Join the TELUS Health retirement benefits implementation team as a functional lead.
In this role, you will be able to demonstrate your extensive expertise in defined benefit pension plan administration. Furthermore, you will act as a practice lead by effectively managing the deliverables of a team composed of business analysts and calculation verifiers.
This role requires solid expertise in benefit calculation engine configuration and good adaptability in order to familiarize yourself with our solution quickly within our growing team.
What's in it for you- Incomparable versatility in pension calculations and plan administration across Canadian and American markets
- Deep expertise in an innovative and specialized field that sets you apart in the pension industry
- Multiple implementation projects with leading clients across North America, expanding your portfolio and professional network
- Flexibility to work from anywhere in Canada while maintaining a healthy work-life balance
- Comprehensive benefits package
- A corporate culture centered on mutual aid, social impact, well-being, and diversity
Primary Responsibilities- Represent the benefit calculation implementation team to project management
- Determine and manage the priorities of their implementation team
- Perform ongoing planning of deliverables considering the project scope
- Proactively identify potential risks and issues
- Be responsible for pension plan rules analysis documents
- Provide technical support and supervise the configuration of the benefit calculation engine
- Know the system configuration in order to position themselves as the calculation engine expert in our implementations
- Support specialized technical stakeholders for data conversion and data collections
- Work closely with the product development team
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of our implementation processes
What You BringRequirements
- University degree in actuarial science, mathematics, project management, or any other relevant field
- 7+ years of relevant experience in defined benefit pension plans
- Experience with Canadian and/or American pension plans
- Experience in retirement benefit calculation engine configuration
- Mastery of retirement benefit calculations
- Fluency in French and English (oral and written)
- Proficiency in Excel
- Ability to travel to Canada and the United States
Assets
- Knowledge of Azure DevOps or similar work management tools
- Knowledge of VBA programming
- Continuing education in actuarial science
Soft Skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Attention to detail
- Ability to influence internal and external stakeholders
- Leadership and ability to maintain team engagement
- Ability to work in a team and independently
- Coaching and resource development skills
- Effective priority management
- Ability to make decisions involving a certain level of risk
- Ability to adapt your communication style to people with different levels of expertise
Intermediate knowledge of English is required because you will most of the time interact in English with external parties (clients, suppliers, candidates, external partners, etc.); interact in English with internal parties (colleagues, internal partners, stakeholders, etc.); and work with IT tools whose interface is only accessible in English as part of this position's main responsibilities given its international scope.
Note for Quebec candidates: if knowledge of English is required for this position, it is because the team member will be asked, on a regular basis, to interact in English with external or internal parties or to use English applications or software as part of their tasks.
By applying to this role, you understand and agree that your information will be shared with the TELUS Group of Companies' Talent Acquisition team(s) and/or any leader(s) who will be part of the selection process.
