Pensions Management Consulting (Consultant)

Pensions Management Consulting (Consultant) London, England

Lane Clark & Peacock
Full Time London, England 58893 - 84500 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

The Pensions Management Consulting (PMC) practice is a growing and successful department, based in London. We provide a wide range of consultancy services to pension schemes of all shapes and sizes and advise both trustee and corporate clients. We are committed to delivering services of the highest quality and work closely with our clients to make sure the pension schemes we advise are run as well as possible.


We are a diverse and inclusive team of 21 staff members and partners known for our drive, energy and enthusiasm. Our backgrounds include, pensions administration, pensions actuarial, in-house roles, legal and governance. We place great emphasis on the investment and development of our staff, who are at the core of what we do and our continued success, and are now looking for bright and enthusiastic individuals to further strengthen our department.


Some of our key services and activities include:

  • Helping our clients manage and run their pension schemes effectively. This often involves acting as the named trustee secretary and advising on all aspects of scheme governance
  • Advising on best practice for pension schemes by running interactive exercises to help trustees and sponsors assess their effectiveness and implement improvements
  • Designing and leading bespoke procurement exercises for our clients (including administration and independent professional trustee selection exercises). This requires us to be experts in numerous areas of the market and undertake detailed research with the various service providers
  • Project managing a wide variety of projects for our clients, for LCP, and for the wider pensions industry
  • Client relationship management – we develop very close relationships with the clients and other advisers that we work with. We are also often the key point of contact for our LCP colleagues in other departments in helping to ensure our clients receive excellent service.

What will you be doing?

  • Working with colleagues across the department and wider firm to deliver all aspects of trustee secretarial support to ongoing clients
  • Taking on individual named Trustee Secretary appointments
  • Participating in the development of LCP’s governance services and deliver governance consulting services to clients to ensure best practice with regulation and industry guidance
  • Working with colleagues to deliver standalone project support to clients including adviser procurement
  • Acting as the main point of contact for some clients
  • Participating in new business tenders and pitches and contribute to the development and marketing of PMC services
  • Providing in-house support to clients from time to time as required. This may be in the capacity of pensions manager, Trustee Secretary or pensions team member
  • Taking responsibility for managing own workloads, effectively managing client relationships and demonstrating a high level of self-motivation to seek new opportunities for development
  • Playing an active role in the development of junior department staff

What skills, experience and qualities are we looking for?

  • Demonstrable experience providing pensions consulting support either in-house or at another consultancy
  • To hold, or be in the process of obtaining, a professional pensions qualification (APMI or FPMI for example)
  • Demonstrable excellent understanding of all aspects of running a pension scheme and able to provide examples of having helped schemes meet their regulatory obligations and solve problems
  • Experience of organising trustee meetings, drafting agendas, producing meeting packs, preparing trustee papers, attending meetings, presenting items, producing minutes and producing and managing actions logs
  • Managing Member Nominated Trustee exercises
  • Putting in place and reviewing risk registers
  • Dealing with regulatory bodies and third parties
  • Helping schemes develop their response to regulatory initiatives
  • Delivering project and change management, advice and support
  • Excellent communication skills to develop internal and external relationships
  • Commercial awareness
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment alongside managing your own workload effectively

If you have experience in some or all of the following areas it would be beneficial:

  • Providing strategic direction to either trustees or corporates
  • Acting as an interim pensions manager for schemes
  • Carrying out trustee effectiveness reviews
  • Carrying out marketing activity
  • Interest in trustee governance and best practice

What's in it for you?

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!), options to buy & sell holiday, discounted gym memberships, private medical, 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.

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 with Karina Lee, Angie Lewis and Julie Newall via our dedicated email address - [email protected] to discuss how we can support you with your application.

Pensions Management Consulting (Consultant)
Lane Clark & Peacock

https://careers.lcp.com/
London, United Kingdom
Aaron Punwani
$100 to $500 million (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Company - Private
Business Consulting
1947
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