Senior Financial Controller - Pensions/ Actuary Exp

Summary: The Senior Financial Controller role focuses on managing and coordinating financial operations and risk management for a defined benefit pension scheme. The position requires collaboration with the Head of Pension Risk and involves enhancing control frameworks, reporting, and strategic planning. This is a 6-month contract based in Milton Keynes, requiring on-site presence three days a week. The role is classified as inside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reviewing and enhancing the pensions control framework to ensure alignment with audit expectations
• Reviewing and enhancing the pensions models to ensure alignment with audit expectations
• Work on the monthly, quarterly and annual reporting of the actual Pension accounting and risk information including annual report disclosures
• Support Director of Pensions and Head of Pension risk in preparation, documentation and attendance for the clients statutory and non-statutory committees e.g. Pension Risk Forum, Pensions Committee, ALCO, CF Trustee meetings
• Preparation of pension information for strategic planning purposes (e.g. P21, ICAAP, stress testing)
• Prepare the scheme costs budget working alongside the trustee scheme function. Monitor performance of actuals against budget
• Engage in the day to day relationship with professional advisors. This will include work on the triennial actuarial valuations and audit exercises
• Coordination of the annual review of pensions actuarial assumptions including assessing and recommending any changes to assumptions
• Work with key stakeholders in finance, capital management, scheme trustee and structural risk
• Input into preparing and implementing the Schemes forward looking Business Plans from a Company perspective

Key Skills:

• Solid experience as a Finance Manager
• Experience supporting Pensions Accounts
• Experience working in the Financial Services Sector

Salary (Rate): £550

City: Milton Keynes

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: on-site

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: Finance