Pensions Actuarial Associate Consultant (London)

LCP is an award-winning actuarial and analytics consultancy providing advice on pensions, investments, employee benefits, insurance, health and energy. We help our clients make good decisions based on insightful analysis, industry expertise, and game-changing technology.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our pensions actuarial team to help support our continued growth in the DB pensions market.

Our pensions actuarial department in London consists of over 150 people, from analysts to Partners. The team advises trustees and sponsors on a wide range of DB pensions issues – from core work on actuarial valuations and member options advice, to strategic advice and project work. Everyone in the department has their own unique client mix, meaning that everyone works with lots of different people to advise a range of different clients. This means that the client work is varied and interesting, and there are always new opportunities to learn from others in the team. Our clients range from small schemes with only a handful of members, to large schemes of over £1bn. You’ll be working on a variety of schemes, each with their own priorities.

Your day-to-day role will involve carrying out or checking actuarial calculations with the rest of the teams on your clients along with drafting the associated advice. At Associate Consultant level, you will take ownership of delegating tasks to analysts and ensuring that work is ready for review by the senior members of the team, who will support you with this. Everyone is encouraged to attend client meetings to help develop your consulting skills and your list will enable you to have the opportunity to not only attend, but also present at these meetings alongside senior team members. You will also have the opportunity to attend industry networking events, with LCP playing a key role in organising events. Within our department there are opportunities to join our specialist teams, for example covering Pensions Risk Transfer, longevity, GMP and Collective Defined Contribution schemes.

Specifically you will be involved in:

• Conducting actuarial valuations for clients for a variety of purposes including funding, solvency, Section 179 and buy-in feasibility studies
• Calculating and checking individual member calculations such as transfer values
• Producing member option factors, such as early and late retirement factors or commutation factors for administrators
• Calculating disclosures for accounting purposes under IAS19 and/or US GAAP
• Carrying out and checking calculations for data and benefit rectification projects, including GMP equalisation

You’ll be a part-qualified FIA with at least two years' experience, typically working in the UK pensions actuarial consulting environment. An awareness of current issues and key hot topics in the UK pensions industry. Ability to draft clear communications and presentations. Good communication skills and the ability to explain the approach taken and results to more senior team members. Ability to prioritise workloads with conflicting importance and flexibility to adapt to different client needs.

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:

• Hybrid working (varies by role and department)
• Professional study support (where applicable)
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave
• 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
• Cycle to work scheme
• Digital GP services
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Volunteering opportunities
• 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.