Specialist, US Pension Delivery

Description

• Prepare executive level presentation materials, visualizations, and papers regarding relevant pension and retiree welfare plans.
• Summarize and analyze pension and retiree welfare results and forecasts in a meaningful way, including working with the actuaries to understand results.
• Responsible for analyzing and interpreting large data sets to inform business decision-making and presenting to both technical and non-technical stakeholders across the organization.
• Assist with quarterly meeting material and minutes for various pension and retiree welfare governance committees.
• Collaborate with various pension cross-functional stakeholders to ensure processes supporting the actuarial valuation of pension and retiree welfare liabilities are appropriate and effective.
• Working with a variety of third-party benefits vendors and internal contacts to ensure our programs are running as intended and in accordance with US Regulatory structure and requirements.
• Continuously monitor, track, and refine analytics to enhance their accuracy and relevance over time.
• Gather and validate data from various internal and external sources to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Participating in ad hoc special projects, as needed, including plan design analysis, process improvement initiatives, and mergers/acquisitions due diligence.
• Project management: Assist or lead on various pension, retiree welfare, or governance related projects.

Requirements

• Strong analytical, problem solving, critical thinking and strategic skills.
• Knowledge of legislation and rules governing Retirement Plans in the US, including defined benefit pension plans and retiree welfare plans.
• Considerable project management skills and ability to work within tight deadlines.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to build relationships at all levels within the organization.
• Demonstrates ability to interpret information and analyze relationships among several parts of a problem or situation, in order to clearly articulate the findings and anticipate next steps
• Understands National Grid’s extensive divestiture and acquisition history.
• Demonstrates ability to apply and modify learned concepts appropriately, including executing process improvements where needed.
• This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Math, Actuarial Science, Finance, Accounting, or a related field and a minimum of 5 years of related experience in an applicable field.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentations to various stakeholders.
• Experience with finance and/or accounting concepts.
• Strong organizational skills; ability to multi-task with attention to detail.
• Very strong hands-on knowledge of standard office productivity tools, especially MS Excel (MS Office components, SAP, etc.).
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills, with a proactive approach to stakeholder engagement.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance