Working within a diverse team has helped me diversify my own thought process, and approach challenges in new and unique ways.
Thomas
Actuarial Graduate
Actuarial – Pensions and Investments
A fast-changing world can create a lot of opportunity for businesses, but it also creates new risks. We offer our clients expert-led advice on pension risk. Our teams work within a multi-disciplinary environment across a number of specialist areas, covering a range of industry sectors. The global nature of our business allows our people to develop and grow based on their own personal goals and objectives.
We’re proud to have won the award for The Times ‘Graduate Employer of Choice’ in 2021 for our Actuarial work.
Technology in Actuarial – Pensions and Investments
Technology and innovation are key in delivering solutions to our clients. We use actuarial valuation and liability modelling software to help clients understand their pension risk. We have also developed apps and platforms for clients using Python and "R".
What will you be doing?
- Analysing data to identify trends and insights, communicating with clients, writing reports and presenting your work
- Applying actuarial concepts and modelling techniques to derive EY's view on financial assumptions
- Building proposals for new business pitches
- Completing actuarial audits of pension schemes
- Performing analytics and producing visualisations to support client needs
- Supporting the investment governance and oversight team in selecting, monitoring and researching fiduciary managers
- Carrying out due diligence on the pension aspects in a corporate transaction (merger and acquisitions)
- Providing support on advising clients in relation to their pensions and related risks
Professional qualifications
Fellowship of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
Programme length
Two years. However, we'll provide continued support and training to help graduates to qualify as actuaries, which typically takes 3-5 years in total.
Salary
Competitive
How’s it structured?
After completing the EY induction, you'll jump into the deep end and get involved in live client projects. We'll provide you with the support you need to understand how to analyse client data, spot trends and provide clients with insights. Your team will be on hand to support as you contribute to actuarial audits reviewing company pension accounts, helping to create client reports on the key pensions-related merger and acquisitions risks, helping to assess the current investment structure of our clients' pension schemes and much more.
By your second year, you will be responsible for supporting our new graduates and reviewing their work. You will be taking on more responsibility in your second year by taking on a lead support role on some of your client engagements. You will take a bigger role on projects, with a more client facing role. You may also have the opportunity to work on projects in other actuarial areas (life and non-life insurance) too.
Throughout the programme, you’ll study for actuarial professional exams (supported by a generous allowance) and have many opportunities to join training events and conferences. By the time the graduate programme is over, you’ll have a firm understanding of how to use analysis and modelling techniques in order to understand our clients’ businesses and the issues affecting them. Best of all, you’ll be well on your way to a qualification and gaining the knowledge and experience needed to win business for EY, lead projects and progress to more senior positions.
Rewards and benefits
You want a career that counts. An experience that challenges you. That rewards performance and ultimately defines your future. That's what's on offer at EY. After all, our success is founded on yours.
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