Making a difference

At BW, we are always looking for graduates who are eager to join a firm where they can make a difference.

If you are an ambitious individual who would relish the chance to share your skills and work in the actuarial, investment or insurance consulting professions, we would love for you to join our award-winning organisation and become part of our talented, friendly team.

As a professional services consultancy, our teams use cutting-edge techniques and shared best practice to advise a range of stakeholders, helping them find tailored solutions to their challenges.

Seeking the best talent

To support our continued growth as an independent, resilient and evergreen business, we need talented, motivated and enthusiastic people to join our graduate programme.

Our graduates get early opportunities to work directly with clients and plenty of training to develop their technical and communication skills. At BW, you will thrive in a business which believes strongly in being supportive, developing its people and offering a good work/life balance.

We will also continue to support your progression in the longer term, as you establish a network of contacts across the business and develop your knowledge of our different consultancy businesses.

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Qualifications

Across all of our consulting graduate programmes, we would support you to work towards the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ (IFoA) fellowship qualification – the highest level of qualification attainable within IFoA.

If you join our Investment Consulting team, we also offer the opportunity to work towards the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification. The graduates within the Investment Consulting team are free to choose the qualification (IFoA or CFA) that best aligns with their individual goals.

Our study support includes study days, financial support and an assigned study mentor. While the exams are challenging, our students have a better-than-average record of exam success. 

 

Working with us

We have three consulting graduate programmes to choose from:
 

As a graduate working across our Actuarial and Employer Consulting teams, typical tasks will include:

  • working with consultants to assess the objectives and requirements of clients (including pension schemes and corporates);
  • actuarial calculations;
  • processing and validating data for actuarial valuations and related calculations;
  • undertaking preliminary valuation calculations and working on bespoke one-off client projects;
  • preparing draft client reports and advice;
  • attending client meetings and taking an active role in presentations;
  • supporting data analytic projects using programming languages (such as R) and creating client dashboards;
  • supporting our corporate team on a wide range of areas;
  • general consultancy, including dealing with client and third-party telephone queries and day-to-day correspondence; and
  • studying for the IFoA qualification.

As a graduate working in our Insurance & Longevity Consulting team, typical tasks will include:

  • performing and summarising actuarial calculations, valuation/model runs (where relevant) and data analysis;
  • validating and manipulating data using appropriate tools (such as R, Tableau, Microsoft Excel and other software);
  • assisting with drafting client communications and deliverables for various stakeholders; including emails, reports/working papers, regulatory submissions and presentations;
  • undertaking research to support assumptions or methodology;
  • supporting the build of new and existing models using programming languages (such as R and Python);
  • assisting with the design and management of surveys and using statistical techniques in order to analyse and interpret the quantitative data collected; and
  • studying for the IFoA qualification.

As a graduate working in our Investment Consulting team, typical tasks will include:

  • working with consultants to assess the objectives and requirements of clients (including pension schemes, corporates, charities, endowments and more);
  • working with Client Account Managers to prepare bespoke investment advice and regular reports;
  • carrying out investment calculations, alongside building and running investment models;
  • attending client meetings and taking an active role in presentations;
  • building knowledge through research (such as investment manager research, sustainable investment research or within another of our specialist research sub-teams);
  • preparing regulatory disclosures;
  • general consultancy, including communicating with clients and third parties on a day-to-day basis; and
  • studying for either the IFoA or CFA qualification.

Minimum requirements

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Actuarial summer internship

In your penultimate year of undergraduate study? Our 8-week internship gives you an insight into life as a Trainee Consultant.

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Trainee Pension Management Consultant

New programme to support our growing business and attract bright and diverse graduates.

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Trainee Pension Administration Consultant

Gain experience across a number of specialist pension teams during our 2-year programme.

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Trainee Pensions Analyst

Our trainee Pensions Analysts work alongside experienced consultants within our Defined Contribution consulting team.

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Graduate Software Developer

We recruit for recent graduates throughout the year across all our offices into trainee software roles.
 

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Back to graduate careers

We look for graduates eager to join an award-winning firm where they can step up and make a difference.
 

Feeling inspired?

We tend to advertise graduate roles through the summer months for a start date in September of the following year but this isn’t always the case so please follow us on social media and add our Early Careers vacancies page to your favourites to keep updated on all our graduate opportunities.

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 View some of our frequently asked questions below to help you start the application process.

Please feel free to contact our Early Careers Talent Acquisition Advisor here.

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