Mercer - Senior Actuarial Specialist/Lead Actuarial Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Act as a checker for complex and non-standard projects

- Provide support on client work to other team members within and outside the team

- Guide and mentor team members on actuarial principles, Mercer's tools and processes and help them identify and address their developmental areas through:

Providing regular feedback on their work

Receiving feedback from them on their developmental areas

Presenting such instances to group leaders and initiating training programs

- Participate in creating training materials and delivery of training sessions

- Support transition of new services/geographies

- Participate in creating training materials and delivery of training sessions/knowledge-sharing sessions

- Participate as a junior member in a Quality project, global committee, or new initiative kickoff

- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for one technical topic throughout the year

- Liaise with Consulting Offices/North American RSCs on technical and project management issues

- Communicate in a clear way that helps address questions instead of leading to more confusion

- Understand project management from a work budget and timing standpoint

Note: Applicants should be comfortable working in 1-10 pm shifts.

Required qualifications and skills:

- Thorough knowledge of pension or PRM and actuarial fundamentals

- Working knowledge of actuarial valuation tools

- Strong EXCEL and Word skills

- Excellent communication and good coaching skills

Education:

- Graduation with Mathematics/Statistics/Actuarial Science or any subject with sizeable mathematical content