Pensions Data Consultant – Defined Benefit Focus (Endgame Readiness)
📍 Location: UK (Hybrid/Flexible)
💼 Working with a leading pensions consultancy
🕓 Experience: Minimum 5 years in pensions actuarial or data consulting
🎓 Qualification: Nearly qualified actuary or someone who has chosen to stop exams
About the Role
We’re working with a leading pensions consultancy whose Pensions Data Services team is expanding rapidly as they strengthen their offering to clients, particularly in the de-risking and endgame space.
They’re seeking an experienced pensions professional with strong technical knowledge of Defined Benefit (DB) schemes to join the team in a client-facing, data-driven consulting role.
This position offers the opportunity to work across some of the industry’s most strategic, high-profile projects, supporting schemes as they prepare for buy-ins, buy-outs, and other key milestones.
Key Responsibilities
In this role, you’ll contribute to and lead on a range of strategic data projects helping pension schemes better understand and manage their data. Typical work includes:
* Supporting data readiness for endgame strategies; including buy-ins, buy-outs, and member option exercises
* Delivering large-scale benefit rectification projects, such as GMP equalisation, GMP rectification, and Barber window extensions
* Leading data cleanse exercises, including benefit tranching and legacy scheme reconstruction
* Reviewing and analysing data to support member communication initiatives or benefit change projects
* Advising clients on data risk, helping shape and implement scheme-level data strategies
You’ll also collaborate with actuarial, administration, and pension risk transfer teams to deliver integrated outcomes, while helping refine internal methodologies and developing innovative tools that enhance project delivery.
Skills & Experience
The ideal candidate will bring:
* Minimum 5 years’ experience within a pensions actuarial or defined benefit consulting environment
* Either nearly qualified as an actuary or having decided to stop exams after significant progress
* Proven experience in DB pensions and pensions data projects (especially GMP or de-risking work)
* Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
* Experience managing multiple, fast-paced workstreams and meeting deadlines
* A collaborative approach with the ability to work effectively across actuarial, administration, and risk transfer teams
* Solid project management and communication skills, with an ability to explain technical findings clearly to clients
Why Apply?
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing team at the centre of major pensions transformation projects, offering exposure to endgame strategy, de-risking, and data excellence initiatives across a wide range of clients.