base, enabling you to increase your market knowledge across a wide range of industries.

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

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• Independently testing pensions liability calculations and benchmark of proposed assumptions for corporate accounts.
• Investigating and challenging the actuarial assumptions and methodologies used by corporate actuarial advisors.
• Preparing and reviewing audit documentation.
• Presenting our findings to Deloitte Audit teams, corporate pension managers, financial controllers, finance directors and/or audit committees.
• Working on wider pensions, reward, HR and analytics projects from time to time.
• We take your development very seriously. Our appraisal process is structured, transparent and interactive - you’ll receive continuous training and on-going supportive feedback to achieve the goals that you set yourself. And with no glass ceilings, you will be able to make a difference here by really influencing and shaping the strategic direction of our practice.

• Be FIA, FFA, AIA or AFA qualified or be making good progress towards an actuarial qualification or equivalent;
• Experience of delivering defined benefit pension work streams or projects, in a consulting or in‑house environment;
• Trustees and/or corporate sponsors;
• Excellent facilitation and communication skills;
• Experience of managing client relationships;
• Solid team leadership experience;
• Advanced level of Microsoft Excel.

• Knowledge of coding software (e.g. VBA, R and/or Python) is desirable but not essential.

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your “Immediate Family Members” are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.)

with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

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