Location: Vancouver

PBI Actuarial Consultants Ltd. is currently seeking an Actuarial Analyst to join our Vancouver team.

About us

PBI is an employee-owned Canadian firm. It is based in Vancouver and it also operates an office in Montreal and Toronto.

PBI is a firm that specializes in providing pension, benefit and investment consulting services for private and public sector, multi-employer and jointly trusteed pension plans and benefit plans. For more information about PBI, please see our website:  www.pbiactuarial.ca.

A unique work environment

PBI’s work philosophy is based on open-mindedness and the active involvement of all its associates.

In fact, our company encourages growth both in a personal and professional level inside a healthy, respectful learning environment. More specifically, our core values are cooperation, self-sufficiency for teams as well as individuals, dedication towards our clients and our Company, development of skills, confidentiality, efficiency, creativity, thoughtful decision-making, precision and synergy.

Tasks and responsibilities

To fulfill this role, the individual will:

• Produce and/or review pension benefit calculations or any other documents pertaining to pension plan administration
• Produce and/or review extended health and dental, short/long term disability and life insurance calculations or any other documents pertaining to benefit plan administration
• Complete and/or review asset and data reconciliations
• Prepare and validate membership data to be used for actuarial valuations for pension/benefit plans
• Prepare actuarial valuations for pension/benefit plans including gain and loss analysis
• Program and develop liabilities using actuarial principles including running test cases
• Value liabilities under various plan design scenarios and for special costings
• Collect and analyze plan experience data for input into assumptions
• Assist in financial monitoring of client benefit plans
• Assist in analysis of annual benefit plan renewals
• Communicate with clients and external providers on day-to-day benefit administration issues
• Draft reports, presentations and other various internal or client documents
• Interpret and apply pension plan texts, administrative policies and related legislation
• Provide assistance for any related work or special project including industry surveys and benchmarking studies
• Develop routine client correspondence

Qualifications

• University degree in actuarial science, statistics, mathematics or finance
• Desire to qualify as an ACIA or FCIA
• Proficient in computer software such as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience with VBA, R, Python or SQL would be highly advantageous
• Knowledge of business intelligence software like Power BI, Qlikview or Tableau
• Demonstrates attention to detail and is well organized
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Other qualities

• Strong written and spoken communication skills
• Able to manage priorities and work on several simultaneous projects within strict deadlines
• Strongly dedicated to keeping clients satisfied
• Able to easily adapt in a new work environment
• Is a team player, yet is self-sufficient and shows initiative

Terms and conditions of employment

• Permanent position
• 40-hour weekly schedule
• Salary will be based on experience and our internal policy in force
• Enrolment in extended health benefits and company pension plan
• Enrolment in PBI’s actuarial exam program which covers exam and study material costs as well as providing study time support
• Starting date: March 1, 2021, or earlier

Those who would like to apply must send their resume along with a cover letter to Laura Grant:

By email:    

Deadline:    February 5, 2021