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About the Role

KPMG's Pensions Advisory business is expanding its pensions team and seeking talented individuals to deliver high-quality actuarial advice for defined benefit pension schemes, with a focus on both public and private sectors.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic journey planning, risk management, and endgame options for pension schemes.
• Offer strategic funding advice to sponsors and ensure compliance with DB funding codes.
• Conduct pension due diligence for mergers and acquisitions.
• Deliver member education and communication services.
• Advise on benefit changes, design, and implementation.
• Provide guidance on good governance and compliance.
• Offer pensions accounting advice.
• Serve as a key client contact and manage engagements within timelines.
• Gather and query client pension data, reviewing responses.
• Assess the reasonableness of actuarial assumptions and accounting results using KPMG tools.
• Draft and initially review reporting, with senior-level sign-off.
• Maintain open and honest communication within the team.
• Direct and oversee junior team members, including reviewing work and providing coaching.
• Develop junior actuarial colleagues through technical training and skill enhancement.
• Manage financial aspects, including timely billing and debt collection.
• Identify and bill for out-of-scope work.
• Ensure technical actuarial work complies with standards and KPMG quality procedures.

Requirements

• Understand technical actuarial, accounting, and financial reporting standards, pension regulations, and literature.
• Stay current with industry knowledge and leverage KPMG methodologies.
• Utilize firm-approved tools and technology for quality, productivity, and data insights.
• Apply professional skepticism, objectivity, and independence to actuarial and accounting work.
• Maintain complete documentation and audit trails demonstrating a focus on quality.
• Embrace a culture of high challenge and high support, grounded in KPMG Values.
• Operate with a curious and skeptical mindset in daily work.
• Lead and embed a coaching culture to empower team members.
• Be accountable, professional, and act in the public interest.
• Work inclusively and collaboratively with other teams across the firm.
• Experience in pensions actuarial at an employee benefit consultancy or Big 4 firm.
• Basic knowledge of defined benefit pension scheme valuations, roll forward methodologies, and actuarial techniques.
• Good technical understanding of pensions liability calculations.
• Understanding of the wider UK pensions landscape.
• Knowledge of pensions funding and accounting regimes.
• Experience leading and performance managing teams, coaching, and mentoring junior staff.
• Experience on complex projects, including team oversight and stakeholder management.
• Experience delivering benefit change, member options, and end game journey planning.
• Experience advising Trustees/corporates on scheme funding and knowledge of the Pensions Regulator's regime, including the DB scheme funding code and Single Code of Practice.
• IT literate with strong MS Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Highly effective stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Effective problem-solving skills, making pragmatic and logical decisions.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills, with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Effective team working skills, collaborating towards shared goals.

Skills

• Defined benefit pension scheme valuations
• Roll forward methodologies
• Actuarial techniques
• Pensions liability calculations
• UK pensions landscape
• Pensions funding and accounting regimes
• Team leadership and performance management
• Coaching and mentoring
• Complex project management
• Stakeholder management
• Benefit change
• Member options
• End game journey planning
• Scheme funding advice
• Pensions Regulator's regime
• DB scheme funding code
• Single Code of Practice
• MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Stakeholder management
• Relationship building
• Organizational skills
• Time management
• Problem-solving
• Analytical skills
• Numerical skills
• Teamwork

Location

• London Canary Wharf
• Birmingham
• Manchester

Work Type

• Office work
• Working from home
• Flexible hours
• Part-time options

Experience Level

• Assistant Manager
• Part qualified actuary having passed at least 5 of the FIA exams (or equivalent)

Education Level

• Part qualified actuary having passed at least 5 of the FIA exams (or equivalent)

About the Company

• KPMG's Pensions Advisory business is building out its new pensions team.
• KPMG Culture: Being Inclusive.
• KPMG Workability and Disability confidence.