Pensions Data Services Associate Consultant (Pensions Actuarial background)

Location - London or Edinburgh

At LCP we love what we do, and it shows. We help our clients make good decisions based on insightful analysis, industry expertise, and game-changing technology. Working across a wide range of sectors, including pensions and benefits, investments, insurance, energy, health, sports, and data analytics, we help our clients navigate complexity in order to take the action that matters.

Our Data Services team is rapidly expanding, as we increase our offering to clients, particularly in the de-risking space. The team work closely with expertise in other areas of LCP’s business and utilise our advanced technology to deliver solutions to our clients. To facilitate this growth, we are recruiting individuals with a knowledge of Defined Benefit pensions to bolster our existing team.

What will you be doing?

You will be working on a variety of projects; working alongside our market-leading de-risking team to assist schemes as they prepare for buy-out/buy in, assisting with GMP data preparedness and the future Pensions Dashboard. Other work will include helping schemes meet their regulatory data requirements and supporting the wider data team on internal projects (such as new business transition). Our clients are a mixture of existing LCP administration clients, and clients administered elsewhere but seeking LCP’s expertise to meet their strategic objectives.

You will need to have experience in pensions data, actuarial science, or pensions administration who are looking to work on dynamic and fast-paced projects, and to utilise your technical expertise to execute solutions.

What skills and experience are we looking for?

• Knowledge of DB pension schemes, from a Pensions Actuarial background
• Ability to create bulk solutions to undertaken complex pension scheme calculations
• Able to prioritise workloads with conflicting importance, keeping to deadlines, agreed service levels and disclosure requirements
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly PowerPoint and Excel
• Keenness to take an active role to guarantee client satisfaction for the duration of projects and have a readiness to foster new relationships
• Able to work within agreed budgets and scopes

What qualities and behaviours will you be able to demonstrate?

• A willingness to establish excellent collaborative relationships with clients, external third parties, or suppliers
• Dedication to achieving client satisfaction, while also considering the requirements of the business
• Team player with the ability to build strong relationships
• Capable of strategic thinking and suggesting solutions, while also recognising potential risks and issues

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our 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 (varies by role and department)
• 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.