BUCK - A 104 - year - old firm that is JUST GETTING STARTED. 

Actuarial Analyst - Graduate (Retirement Consulting

Location: Edinburgh, Ipswich or Remote / home based with travel.

At Buck, we’re focused on helping our clients create a culture of wellbeing, centered around the evolution of each person’s health, wealth, and career.  

Leveraging strong client relationships with key decision makers, our teams deliver exceptional results that confidently push the envelope with unexpected solutions to help our clients accomplish their objectives faster and keep them ahead of the curve.

Not surprisingly, we embrace inventive thinkers, who make original contributions to the team. We put people first — our people and our clients’ people, and our inclusive and welcoming culture celebrates diversity and individuality.

Explore your next career move with Buck today!

In the UK pensions market, we offer high quality actuarial consulting, investment strategy advice, and outsourced pensions management services to our defined benefit and defined contribution clients.

Our Retirement practice provide a wide range of actuarial consulting services to trustees and sponsors of UK pension schemes. We partner closely with our clients, building long-term trusted relationship by working with them to provide a complete solution to their pension scheme issues.

We are innovative, proactive and pragmatic. We help trustees and sponsors to focus on the things that can really make a difference. Our clear way of communicating helps our clients to make quick but informed decisions.

At Buck we advise our Trustee and Sponsors on how to value, fund and manage the risk & liabilities of their pension schemes in compliance with their legal and regulatory responsibilities.

As a Graduate Actuarial Analyst, you will join an excellent multi-disciplined team providing clients with market leading, tailored solutions.  

Our Actuarial Analyst programme provides candidates with a choice of qualifications and a pathway for them to decide where they want their career to go next.

You will find that no two days at work are the same. As you start your career with Buck, you will be offered the opportunity to participate in the full range of work across our retirement practice and a variety of clients.

Based in one of our Retirement Practice offices in Ipswich or Edinburgh, you will work alongside colleague at different levels, from second-year Analysts to Scheme Actuaries and Senior Consultants. 

At Buck we will provide you with every opportunity to succeed in an organisation that is supportive, collaborative, and is committed to promoting a diverse & inclusive environment where we’re able to be ourselves and work successfully together.

• Strong educational background – Honours degree (minimum 2.1), MSc or PhD in any discipline;
• A level’s, Scottish Highers, or equivalent; including Mathematics at grade A;
• GCSE’s, Scottish N5 or equivalent; minimum B in English language;
• Highly analytical with the ability to understand what we do – attention to detail to understand the wider context of the work being done;
• Learning agility – eager and quick to pick up on methodology and market trends on a steep learning curve;
• Thriving in ambiguity– accept the unknown; persevering and adapting to serve our clients;
• Building relationships - being a strong team player and engaging in active communication with the team and clients.

Buck will fully fund several different professional study pathways including Actuarial qualifications – FIA / CAA for all our graduates within our Retirement Practice.

Why join Buck:

• Excellent client exposure from day one – we are looking for an experienced individual who is comfortable owning and leading client relationship.
• Unrivalled Leadership team – Our Retirement practice is led by experienced ‘’functional experts’ who are all qualified member of the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries Institute (IFoA).
• Our Pedigree - we are an industry leading mid-tier Consultancy with a history dating back over 104 years.
• Diversity of Clients – we work with leading UK and International corporations, across a variety of sectors and industries, where no two are the same!
• We are Client focused – unlike some of our competitors, we offer bespoke and tailored solutions to our clients, not a one size fits all solution.
• Your Career is our motivation – working as part of a small but highly collaborative team, you get the level of responsibility and client exposure rarely experienced working for some of our larger competitors. At Buck, we pride ourselves on providing excellent support at all level to drive your ambitions and career development goals.
• Our commitment to you as a Buck employee – we offer a competitive base salary & comprehensive benefits package; are committed to providing a highly collaborative, stimulating, sociable working environment and are committed to flexible working and diversity & inclusion.

What we offer:

As an established company with a start-up mentality we know that our employees are key to our success. We offer a comprehensive remuneration package while taking into consideration aspects such a flexible working and factors key to a good work life balance.

What we offer:

• Highly competitive salary;
• Minimum 25 days Annual leave (excluding Bank holidays) plus Holiday trading - (10 days – buy option) or (5 days – sell option);
• Private Medical cover including partner / spouse and children;
• Health-checks / Screening
• Excellent Defined Contribution pension provisions;
• Comprehensive Life Assurance coverage;
• Vision Plan;
• Company bonus scheme:
• Interest free season ticket loan;
• Gym subsidy;
• Child-care Vouchers
• Additional flexible benefits Scheme to support you and your family in and out of work encompassing; Health & Wellbeing, Protection and Lifestyle covering; additional Life assurance, Travel insurance, Dental insurance, Medical Cash plan, Critical Illness cover plus many more.

At Buck, we pride ourselves in our Diversity and Inclusion and are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable UK law.

We are exclusively focused on helping our clients and their people succeed together. By this, we mean we’re partnering with some of the world's most forward-thinking companies to re-envision and re-design the way that employees work and live. And we’re doing this by finding the right combination of consulting, outsourcing, and technology solutions to help our clients realize the best organizational performance for their businesses while driving positive health, wealth, and career outcomes for their people.

BUCK - A 104 - year - old firm that is JUST GETTING STARTED. 

Pensions Implementation Analyst

Location: Bristol, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Ipswich, Derby or Remote / home based with travel.

At Buck, we’re focused on helping our clients create a culture of wellbeing, centered around the evolution of each person’s health, wealth, and career.  

Leveraging strong client relationships with key decision makers, our teams deliver exceptional results that confidently push the envelope with unexpected solutions to help our clients accomplish their objectives faster and keep them ahead of the curve.

Not surprisingly, we embrace inventive thinkers, who make original contributions to the team. We put people first — our people and our clients’ people, and our inclusive and welcoming culture celebrates diversity and individuality.

Explore your next career move with Buck today!

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Pensions Implementation Analyst to join our Pensions Outsourcing Practice. 

You will be working within a team of implementation Analysts to deliver a high-quality implementation service for new Buck clients and on projects for existing clients.

Our Pensions Implementation team is responsible for the configuration, testing and implementation of new pensions schemes, process and procedure into the Buck infrastructure, including legislative changes, ongoing maintenance and new developments.

It is an exciting time to be joining Buck due to the continued growth of Pensions Outsourcing practice, and crucial to our continued success is ensuring a smooth service delivery to our clients, where our implementation teams are critical to getting things Right!

• Actively participate in the delivery of new client’s projects;
• Program calculations and other automated facilities that allow the profitable administration of client schemes;
• Modify and loading of critical data;
• Update parameters for the suite of applications, including the pension portal and modellers;
• Ensure adherence to departmental service standards including the use of UAT systems and sign-off procedures;
• Specify and test enhancements to systems and processes;
• Create and develop bespoke functionality in line with system specifications;
• Peer review and ensure own work is peer reviewed as appropriate;
• Acquire high-level knowledge of legislation and system functionality within the pension, payroll and treasury areas. Develop leadership attributes as required for progression;
• Provide system demonstrations to new and existing clients, working with them to define requirements as necessary;
• Positively contribute to the effectiveness of the Implementation department so that it can provide a quality service to the administration practice.

• Proven Pension systems implementation experience;
• Understanding of benefit administration systems;
• Experience of complex data manipulation;
• Ability to work productively as a team member and experience of working in a project team;
• MS Office (Word / Excel / Access) to advanced level;
• Good communication skills essential, both verbal and written;
• Experience in interpretation of benefit systems specifications and proforma leading to preparation of benefit systems functionality;
• Experience of complex data mapping documentation;
• The ability to understand pension benefit calculation test cases and experience of testing functionality.

Highly desirable but not essential:

• Pensions calculations knowledge is highly desirable;
• SQL, Visual Basic, C# and .NET experience.

Why join Buck:

• Excellent client exposure from day one – we are looking for an experienced individual who is comfortable owning and leading client relationship.
• Unrivalled Leadership team – Our Retirement practice is led by experienced ‘’functional experts’ who are all qualified member of the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries Institute (IFoA).
• Our Pedigree - we are an industry leading mid-tier Consultancy with a history dating back over 104 years.
• Diversity of Clients – we work with leading UK and International corporations, across a variety of sectors and industries, where no two are the same!
• We are Client focused – unlike some of our competitors, we offer bespoke and tailored solutions to our clients, not a one size fits all solution.
• Your Career is our motivation – working as part of a small but highly collaborative team, you get the level of responsibility and client exposure rarely experienced working for some of our larger competitors. At Buck, we pride ourselves on providing excellent support at all level to drive your ambitions and career development goals.
• Our commitment to you as a Buck employee – we offer a competitive base salary & comprehensive benefits package; are committed to providing a highly collaborative, stimulating, sociable working environment and are committed to flexible working and diversity & inclusion.

What we offer:

As an established company with a start-up mentality we know that our employees are key to our success. We offer a comprehensive remuneration package while taking into consideration aspects such a flexible working and factors key to a good work life balance.

What we offer:

• Highly competitive salary;
• Minimum 25 days Annual leave (excluding Bank holidays) plus Holiday trading - (10 days – buy option) or (5 days – sell option);
• Private Medical cover including partner / spouse and children;
• Health-checks / Screening
• Excellent Defined Contribution pension provisions;
• Comprehensive Life Assurance coverage;
• Vision Plan;
• Company bonus scheme:
• Interest free season ticket loan;
• Gym subsidy;
• Child-care Vouchers
• Additional flexible benefits Scheme to support you and your family in and out of work encompassing; Health & Wellbeing, Protection and Lifestyle covering; additional Life assurance, Travel insurance, Dental insurance, Medical Cash plan, Critical Illness cover plus many more.

At Buck, we pride ourselves in our Diversity and Inclusion and are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable UK law.

We are exclusively focused on helping our clients and their people succeed together. By this, we mean we’re partnering with some of the world's most forward-thinking companies to re-envision and re-design the way that employees work and live. And we’re doing this by finding the right combination of consulting, outsourcing, and technology solutions to help our clients realize the best organizational performance for their businesses while driving positive health, wealth, and career outcomes for their people.