Newly Qualified Pensions Associate - Liverpool

Pensions Associate - NQ

Liverpool

Salary Negotiable

The Firm

My client is one of the worlds largest law firm, it is established in more than 30 countries, clients from multinational, global 1000, and fortune 500 enterprises to emerging developing industry-leading technologies

The Role

Working as part of our specialist team, the successful candidate will have a broad diet of work, that will include, but not be limited to, assisting in providing client focused support and advice on:

• drafting and interpretation of trust deeds and rules and other scheme documents
• compliance with new legislation (e.g. abolition of contracting out, automatic enrolment, tax changes)
• benefit design issues, closure to accrual, transition from final salary to CARE or money purchase benefits
• day-to-day governance and compliance
• scheme funding, the use of contingent assets and asset backed funding structures; scheme mergers and reconstructions; scheme wind ups; legal aspects of pension scheme investments
• risk management, buy-ins, buy-outs and longevity hedging
• transactional support, including drafting and negotiating pension schedules and admission agreements

The Candidate

• You will have strong Pensions experience gained in a leading regional or City firm
• Be able to demonstrate a deep understanding of the technical issues that are key to our clients
• Commercially astute and stays current on key legal and business news
• Excellent skills in communication, client relations, and team-working
• Able to work flexibly to tight deadlines within our fast moving environment
• Contributes to marketing and business development initiatives

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