Technical Actuary; Post-Transaction

We are looking for a Technical Actuary to join our Post-Transaction team, providing technical leadership and high-quality actuarial support across our portfolio of Bulk Purchase Annuity (BPA) schemes.

Job Type: Permanent

Location: London or Edinburgh. We support hybrid working, with an expectation of spending two days each week in the office.

Flexible working:All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.

Salary and benefits: From £60,000 depending on experience, plus a discretionary bonus, private medical cover, 38 days’ annual leave, an excellent pension, life assurance of 12 times salary, income protection, career breaks, three volunteering days and much more.

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We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.

Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards.

We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.

This is a key technical role supporting our portfolio of BPA schemes. You will work across the full post-transaction journey, from reviewing benefit specifications through to buy-out and beyond.

You will help shape our approach to member option calculations and lead the delivery of these and other technical actuarial work for trustee clients and policyholders.

You will work closely with colleagues across Pricing, Transition and Data Services, as well as scheme advisers, trustees and outsourced partners.

This is an opportunity to work with a variety of pension schemes, lead important actuarial work streams and make a visible contribution to the continued development of our processes and technical capability.

• Play a leading role in supporting schemes through the buy-in and buy-out journey, with particular focus on delivering and overseeing member option calculations.
• Interpret transaction benefit specifications and help ensure that member options and benefits are calculated accurately and consistently.
• Work with scheme advisers, trustees, outsourced administrators and internal teams to support a consistent end-to-end member option journey.
• Support schemes with the implementation of Standard Life actuarial factors during buy-in.
• Review actuarial calculations completed by administrators during buy-in, including transfer values, retirement quotations and projections.
• Oversee the transition of member option calculations from the incumbent administrator to Standard Life at buy-out.
• Review factor assumptions across the BPA scheme portfolio.
• Provide technical expertise on complex actuarial matters, including GMP equalisation and complex individual member calculations.
• Lead or support actuarial work streams within wider projects, working collaboratively to resolve complex technical issues.
• Maintain proportionate governance through appropriate audit trails, version control and review processes.
• Monitor relevant legislative and market developments and assess their potential impact on actuarial calculations and the wider proposition.