Company:
Mercer
Description:
What you can expect:
Mercer is a global leader in consultancy and provides actuarial, investment, risk, and strategic advice to a wide range of clients across multiple industries. By linking actuarial insight and portfolio implementation, Mercer helps clients to manage their financial outcomes by building and executing truly integrated solutions.
This exciting role involves providing strategic and actuarial advice to trustees and employers in relation to their pension plans and overall benefit strategy, and offers a wide variety of exposure and career opportunities, including:
- Managing a client portfolio and developing close relationships with trustee groups and corporate clients;
- Working within a team to provide pro-active strategic advice on a wide range of pension and benefit related issues;
- Helping to develop Mercer’s overall service delivery in key growth areas;
- Developing and strengthening the individual’s consultancy skills and pensions industry & multinational client knowledge as part of an engaging and market leading team
What you will be rewarded with:
Our employees enjoy excellent benefits such as:
- Competitive salary with annual review
- Up to 12% pension contribution
- Full healthcare cover
- Study Support
- Flexitime or flexistart
- Flexible working/potential to work from home
- Sports & Social clubs/Wellness Programme
- Paid annual leave and ability to purchase additional leave days
- Travel ticket/bike to work/dental are optional
- Subsidised canteen
We will rely on you for the following:
The role can be tailored to an individual’s strengths and will facilitate the development of skills and experience over time, with a view to covering the following areas:
- Provide strategic advice to a diverse range of trustees and employers.
- Contribute to the development of new solutions.
- Oversee the day to day management and development of important client relationships.
- Manage the delivery of key client projects to deadlines and budgets.
- Take a lead role at client meetings.
- Develop technical actuarial solutions and assist in the production of actuarial valuations.
- Develop in-depth knowledge of Mercer’s best ideas and solutions in order to provide valuable advice and communicate effectively with clients.
- Liaise with colleagues across teams and business lines to achieve successful outcomes for clients.
- Be responsible for the training and development of junior colleagues.
- Help drive revenue growth through the development of existing solutions and the successful introduction of new solutions.
- Deliver results against own personal and business targets.
What you will need to have:
- Third level qualification with a strong academic track record.
- Proven ability to deliver excellent client service and build strong working relationships with clients and colleagues.
- Comfortable in a client facing role, with experience presenting and managing client meetings.
- Strong project management skills.
- Proven ability to manage simultaneous projects and to meet multiple deadlines.
- An understanding of market developments, pension themes, and the key issues facing our clients.
- Proactive and goal orientated.
- Possess a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
What makes you stand out:
- Would suit a nearly/newly qualified actuary or someone with/working towards another relevant professional qualification.4+ years of relevant experience.
MERCER
Mercer believes in building brighter futures by redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and well-being. Mercer’s more than 25,000 employees operate in over 130 countries. In Ireland, Mercer employs over 500 employees in offices based in Dublin and Cork. Mercer is a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people, with more than 85,000 colleagues and annual revenue over $20 billion. Through its market-leading businesses including Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer
and Oliver Wyman, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment. For more information, visit Mercer. Follow Mercer on Twitter @Mercer.
We embrace a culture that celebrates and promotes the many backgrounds, heritages and perspectives of our colleagues and clients regardless of their gender expression or identity, marital or civil partnership status, ethnic origin, nationality, age, background, disability, sexual orientation or beliefs. We are proud of our inclusive culture where everyone feels empowered to bring their whole selves to work and thrive.