PwC Hiring for Employee Benefits Consultant, Senior Manager at London Full Time

We help our clients stay ahead of changes that impact their businesses, navigating complexity and risk. We deliver deep tax technical, people and legal expertise, while providing the critical context to make informed and compliant decisions. With clients ranging from multinational organisations and public sector bodies to entrepreneurs and family businesses, the work we do is diverse.

Our Employee Benefits team sits within our People and Organisation (P&O) network, as part of our wider Tax and Legal practice. P&O is built up of specialist teams who provide advice and support to manage organisational and people challenges, delivering tailored solutions to each of our clients. As part of the Employee Benefits team, you’ll help clients ensure that their benefits and the way their employees are provided for is aligned to corporate strategy, is cost effective and best supports employee wellbeing, performance and retention. You’ll experience an unique opportunity to develop your career as you support corporate clients in a variety of ways, helping them solve complex and technical issues as well as advising on the overall design/provision of their benefits offering

The role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our rapidly growing team as a Senior Manager in our employee benefits team of specialists, working closely with our Pension consulting, Reward & Employment and Global Mobility teams.

As part of the team you’ll be actively encouraged to consult, to share specialist knowledge and new ideas as we continue to innovate to deliver best in class service.

This role can be based from any of our UK offices and we are looking for an Employee Benefits Consultant at Manger and Senior Manager level.

Responsibilities include the following;

Lead the delivery of employee benefits projects across the South region, based either in Reading or London (Embankment Place)

You will manage a portfolio of existing clients, dealing with all client activity, review/preparation of reports, communications, provider contracting terms, etc. Maintain regular client contact, acts as a primary point of contact or point of escalation

Delegates work to Managers and Senior Associates within the P&O team, providing relevant training, ongoing support and personal development

You will have the opportunity to use your initiative and liaise effectively with other consultants, playing a key role in managing and developing clients

Manage ongoing relationships with the providers, act as a main point of contact and monitor activity

Undertake internal risk management activity to support new projects, working with the Client Administrators to ensure all risk is maintained.

Ensures compliance with internal processes including any FCA regulated activity

Business development support, helping drive client campaigns and proactively drive opportunities and overall proposition

Essential skills and experience

Experience with Employee Benefits (including flexible benefits). Great knowledge and technical awareness of EB products (Healthcare and Risk).

Experience of advising clients regarding their UK Healthcare arrangements, including trust-based and insured schemes

Experience of advising clients regarding their UK group risk products, including knowledge of individual insurance arrangements

Experience of advising clients around global benefits provision

Demonstrate the ability to be consultative and pragmatic in client strategy and delivery

Knowledge of employee benefits market trends, within the UK and globally.

Excellent presentation skills, both verbal and written, including the ability to distill technical language (industry jargon) for non-experts (clients and colleagues)

Experience with managing people, including oversight of work, delivery, coaching and collaboration

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work (ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

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The Deal

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Diversity

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We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.

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