Description
The Retirement Implementation Specialist role will be an integral part of a global team that will ensure that our systems accurately reflect client pension plan design features and comply with current US legislation.
The Role- Be part of a pioneer group in Manila that will establish and grow knowledge around the pension plan designs, as well as the client and Government-specific rules and requirements that govern them.
- Have the opportunity to work within a line of business that provides pension, and health and welfare administration outsourcing solutions for nearly eight million benefit plan participants globally, including more than five million in North America.
- Work on the Manila night shift to work real-time with the rest of our US onshore colleagues.
- Have immediate focus on:
- Understanding how pension calculations work and the business rules that drive them.
- Test plan execution.
- Raising bugs / issues found based on testing to your Lead RIS.
- Release testing.
- Running calculation regression and updating its list of test cases as needed.
- Execution of monthly processing items (Cash Balance Rollups, Monthly Interest Rates).
- Configuration of new clients pension plan XML.
- Eventually grow into:
- Fully understanding the client pension plans and system rules.
- Fulfill responsibilities of a Primary RIS.
- Being a component lead for implementation projects.
Qualifications
The Requirement
- Bachelor's degree in Math, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science, Engineering,
Management Information Systems, or other major with significant quantitative course work.
- At least two years of relevant work experience.
- Has advanced experience with Excel.
- Experience with test plan creation, testing procedures and test plan execution is required.
- Experience with MSSQL.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Self-motivated and ability to remain focused on assigned projects.
- Detail oriented and demonstrated organizational skills.
- Committed to quality and continuous improvement.
- Experience with US Pension Plans preferred, but not required.
- Experience working with the US and/or UK is preferred, but not required
- Experience with XML is preferred, but not required.
WTW is an Equal Opportunity Employer
