Actuary

**Actuary**
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**2204232**

**Description**

**Job Summary**

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**
- Perform valuation services for pension and post-retirement medical plans
- Prepare plan design alternatives for pension and post-retirement medical plans
- Prepare and present key findings to clients and other interested parties
- Perform project tasks independently
- Participate in the development of deliverable content that meets the needs of client
- Anticipate client needs and formulate solutions to client issues
- Prepare deliverables with accuracy and quality
- Provide coaching and mentoring to junior staff
- Manage personal and professional development; seek opportunities for professional growth and expansion of consulting skills and experiences

**Qualifications**

**Knowledge of**
- Advanced statistics, modeling and actuarial software experience (ProVal experience preferred)
- Experience performing benefit calculations
- Proficient in and ability to develop spreadsheets, databases and/or other statistical analysis tools

**Skill in**
- Identifying patterns and trends in complex sets of data to determine the factors that have an impact on outcomes
- Ability to use and develop spreadsheets, databases, and statistical analysis tools
- Excellent researching ability with a focus on synthesizing information to reach a supportable conclusion from varying resources

**Ability to**
- Explain complex technical matters to those without an actuarial background
- Communicate clearly both in writing and verbally describing work and making conclusions and/or recommendations
- Reconcile and validate complex demographic and economic data sets

**Education/Previous Experience**
- Minimum 5 years of experience in relevant field, single employer and multiemployer pension plan actuary experience preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Economics, Statistics or other technical related field

**Licenses/Certifications**
- FSA, ASA, and/or EA actuarial designation or similar
- Member of the American Academy of Actuaries preferred

**Travel Required**:Yes, 10 % of the Time
- About NWPS:_
- Acquired by Raymond James on December 24, 2020, NWPS Holdings, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries doing business as NWPS and Northwest Plan Services provide retirement plan administration services, recordkeeping, consulting, actuarial, compliance and participant services. Based in Seattle, Washington, NWPS provides high-quality service to benefit plan sponsors, participants and advisors and is committed to serving its clients. NWPS has over 1,100 clients nation-wide with 425,000 plan participants and over $45 billion of assets under administration. _
- About Raymond James:_
- RJA is an investment adviser and full-service broker-dealer dually registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. RJA also is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the National Futures Association, and the NYSE. RJA’s services include: private client; institutional equity and fixed income institutional sales; investment banking; trading activities; and operations and administration. RJA employs approximately 3,200 financial advisors through its private client group under RJA’s eponymous “Raymond James & Associates, Inc.” and “Alex. Brown, a Division of Raymond James.”_
- RJA serves as a clearing broker-dealer and custodian for many of our affiliated broker dealer/ investment advisor subsidiaries, including RJFS and RJFSA. Additionally, RJA provides trade execution, custody, and clearing services to non-affiliated registered investment advisers and introducing broker-dealers through its RIA & Custody Services Division (RCS)._

At Raymond James - we honor, value, respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic self, our organization, clients and communities thrive, it is part of our part of our people-first culture. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.

**Job** Investment Management

**Primary Location** US-CA-San Jose-San Jose

**Organization** NWPS

**Schedule** Full-time

**Shift** Day Job

**Travel** Yes, 10 % of the Time

**Eligible for Discretionary Bonus** Yes