Punter Southall

The following is information from Punter Southalls website.

Punter Southall is a successful professional services company, having grown from nine staff in 1988 to over 700 staff in 2010. We offer you a challenging career, interesting work, a can-do attitute and a friendly, sociable environment.
We have had Investor in People standard accreditation since September 1997. Our achievement of this standard recognises our commitment to training and development of our staff, which helps us to achieve our aims, goals, vision and strategy. This benefits both our company and our people and ensures that all staff are motivated and offered progressive career paths.
We offer a full range of actuarial, employee benefit consultancy and pension administration services across the UK. Our clients are pension scheme trustees and employers from a broad spectrum of businesses, charities, unions and institutions.

Punter Southall is a friendly and exciting place to work, offering wide-ranging and rewarding career opportunities.
Opportunities to contribute to our continued success include offering careers in: pensions administration, actuarial and business development as well as our supporting functions enabling us to deliver our core business such as IT, marketing, finance, HR and secretarial.
We have a can-do approach to business, being solution-focused and innovative; going that extra mile for our clients.
We are committed to excellence in the professional services we provide and believe that we will continue to be successful as long as we keep attracting and retaining talented people who feel motivated and enthusiastic.
We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefit packages and are committed to helping our staff realise their full potential through our extensive training and development programme.

We can offer you an exciting and wide-ranging exposure to an actuarial pensions consultancy in a friendly and stimulating environment. Trainees and qualified actuarial staff work closely with our pensions administration teams. Our main business is to provide actuarial consultancy and administration services to pension schemes of corporate clients. We are committed to excellence in the professional services it provides. In a consultancy business we believe that the company will continue to be successful only so long as it can attract, develop and retain talented people who feel motivated and enthusiastic. This in turn depends on successful recruitment followed up by motivating and excellent remunerative career opportunities.
We believe all these ingredients are on offer at Punter Southall. In particular you can expect exposure to a wide range of actuarial activity, early responsibility and the challenge of contributing to an expanding business. We are committed to the continued support of our people, which is reflected in our Investor in People (IiP) accreditation. In combination with relevant professional training this forms the cornerstone of our training and development policy.

We have successfully completed our 2010 Graduate Actuarial Trainee Programme and therefore at present are not actively resourcing additional applications.
Closing date for applications
Our closing date for email and postal applications for our 2010 Graduate Actuarial Trainee Programme was Friday 6 November 2009
Graduate Actuarial Trainee Programme 2011
We will be commencing our recruitment process for our September 2011 intake in September of this year, further details on this scheme will be available towards the end of the Summer.

Summer Internship Programme 2010
Our Summer Internship Programme is specifically aimed at individuals who are interested in pursuing a career within the actuarial profession. The programme runs for 6-8 weeks during the months of July and August, commencing on Monday 5th July 2010.

Criteria

Internships are normally available to individuals who would be available to commence employment within 12–18 months of this placement.
You will need to be studying (or have studied) for a degree qualification in any discipline with an expectation to achieve a 2.1 or above.
In addition, we require a minimum of 340 UCAS points or equivalent (excluding General Studies and AS Level grades) including a grade A in A-Level Mathematics or equivalent.
Key attributes
In addition to the necessary academic achievements, we are looking for well-rounded individuals who possess and can demonstrate the following key attributes:
An ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
An aptitude for working with people
Excellent interpersonal abilities
A client focused approach
Well-developed communication skills both orally and in writing to people with a diversity of social and educational backgrounds