Our main area of work is providing clients with pensions consultancy services. This involves actuarial valuations, pension cost accounting, and other work that clients ask us to do.
Today I’ve been sending out requests for data, ahead of various valuations coming up at the end of the year. And I’ve got a couple of individual member calculations to look at. I’ve also been looking over work that some of our recent graduates have completed.
Everyone on the graduate programme is assigned a mentor. We have regular catch-ups, in which we can raise any queries and arrange any training we need.
We also have study mentors, who work with us along similar lines. First Actuarial covers the costs of our professional exams. And we get a set amount of study days for each exam, based on the recommended study time for that module.
Everyone gets along very well in the office. It’s very easy to access more senior members of the company – here in Basingstoke, for example, everyone sits in the same office.
All the partners are accessible – we work directly with them, even as new graduates, which I really like. In bigger companies that would be a lot harder. There’s a strong sense that the company really cares about its employees.
