Consultant Job in Halifax B3l2c2, Nova Scotia Canada
Every day, Morneau Shepell improves the financial security, health and productivity of our client organizations and their employees. Whether we are providing consulting or outsourcing services for pensions or benefits, employee assistance programs, occupational health, or disability and attendance solutions, we recognize that our collection of unique, talented people is what drives our success.
Summary of Duties
The incumbent works in a team environment to provide pension consulting services to clients, maintains and develops client relationships, and supervises the work of other team members.
Responsibilities
-Oversees the preparation of actuarial valuations for accounting and funding purposes pension plans and employee benefits upon retirement.
-Does studies to evaluate pension plan structures for new and long-standing clients.
-Attends meetings, produces reports, presentations and plan documents for current and prospective clients
-Maintains excellent relations with client representatives, in-house consultants and administrators with respect to plan provisions and member benefits.
-Works on projects with minimum supervision.
-Supervises less experienced employees and acts as a mentor.
Requirements
-A minimum of five years of relevant pension experience.
-FSA and/or FCIA designation or very near completion of requirements.
-Excellent communication, project management and presentation skills.
-Highly organized self-starter, flexible, and independent.
-Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
-Ability to mentor and coach other team members.
-A good understanding of personal computers and software, particularly MS Office including Visual Basic.
-Bilingual (English and French) an asset.
At Morneau Shepell, we give our employees opportunities to work on challenging and varied assignments. Moreover, you will be given the opportunity to update your knowledge of pension plan administration by participating in interesting training sessions offered by Morneau Shepell. The open-area concept of our office provides spacious work stations and facilities. Our goal is to have our employees get up in the morning energized by the thought of coming to work in a friendly, receptive environment where fresh thinking is encouraged. We want them to feel excited about the challenges and opportunities they are offered, and to channel their energy into providing the highest level of service to our clients. In short, we want Morneau Shepell to be a place where talented people like coming to work.
This position will be open until December 5th 2011.