We are seeking a talented individual to join our Mercer Marsh Benefits (MMB) Multinational Advisory team at Mercer. This role will be based in Porto or Lisbon. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

The Multinational Advisory group offers specialized expertise, knowledge, data, and tools to help multinational clients manage the costs, risks, and complexities of their cross-border benefit and rewards programs. This group handles a variety of projects for multinational clients, including Global Actuarial appointments, Global DC Plan Management, Global Broking, Multinational Pooling, Captives, Benefits for Expatriates/Mobile employees, inventory and benchmarking of global benefits/perquisites, New Country Setup, and Cross-Border transactions.

We are looking for a detail-oriented Analyst to join our team, focusing primarily on actuarial coordination while also contributing to various global employee benefits projects. The ideal candidate will play a key role in pension accounting consolidation efforts, ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of deliverables, while also supporting various global benefit and rewards solutions offered by the Multinational Advisory group. You will collaborate with a diverse team of consultants to develop tailored solutions for our multinational clients.

We will count on you to:

Work with a team of Mercer Marsh Benefits (MMB) Multinational Advisory consultants and Mercer consultants around the world to deliver customized multinational client solutions.Provide support for pension accounting consolidation projects, which includes: Review input from locally based actuaries and benefit consultants; take ownership of specific deliverables; provide client-ready results and communications for review by senior multinational consultants; and provide comments and raise questions regarding the pension valuation results.Contribute as a member of the consulting team to prepare benchmark data to clients and ensures plan and program changes are properly implemented and represent client’s strategy.Coordinate the activity of local brokers and consultants around the world, comparing against benchmarks and providing initial recommendations on changes.Liaise with Mercer consultants to draft responses to client questions on non-domestic retirement, rewards and benefit and overall wellbeing issues.Support a range of international projects such as retirement design and funding, competitive benefits analysis, benefits for start-up operations, and benefits integration and harmonization post M&A activities.Support M&A due diligence for non-US benefits.Assist with the preparation, completion of peer review process and delivery of clear and concise client-oriented communications.Ensure compliance with professional standards including use of templates, client calendar, peer review, and transparency.

What you need to have:

Bachelor/ Master’s degree in math, actuarial science, statistics, economics, finance, business or related field.At least 2 years of actuarial pension related work experience preferred.Knowledge of US GAAP/IFRS pension accounting regulations preferred.Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.Attention to detail is critical.Advanced Microsoft Office skills (in particular a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint).

What makes you stand out?

Strong problem-solving skills & ability to clearly articulate complex issues.Excellent planning and organizational skills to prioritize and effectively manage a wide variety of ongoing tasks.Ability to build strong working relationships with colleagues and clients.Proactive and goal oriented.

Why join our team:

We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Mercer, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is a global leader in helping clients realize their investment objectives, shape the future of work and enhance health and retirement outcomes for their people. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $23 billion and more than 85,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit mercer.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.