Retirement Implementation Specialist - Night Shift

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:
  o Fully understanding the client pension plans and system rules.
  o Fulfill responsibilities of a Primary RIS.
  o Being a component lead for implementation projects.

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