Senior Actuarial Analyst – Pensions

Overview

In this role you support pensions, bulk annuities and the retirement insurance market by delivering sophisticated actuarial analyses and models. You will work within a high-performing actuarial and analytics team to produce rigorous outputs for complex portfolios. You’ll apply quantitative methods to pension benefits and risk, and contribute to models for bulk annuities and reinsurance. This is a hands-on, client-facing role with a strong emphasis on data quality and cross‑functional collaboration. You will help shape pension solutions in a growing retirement insurance space.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver complex actuarial modelling and analytical projects across pension and retirement insurance portfolios
• Analyse pension benefits, large datasets and member-level calculations to produce accurate actuarial outputs
• Develop and enhance Excel/VBA models and analytical processes
• Perform detailed data validation and quality checks across complex datasets and models
• Manage multiple analytical workstreams and deliver high-quality outputs to demanding deadlines
• Communicate quantitative findings clearly to clients, stakeholders and wider project teams
• Support the development of actuarial models and processes for bulk annuity and reinsurance projects
• Apply quantitative and predictive modelling techniques to insurance and retirement risk

Key requirements

• Experience in pensions consulting, GMP Equalisation, Rectification or related actuarial work
• Strong experience developing and reviewing complex Excel/VBA models
• Experience analysing pension benefits and validating large datasets
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with the ability to manage multiple technical workstreams
• Progress towards actuarial qualification, with relevant IFoA modules passed
• A First-Class Mathematics degree and/or postgraduate qualification in a quantitative discipline
• Experience with R, statistical modelling or machine-learning techniques would be advantageous
• An interest in pensions, reinsurance, bulk annuities and the wider retirement insurance market

• Clear and concise communication
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple technical workstreams
• Excel/VBA modelling
• Data validation and data quality checks
• R and statistical modelling

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