DC Associate Consultant

DC Associate Consultant

Location - London (minimum 2 days per week in office)

LCP is an award-winning actuarial and analytics consultancy providing market-leading capabilities and advice across pensions and financial services, energy, health, and analytics. We use powerful analytics fused with human expertise to shape a more positive future.

We have an exciting opportunity for a DC (Defined Contribution) Associate Consultant to join our growing specialist DC division. The role covers the wide spectrum of advice required by a DC scheme. We are looking for someone who is interested in building strong relationships and assisting DC schemes with both ongoing governance as well as investment strategy.

What will you be doing?

As a Associate Consultant you will be:

• Building relations with clients to help the team ensure that client needs are met
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of market practice, legislation and DC governance requirements
• Checking performance monitoring reports, including commentary and investment performance figures, to a level where the reports needs only a brief review by the signatory
• Running and checking a variety of models in connection with investment strategy and analysis of scheme membership
• Understanding the basis of transfers of assets between investment managers and liaise with managers during the transfer
• Supporting clients with ongoing governance which may mean attending client meetings to present on items such as regular performance monitoring
• Supporting on projects, including master trust / GPP reviews, selection exercises, the buy-out and wind-up of pension arrangements and AVC reviews
• Drafting non-standard documents to a standard where they are suitable for review by the signatory

What skills, experience and qualities are we looking for?

• Experience in the UK DC pension fund investment industry
• Studying towards FIA, FFA, CFA or PMI
• Excellent communication skills
• A commercial awareness

What's in it for you?

Take a look at our Glassdoor and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you:

• Hybrid working (see top of the advert for details)
• Professional study support (where applicable)
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women's networks

For your family:

• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health:

• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Digital GP services

For your wealth:

• Competitive pension scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• High street discounts
• Season ticket loans

For others:

• Volunteering opportunities

For the environment:

• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies)

And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.

LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch via our dedicated email address - email protected to discuss how we can support you with your application.

Recruitment agencies

LCP operates a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for recruitment agencies which is reviewed annually. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies who are not part of our current PSL. LCP only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place, and the agency has been instructed by a member of our recruitment team to supply CVs via the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for a legitimate, open vacancy. If this process is not adhered to, LCP reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and have discussions with them without paying any agency fees. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to any employee or Partner at LCP.