Retirement Implementation Specialist - Night Shift

Requisition identifier: 202604173

Location: Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines

Employment type: Full time

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