We are an award-winning Pensions Consultancy with over 1400 staff in 16 locations across the UK. We provide a positive working environment with an emphasis on training and development, and we put relationships at the very heart of our business. You can expect an exciting and fulfilling career in a growing business and an industry that provides a consistent challenge.
This role will be based/attached to one of the below offices however, flexible working arrangements for this role will be considered and can be discussed at interview. You can find out further information here.
Assessment Centres to be held remotely 13th and 16th December 2021.
The role
As a graduate with the largest pure pensions consultancy in the UK, you’ll be exposed to a variety of work with a range of clients and won’t be constrained by hierarchies. You won’t just be crunching the numbers, you’ll be delivering the advice and seeing it implemented. You’ll be doing detailed calculations and developing high-level checking systems. You’ll be utilising our industry-leading models and designing your own. You won’t just be working in one team, you’ll be working with a range of different people and different departments.
You be working as part of a team to assist clients solve their challenges and best meet their objectives. This includes but is not limited to:
The person
We are looking for a graduate that will excel in this advisory role. This requires excellent communication skills, a passion to learn about actuarial concepts together with drive and enthusiasm.
We want someone who is unafraid to express a view and can express their view clearly, thereby contributing to the ideas we rely on to achieve our aims.
We want to help you reach your potential and be the best that you can be. By joining XPS you will be involved in a wide variety of work. You’ll be supported by on-the-job training, resulting in you developing your knowledge and abilities quickly.
In addition, we will support you through an apprenticeship scheme to complete the actuarial (IFoA) exams.
We know that it’s a real challenge completing professional qualifications whilst progressing in a new job, so we’ll help you every step of the way - we’ll equip you with study materials and time to study.
We will of course pay you an attractive salary alongside a broad range of other benefits which you can shape to reflect your circumstances.
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate the following requirements:
About the Business Area/Department
Our mission is to help our clients manage the complex issues which impact their pension scheme in a pragmatic and understandable way. Communication is a key part of this.
We advise Trustees and Corporate clients on a wide range of actuarial-related areas, including:
We are very ambitious and want to continue our strong growth. As part of this we are committed to developing market leading tools and approaches for our clients. For example, our online funding software ‘Radar’ has been awarded Actuarial Software of the Year for the last two years.
Some of the XPS Pension Group’s recent awards
We offer an attractive reward package, including:
The working week is Monday to Friday from 9am until 5.15pm (36.25) with 1 hour off for lunch.
XPS Pensions Group is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages application from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
Please note we reserve the right to close our vacancies early.