Job Description:
Description
At BUCK Consultants, an ACS Company, you’ll discover an innovative, high-energy environment that inspires top achievement. As a prestigious highly successful leader in providing employee benefit, actuarial, outsourcing and HR management consulting services, we have the strong resources, solid reputation and global reach to enrich your work life and enhance your career.
Summary:
Provides support to Director or Principal, Retirement Actuary in performing actuarial consulting services to clients. Responsible for the timely preparation of all phases of actuarial valuations and projects. Trains, supervises and manages Associates, and Consultants. Ability to work successfully with mid-level client contacts for all types and sizes of clients.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Maintains significant contact with Account Executives in other offices, and possibly clients when requested.
Supervises all phases of actuarial valuations and special projects.
Coordinates and reviews the preparation and results of valuations and cost estimates.
Provides Principal, Retirement Actuary with up-to-date information on status of projects.
Keeps abreast of latest trends and developments in pension actuarial field.
Supervises actuarial staff, including planning, coordinating, directing, and reviewing job duties.
Completes special projects or assignments as instructed by supervisor/manager
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
Education - Bachelor's degree in actuarial science/mathematics or related field required, with master's degree desired.
Experience –at least 5 years of experience in the pension actuarial field.
Actuarial Exams – Designation as Enrolled Actuary or Associate in the Society of Actuaries, or close to obtaining designation.
Co-operation and Teamwork – acts as part of a team, works well with others and respected by coworkers, takes fair share of the workload. An important part of teamwork is communicating with one another – both those who are more junior and those who are more senior on assignments. An effective Senior Consultant must know when to involve people with more experience and must keep senior personnel in the loop, as appropriate. Senior consultants should be able to motivate and train associates, giving frequent constructive feedback and taking primary responsibility for their development. A Senior Consultant must also act to terminate those who we find are not succeeding, in spite of adequate coaching.
Initiative and a sense of responsibility – takes personal responsibility for the timeliness and quality of the work he or she performs and for completing the work within budget. Works directly with Enrolled Actuary or Account Executive, and clients, when applicable, on the nature of assignments and timing; making commitments on behalf of the firm. Acts on new opportunities, accepts challenges and responsibilities. Understands and acts on the need to keep current within the legal, regulatory, and accounting framework and to be abreast of trends (e.g., attends training sessions).
Seeks the big picture – wants to understand the big picture and seeks help to understand it. Uses the tools of the trade – the Internal Revenue Code and regulations for compliance and funding considerations, the Financial Accounting Standards Board Statements and “Q’s and A’s” for financial accounting rules and/or Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statements, and our internal experts.
Integrity – Objective and fair with a strong sense of justice. Not afraid to state minority opinion on a matter. Accepts responsibility for one’s actions. Establishes trust and confidence. Handles confidential information appropriately.
Attention to detail -- Can be trusted to be consistently accurate while not losing sight of the big picture.
Capabilities and Competencies – including:
Supervision of all aspects of the annual actuarial valuation with occasional (appropriate) guidance from more senior staff.
Strong written and verbal communication skills. Able to participate in a client meeting covering topics about which he or she has knowledge and responsibility.
Be fully responsible for organizing, delegating and supervising the work of consultants and senior associates in their competencies noted above.
Within the context of the individual’s knowledge, able to manage a project, including coming up with a plan for getting the work done, directing the work of others and completing the work product on time and within budget.
Able to, with input from those more experienced, manage most special projects for clients. Strong knowledge of ERISA (laws, rules and regulations), financial accounting standards and requirements, actuarial principles and methods and the establishment of appropriate actuarial assumptions.
ACS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, religion/creed, national origin, gender, or sex, marital status, age, disability, use of a guide dog or service animal, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, or any other status protected by Federal or State law or local ordinance. People with disabilities who need a reasonable accommodation to apply or compete for employment with ACS may request such accommodations by calling 866-419-2226 .
