Medior/Senior ALM Consultant

Join Mercer as an ALM Consultant

About Mercer

Mercer is a leading provider of services to pension funds and other financial institutions. With around 70 different clients, we offer a wide range of services, and our Wealth Financial Sector Clients team in Amstelveen is expanding.

Our Services

The Wealth Financial Sector Clients department is responsible for providing services to financial institutions such as pension funds, insurers, and banks. Our services include strategic advice, certification, ALM studies, investment advice, risk management, and various other pension and investment issues.

Role of ALM Consultant

The ALM department supports pension funds, insurers, and other institutional investors in setting up and testing strategic policies. As an ALM consultant, you will work at the intersection of actuarial science and investment, collaborating with investment experts, actuaries, and international colleagues. The ALM department in Amstelveen consists of a young and ambitious team of professionals and is part of the larger Wealth department with approximately 70 colleagues.

Your Main Responsibilities:

• Conducting complex ALM calculations and translating them into understandable issues for the board of a pension fund, insurer, or employer.
• Advising clients on strategic issues based on current market knowledge.
• Guiding client projects from ALM calculations.
• Participating in and/or presenting at client meetings.
• Effectively conveying Mercer’s point-of-view and promoting Mercer’s thought leadership.
• Keeping up with sector developments and applying them in your work.

Your Qualifications:

• A relevant academic degree.
• At least 7 years of relevant (consultancy) work experience in a pension, ALM, or investment environment with a demonstrable track record.
• Knowledge of the content of the Future Pensions Act is a plus.
• Excellent analytical, numerical, and communication skills, enabling you to clearly convey complex matters to clients and translate client questions into analysis and advice for the team.
• Experience in building tools in Excel and programming (common programming languages).
• Client-oriented, accurate, proactive, independent, and a team player.
• Good command of the Dutch and English languages, both spoken and written.

Our Offer:

• A competitive salary including two full extra monthly salaries per year (13th month and holiday pay), a level allowance, and a bonus scheme.
• Good competitive secondary employment conditions, including a non-contributory pension scheme, a time-for-time scheme, mobility scheme, telecommuting options, and a flex budget scheme.
• Opportunities for personal development and training.
• Flat hierarchy, open-door culture, and room for personal initiative.
• Attention to work-life balance.

Interested? We would love to hear from you!

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