First Actuarial adds Vicky Greenwood to Manchester team

Vicky Greenwood has joined First Actuarial to assist advise purchasers on their actuarial schemes. Nicely-known for her experience within the North-West of England, Greenwood brings greater than 14 years of expertise to the function.

Commenting on her determination to affix First Actuarial, Greenwood mentioned, “With their data and experience, skilled trustees can grasp troublesome scheme points rapidly. That opens up higher outcomes for schemes and members by liberating up time to work at a strategic stage. I see First Actuarial as a agency that’s unafraid to have a look at points otherwise. That ought to reassure skilled trustees that we’re taking a look at each possibility accessible to them and never enjoying to our personal agenda.”

First Actuarial is a consulting agency which specialises in pension advisory companies. Based in 2004, the agency’s headcount throughout its 5 workplaces now tops 430, with places in Leeds, Manchester, Peterborough, Tonbridge and Basingstoke. Amid the continued uncertainty within the pensions sector, the consultancy’s companies have been in eager demand of late – and First Actuarial reported report income ranges final yr, with turnover rising by 19% within the yr to 31 July 2023.

Explaining why that may be, Greenwood added, “I like the best way that First Actuarial is blissful to problem norms. There are some nice characters with sturdy opinions at First Actuarial, which is widely known moderately than discouraged. That’s good for purchasers as a result of energetic debate brings out the strongest concepts and the simplest recommendation. There’s area to be your individual adviser right here, with the help of everybody round you, which is nice.”

Greenwood’s profession began at Buck, the place she labored as an actuarial pupil. She moved to Mitchell Consulting in a cut up function as trainee actuary {and professional} trustee. At KPMG, she then supplied companies to each trustees and employers as she superior in the direction of her scheme actuary certificates.

Greenwood is well-known within the Higher Manchester space, not least due to her energetic involvement within the North West Actuarial Society. Trying forward, this knowhow and industrial perception will see her tackle scheme actuary duties – serving to be sure that outlined profit schemes are appropriately funded – with First Actuarial, offering companies to employers, and supporting the agency’s development by way of new enterprise alternatives.

Trying forward, she concluded, “I actually like trying on the artwork of the attainable to seek out recent methods of fixing issues for employers. With a lot new work coming in, I gained’t be treading on anybody’s toes, even with greater than 400 staff. I really feel that there’s area for anybody to develop in quite a lot of instructions right here.”