Senior Associate - Pensions
- Recruiter
- PwC
- Location
- Edinburgh
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 20 Oct 2017
- Closes
- 30 Oct 2017
- Sectors
- Banking & Financial Services
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Who we are looking for
The candidate will be operating in a team based in Edinburgh who cover the whole of Scotland. There will be opportunities to visit our other offices (Aberdeen and Glasgow) and to visit client sites as work requires. There may also be opportunities to work with staff in our other offices around the country. The candidate will be part of our Actuarial Pensions Team which provides pensions advice to a wide range of clients - mainly corporates and largely on their defined benefit arrangements however we also advise trustees and cover defined contribution schemes (GPP and trust based).
The successful applicant will have a good grounding in the basics of pension liability calculations and will be keen to use this to develop their consulting skills on a range of different projects through additional training and on the job learning.
About the role
The successful candidate will work with client relationship teams on a wide portfolio of clients and will have day-to-day responsibility for managing these on-going relationships. For a number of our clients, this involves reporting directly to the Senior Manager, Director or Partner on the engagement.
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
Additional information
About Us
About PwC
We're one of the world's leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
Tax
We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we're one of the UK's leading tax practices.
The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
Learn more here
Diversity
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
Learn more here
The candidate will be operating in a team based in Edinburgh who cover the whole of Scotland. There will be opportunities to visit our other offices (Aberdeen and Glasgow) and to visit client sites as work requires. There may also be opportunities to work with staff in our other offices around the country. The candidate will be part of our Actuarial Pensions Team which provides pensions advice to a wide range of clients - mainly corporates and largely on their defined benefit arrangements however we also advise trustees and cover defined contribution schemes (GPP and trust based).
The successful applicant will have a good grounding in the basics of pension liability calculations and will be keen to use this to develop their consulting skills on a range of different projects through additional training and on the job learning.
About the role
The successful candidate will work with client relationship teams on a wide portfolio of clients and will have day-to-day responsibility for managing these on-going relationships. For a number of our clients, this involves reporting directly to the Senior Manager, Director or Partner on the engagement.
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Proactively managing a portfolio of clients, reporting directly to Managers and above.
- Establishing effective working relationships directly with clients and their other advisers.
- Being proactively involved in the financial management of clients.
- Contributing to the development of personal and team knowledge.
- Building your own network of contacts through regular attendance at internal and external meetings.
- Keeping up-to-date with local and national business and economic issues that might potentially impact on clients and /or their industry.
- The Senior Associate will be part of client-service and project teams. As such, managing both junior and more senior members of the team will be essential
Additional information
- Amount of time office based: 90%
- Amount of time at client sites: 10%
- Need to travel/overnight stays away from home: Occasional, depending on client projects.
- Opportunity for flexible working (hours)?: Yes
- Opportunity for working from home?: Occasional, depending on client projects.
- Opportunity for job sharing?: No
- The requirements for the role are as follows:
- Progressing through actuarial exams;
- A commitment to continuing to enhance technical and other knowledge and skills;
- Willingness to take on new and challenging work;
- Risk awareness;
- Excellent team playing skills including helping more junior members of staff to develop;
- Good communication skills;
- Self-motivation; and
- Good organisational and people skills.
About Us
About PwC
We're one of the world's leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
Tax
We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we're one of the UK's leading tax practices.
The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
Learn more here
Diversity
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
Learn more here