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I am a UK-based qualified actuary, working since 2009 as a consultant providing advice to defined benefit pension schemes. This has included working for a range of pension schemes in different industry sectors and of varying size and maturity, and providing advice to both trustees and corporate clients.My experience and interests cover areas such as:- Actuarial and consulting software. I currently have UK-wide responsibility for the ongoing development and delivery of Willis Towers Watson’s transfer value calculation software, Pension Valuer - Transfer Module, which forms a core part of our client solution for GMP equalisation. In the past I have held local office responsibility for Willis Towers Watson’s Sharepoint-based content-sharing portal for clients, OnePlace.- Process improvement. I lead teams with the responsibility of developing, promoting, and implementing efficient and consistent internal processes across our UK Retirement practice to deliver two of our core services to clients: individual member calculations, and Pension Valuer (our suite of tools providing a GMP equalisation solution for UK pension schemes)- Individual member calculations, including transfer values, retirement quotations, AA and LTA calculations, with strong knowledge of relevant statutory checks and anti-franking requirements.- Risk management and incentive exercises, including carrying out bulk trivial commutation exercises, enhanced transfer value exercises, pension increase exchange, and buy-ins.- Funding and valuation advice, including involvement at all stages of the triennial actuarial valuation process, journey planning, de-risking, and regular monitoring.- Communicating complex ideas in simple language, both to client and to members of pension schemes. In particular, I have previously worked on a number of benefit change projects as a helpdesk operative responding directly by phone and email to individual member queries about complex changes to their employment benefits.- Pension accounting disclosures for UK companies under IAS19, FRS102 and ASC715 for both UK accounts and to feed into consolidated results for global organisations.- Valuing share-based awards offered by companies to their employees. In the past I have worked on a small specialist team performing fair value calculations under IFRS2 for share-based award schemes.

Listed skills include Pension Schemes, Pensions, Defined Benefit, Actuarial Consulting, and 7 others.