Actuarial Consultant (Assistant Manager)

Actuarial Consultant – Assistant Manager

We’re growing and want you to be a part of our journey.

Our Actuarial & Consulting Team

As part of this role, you’ll be working in Isio’s Actuarial & Consulting team – over 400 pensions experts – actuaries and consultants advising a diverse range of clients and stakeholders across the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors.

We advise on everything from helping trustees and sponsors manage their defined benefit plans to running large scale communications projects and implementing alternative reward and pension provision.

The range of work we get involved with is vast, and there’ll be opportunities for you to gain lots of great, new experiences, focus on working towards specialising in particular roles, and put your skills to the test.

What’s the role?

We’re looking for experienced actuarial students with relevant UK DB Pensions industry experience to join our team.

As a challenger in the industry, we are looking for individuals with excellent pensions consulting and technical skills, a commercial outlook, and an entrepreneurial mindset.

Day to day, you will be:

• Playing a key role in the delivery of UK DB Pensions advice to clients – this may include managing key client projects directly, and/or supporting our partners and directors to deliver to our clients.
• Being involved in the technical aspects of projects, which will also involve building relationships with clients directly, working as part of a team, and developing those around you.
• Assisting in the development of new business, both with existing and new clients.
• Leading the advancement of typical projects while supporting junior colleagues within the same team:

• Performing actuarial valuations and calculations for Trustees and advising them on how to run their schemes.
• Developing pensions strategies for corporate, public, and not-for-profit organisations.
• Writing and delivering communications projects for members.
• Providing insurance transaction and scheme consolidation advice.
• Working on data projects such as benefit rectifications, pensions dashboards, and GMP equalisation.

Whatever you’re looking for, we can build a role to suit you and help you develop.

Where is the role?

We can offer a range of locations for you to choose from – we have Isio offices in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Croydon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, and Reading.

We work on a hybrid basis, offering the opportunity for colleagues to split their working time between working in the office and at home.

As a business, we are great at building strong communities amongst our employees – both across locations and teams, hosting regular team building, charity, and social events.

Key skills and experience

We’re looking for new colleagues with the following skills and expertise – but please do apply if you don’t hit every requirement and still think you would be great for the role. Our business is better with a diverse range of experience, so we’ll consider each application on its own merits.

• A great communicator – someone who can explain complex problems in a simple way to help everyone around the table understand.
• Enthusiasm and motivation – a great deal of desire to solve problems and deliver excellent advice.
• Excellent project management and client delivery skills – especially when balancing multiple demands.
• A great team worker – this will be as part of client project teams, in-office teams, and by supporting the development of others.
• Commercial skills – a curious mind, to help us develop our business and look for new opportunities.
• Technical experience – experience of working in the UK DB pensions industry or individuals with relevant transferable actuarial skills.
• Qualifications – likely to be closing in on an actuarial qualification, FIA/FFA, or equivalent. We also value relevant actuarial experience gained via an Apprenticeship, Internship, or Industrial placement programme as beneficial, in addition to the qualifications mentioned.

Demonstrated Commitment to our Core Purpose

• Power in Partnership: We work in partnership with our clients and each other – building open and trusted relationships. Working together allows us to deliver the best for our clients.
• Future Focus: We want to push our industry forward by solving problems in better ways that benefit both our clients and society.
• Strength in Difference: We work with diverse perspectives to find better solutions. Working with differences makes us stronger.
• People First: We recognise that pensions is a people business. People are the source of Isio’s expertise and it is people’s lives that we affect through our advice.

What we offer you

Isio is a people business, and we’re committed to helping our great colleagues gain a wide variety of experience, significant development opportunities, and progression through the business. The variety of work that’ll be available to you will enable you to do this.

About Isio

Isio was ‘born’ in 2020 from the sale of KPMG UK’s Pension Practice to a private equity firm. An industry-leading challenger, we provide diverse expertise spanning Pensions, Investment, Benefits, and Wealth to give clients an integrated experience.

Isio is built by challengers, innovators, and forward-thinkers, grounded around a vision which strives to deliver greater financial confidence for everyone. We empower and develop those who join us – valuing curious minds and giving people the freedom to outperform.

At Isio, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and diverse workplace, in which our colleagues feel they belong, regardless of background or difference. We uphold the values of respect, fairness, and inclusion in our actions and decisions.

We have offices across the UK and many of our roles offer a hybrid, flexible approach to work to help create a work-life balance that works for you. Isio Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.