We'd love to meet you at the following;

The Skills Workshop                                                2nd September 2021 - Virtual

Inspirational Women In Financial Services          15th September 2021 - Virtual

Heriot-Watt University Actuarial Fair     20th October 2021 - Virtual                               

Diversity and inclusion are important to our hiring practices and overall firm culture. Therefore, we ask you to fill in our short contextual recruitment form before submitting your application.

Your answers will be used for monitoring purposes and we may also use the information provided to inform how we measure academic potential. For example, whilst we have an A-Level requirement of a B and Scottish Higher-Grade A in Mathematics, we'll consider applicants who may have achieved this on a contextual basis. This means, when looking at your grades, we'll also consider factors such as the school you attended and your background, as we believe this gives us a fairer indication of your academic potential.  We'll take the same approach if you haven't achieved a 2.1 honours degree or above. 

Please note the information you provide cannot put you at a disadvantage, but it may provide a positive uplift on your academic achievements.

Please tick the relevant box in the application form if you completed this form and would like your grades to be considered contextually.

We want to make sure you do your best during our selection process. As a result, please let us know if you need us to consider any specific adjustments to support you, whether these be physical or in relation to neurodiversity.  

If you enjoy the following we’d love to hear from you;

A collaborate working environment, forming good working relations.  

Having fun at work whilst learning and achieving goals. 

Working with often detailed data.  

Solving problems. 

Adapting to different situations.

The general overarching responsibilities are;

Detailed analysis and interpretation of results. 

Being able to formulate advice for clients.

Presenting the advice in an easily understood way. 

Using modelling tools to support advice. 

Knowing how to maintain our quality standards, policies and risk management procedures. 

Time recording your work to the relevant client. 

Adhering to our Information Security standards, policies and procedures.  

Please see our Digi Mag for more information on each business area.

An actuary typically predicts future financial results, which are often uncertain.  Changes to legislation, demographic trends and the economy all need to be considered.  Mathematical work and modelling are sizable parts of the role.  The IFoA gives more insight into this career

We're committed to our clients and employees, whilst continually striving to improve our diversity and inclusion.

We genuinely live up to our values and we aim to make this the best job you'll ever have.

With a wide range of business areas, clients and an outstanding reputation, there are many stimulating opportunities for career development here.

Our independence allows you the opportunity to pursue areas that are of most interest to you, in a truly friendly and supportive environment.  It also allows us to give tailored solutions to clients.  

Scroll to the bottom of this page to check out what we offer.

Core Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Profit share scheme

Family friendly policies; enhanced maternity, paternity and parental leave policies.

Agile working 

Opportunities for flexible working

25 days annual leave plus public holidays

Annual profit share/bonus for permanent staff 

Birthday leave

Salary sacrifice pension contributions 

Private medical insurance

Life assurance 

Confidential employee assistance helpline

Permanent health insurance / Income protection

Optional Benefits

Annual leave buying and selling

Additional Life-Assurance

Private medical insurance

Workplace ISA

Dental insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Critical illness cover

Travel insurance

Health screening

Payroll giving

Will writing

Technology scheme

Gym membership via Gymflex

Interest free annual season ticket loan.

Our culture is rich in learning no matter what your role.   Your people manager will work with you to ensure your career is engaging and challenging.  Your work will be valued and so will you.  This is supported by our wellbeing group and mental health 1st aiders.

On our graduate programme, you will have IFoA or CFA exams to sit (Investment only).  Our study package is generous and your buddy will be there to provide support all the way.

For our Trainee Consultant (final year students or individuals who have already graduated), Industrial Placement and Summer Internship programmes (both penultimate year students only) the following minimum entry requirements apply.  However this is caveated by our Contextualised Recruitment Tool.

Minimum A-Level Maths Grade B, Scottish Higher Grade A or equivalent.

On track to achieve a minimum 2.1 honours degree in any discipline.

If you have an equivalent qualification to A-Level, GCSE or Scottish Higher, please provide evidence with your application that this meets the minimum entry criteria.

What is contextual recruitment? 

Contextualised grading helps us to recruit on your potential. So, by taking into account factors such as school performance and background, it gives us a fairer and clearer indication of your academic achievements rather than basing it solely on A-Level grades (or equivalent). To find out more, please click here.

We offer award an winning Summer Internship programme for penultimate year university students in either Actuarial, Investment, Defined Benefit Consulting or Insurance and Financial Services.

The internship lasts for 8 weeks from the beginning of July. You'll have the opportunity to work alongside some of the most talented consultants in the industry getting fantastic, hands-on experience and insight into an actuarial consulting career. You'll also work on an individual project throughout your internship.

Our Industrial Placement programme is also for penultimate year university students and runs from September to May in our Glasgow Specialist team most years.

All our trainees are given one study leave day per week.. You'll be expected to do more study in your own time. In total you should be studying a minimum of 20 hours a week, to give yourself the best chance of passing the exams.  Your people manager and study mentor will be there to support you, as well as others in your team and wider business.

Please do your research before you apply; our business, the programme and longer term career path.

You'll find our current vacancies further up this page, with details of how to apply.

We want to make sure you do your best during our selection process.  As a result, please let us know if you need us to consider any specific adjustments to support you whether that be physcial or in relation to neurodiversity.

1. Initial application

We'll ask you to complete a short application focusing on what you know about us, the programme and a bit on your strengths. This is your chance to evidence the research you've done. Take your time to; review our website, come and meet us at events, or at one of our Insight Days or give us a call! 

Laura is available on to chat about our Intern programme on 0141 566 7543 or you can call Jennifer about our Trainee Consultant roles on 0141 566 7601. 

Initially, we'll do a minimum entry criteria check incorporating our contextualised recruitment tool and then assess your application fully, later in the process.

2. Online Numerical test

We'll email you a link to a numerical test. This will take about 30 minutes to complete.    Before you do so, complete a couple of practice tests which can be found online. Example practice tests can be found here  Example Practice Tests.  You'll be given three days from receipt of the test to complete this.

3. Online Situational Judgement Test (SJT)

We'll email you a link to our bespoke situational judgement test.  This will give you an insight into the role and the types of situations that arise.  You'll be given three days from receipt of the test to complete this.  The SJT will assess your ability to make a judgement about a real life situation and by doing so indicates your potential for the role.

4. Full application form review

Telephone interview

You'll be invited to participate in a short telephone interview with a member of our friendly HR team. The interview will ask you to elaborate on some of the answers given in your application form in addition to testing your strengths further.

Final interview and meet a student (December - Trainee Consultant, January - Summer Intern)

Successful candidates at telephone interview will be invited to attend a final interview at your preferred office or virtually. The business unit you applied for will deliver the interview which will be strengths based for approximately 45 minutes.  Finally, you will meet one of our most recent Trainees so you can find out more about life at Hymans. This meeting is not assessed.

What is a strengths- based interview?

“Strengths are underlying qualities that energise us, contribute to our personal growth and lead to peak performance” (Brewerton & Brook 2006, Strengths Partnership)

A strengths-based interview is different from a competency based interview. Strengths-based interviews are a fairly new approach that some recruiters are moving towards as a way of finding out what candidates enjoy. While competency based interviews focus on what you can do, strengths-based interviews focus on what you like doing and are more positively worded. Perhaps nothing is more revealing about who you are than what you enjoy doing and this can tell interviewers a lot about your potential in the role you’re applying for.

What to expect from a strengths-based interview

Interviewers in a strengths-based interview will be trying to find out what kinds of activities engage and energise you. This is because when you are using your strengths, you will often perform to the best of your ability and quickly learn new things.

The questions in a strengths-based interview will be designed to identify whether you have strengths in areas which are important in the role you’re applying for. Interviewers may also ask questions relatively quickly in order to get a genuine and spontaneous response from you.

Strengths-based questions may include: ‘What do you do well?’, ‘When do you feel you are most like “yourself”?’ and ‘When are you at your best?’

Preparation

We're looking for strengths and potential which are important for our graduate trainee, industrial placement and intern positions:

Consider different situations you've been in; jobs, volunteering; caring or hobbies.  Think about what you most enjoyed, and why. When were you most engaged? What did you take most pride in?

Assessing what you most enjoy will help you to clarify what you want out of your career, as well as preparing you for the interview.

Last but not least is the fact that we want you to enjoy the interview experience and that’s most likely to happen when you’re being you!

We will be assessing your potential throughout the selection process in the following areas:

• Resilience, self-improvement and job motivation.
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Adaptability & flexibility
• Planning & organising
• Working with others

Every application for all our programmes will receive a response. Due to the very high number of applications we receive and telephone interviews we conduct, we're unfortunately not able to provide individual feedback to you at these stages.

Good luck and we look forward to hearing from you!

We have smart, bright, modern and well equipped offices in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and London.

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The student programmes we currently run are all listed at the top of this page.

We'll be running apprenticeship programmes soon, so please watch this space!