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TELUS Health is empowering every person to live their healthiest life. Guided by our vision, we are leveraging the power of our leading edge technology and focusing on the uniqueness of each individual to create the future of health. As a global-leading health and well-being provider - encompassing physical, mental and financial health - TELUS Health is improving health outcomes for consumers, patients, healthcare professionals, employers and employees.

Join TELUS Health as a Senior Pension Calculation Analyst. In this role, you will be responsible for identifying test calculation scenarios that will ensure good test coverage, executing these test calculations using our retirement calculation software, verifying them, and reporting and tracking the resolution of identified anomalies.
At TELUS Health, this role will bring the selected individual incomparable expertise in retirement calculation verification and pension plan administration on the Canadian and American market. Through our multiple implementation projects for new clients throughout North America, the opportunity to learn an impressive range of calculation types will be offered.
In less than a year at TELUS Health, you will be able to gain incomparable diversity-something even seasoned professionals with years of experience in pension plan administration at our competitors cannot match.

What You'll Do

• Communicates with functional leaders, business analysts to have a clear understanding of the scope of testing
• Analyzes technical documents to identify required test scenarios
• Executes and verifies the calculation results of the test scenarios, reports anomalies
• Keeps the test suite up-to-date with new features added or changes to existing features
• Participates in team meetings and calculation review sessions
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams for problem solving
• Contributes to the continuous improvement of verification processes

What You Bring

Education

• University degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics or finance
• Continuing education in actuarial science (an asset)

Experience

• 4 years of relevant experience in Canadian pension plan administration
• Experience in verification of pension plan calculations or/and
• Experience in pension plan implementation

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in pension calculation tools
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps or similar job management tool (asset)
• Fluency in English and French (written and verbal)
• Proficiency in Excel
• VBA programming skills (asset)

Soft Skills

• Excellent organizational skills
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work in a team and independently
• Effective priority management

Salary Range: $65 000,00 - 85 000,00 CAD

Actual total compensation will be determined based on factors such as knowledge, skills, performance and experience. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply, even if the posted salary range doesn't match your expectations. We're open to discussing competitive compensation packages tailored to your experience level and expertise.

Job Type: This is for a current vacancy.

Advanced 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.

A bit about us

We're a people-focused, customer-first, purpose-driven team who works together every day to innovate and do good. We improve lives through our technology solutions and foster a culture of innovation that empowers team members to solve complex problems and create remarkable human outcomes in a digital world.

TELUS is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process.

Disclaimer: In accordance with the TELUS Health Solutions Data Center Security Policy, as a condition of employment, all team members whose job functions require they work at a Data Center and/or have access to detailed knowledge of technology related to client service delivery, are subject to a Personnel Security Screening conducted through the Government of Canada.

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.