Asset Transitions Manager

LGPS Central Limited; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Enhanced pension

30 days holiday

Volunteer days

Company day

Learning & development

Wellbeing support

Private medical insurance

Hybrid working

Cycle to work

EV scheme

Awards and recognition

Job summary

LGPS Central Limited is seeking an Asset Transitions Manager to lead the planning, governance and delivery of fund launches and asset transitions across the LGPS Central system. You will coordinate with internal teams and external partners to ensure timely, well-governed transitions, with robust reporting and RAID/logs.

The role requires strong project management experience in financial services or a regulated environment, excellent organisation, and the ability to manage multiple dependencies

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in a project management role in financial services or regulated environments.
• Strong planning, governance and reporting skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across senior governance and client-facing forums.
• Experience engaging multiple stakeholders and managing dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Manage planning, coordination and delivery of fund launches and asset transition activity.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders on planning, scheduling and delivery.
• Define transition scope, deliverables, milestones and readiness criteria.
• Prepare reports for Committees and governance forums with clarity and accuracy.
• Facilitate planning and implementation meetings with stakeholders.
• Establish requirements and responsibilities with third parties to ensure alignment with governance.
• Maintain detailed plans, RAID logs, issue trackers and readiness documentation.
• Identify risks and track mitigating actions.
• Assure programme documentation for audits and compliance.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of processes and reporting standards.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Planning & scheduling

Governance

Communications

Excel

MS Project

Strategic thinking

Attention to detail

Education

Degree level or equivalent

Tools

MS Project

MS Office

Job description

Join LGPS Central at a pivotal moment, where investment meets long term impact. The Asset Transitions Manager will manage the planning, governance, delivery, reporting and coordination of fund launch and asset transition activity within LGPS Central. The postholder will work collaboratively with the wider transition team and internal/external stakeholders to manage the successful delivery of transitions. This role provides structure and consistency across transition activities, ensuring plans, RAID logs, action trackers, governance packs and reporting are maintained to a high standard, whilst managing the delivery of the fund launches and transitions. This is a great opportunity for someone with project management experience and/or asset transition and fund launch experience to develop their skills within a professional, purpose-led, and growing organisation.

What you'll be doing:

• Manage the planning, coordination and delivery of fund launches and asset transition activity.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders on the planning, scheduling and delivery of fund launch and asset transition activity.
• Support the definition of transition scope, deliverables, dependencies, milestones, readiness criteria and implementation requirements.
• Prepare regular reports and updates for Committees, governance forums, transition meetings and Client meetings, demonstrating good attention to detail and accuracy.
• Facilitate planning meetings, readiness reviews and implementation meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
• Facilitate meetings with Clients ensuring supporting documentation is clear, precise and fit for purpose.
• Establish clear requirements, deliverables, roles and responsibilities with third parties to ensure alignment with LGPSC governance, operating model and control requirements.
• Maintain detailed plans, action logs, RAID logs, issue trackers, decision logs and readiness documentation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve a variety of transition, operational and process issues, escalating where appropriate.
• Identify risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, supporting the formulation and tracking of mitigating or resolving actions.
• Assurance - ensuring all programme documentation is in place for internal and external audit reviews, governance checkpoints and compliance requirements.
• Support operational readiness activity, including readiness assessments, implementation checklists, control reviews and post-transition lessons learned.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of fund launch and asset transition processes, templates, controls and reporting standards.
• 5+ years' experience working in a project management role, ideally within a professional, financial services, or regulated environment.
• Highly organised, able to prioritise effectively and to work accurately towards deadlines across multiple concurrent activities.
• Excellent IT and MS Office skills including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and knowledge of project planning tools such as MS Project.
• First class interpersonal and communication skills to work across teams.
• Ability to work with multiple dependencies and time-critical activities, escalating risks and issues appropriately.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence engaging stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Experience of action logging, issue tracking, risk management and tracking activities through to completion.
• Effective time management - manages personal workload effectively, has the ability to work under pressure and sets realistic and achievable targets and delivers to those targets.
• Effectively challenge stakeholders for activities related to delivery.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to produce high-quality documentation suitable for senior governance and client-facing forums.

Desirable

• Experience managing asset transitions, fund launches, investment change or operational readiness activity in financial services, pensions, or asset management.
• Track record of engaging portfolio managers and external stakeholders.
• Understanding of asset transitions, portfolio onboarding, fund launches, custody arrangements, investment operations and operational readiness desirable.
• Understanding of benefits tracking and post-project review processes.
• Worked in Financial Services, ideally Investment Management., Degree level or equivalent
• PRINCE2 Foundation or equivalent project management qualification desirable.
• Investment operations, asset management or pensions-related qualification desirable but not essential.

LGPS Central (LGPSC) Ltd is the FCA regulated asset manager for fourteen local authority pension funds across the Midlands. LGPSC is jointly owned on an equal shares basis by those Partner Fund, and it is responsible for managing £100bn+ of their assets. It is one of six Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) asset pools in the UK.

LGPS Central's Partner Funds are:

• Cheshire Pension Fund
• Derbyshire Pension Fund
• Leicestershire Pension Fund
• Nottinghamshire Pension Fund
• Shropshire Pension Fund
• Staffordshire Pension Fund
• West Midlands Pension Fund
• Worcestershire Pension Fund
• Gloucestershire Pension Fund
• Hampshire Pension Fund
• Suffolk County Council
• Wiltshire Pension Fund
• Norfolk Pension Fund
• Oxfordshire Pension Fund

The Company is committed to responsible investment and has made responsible investment a core part of the investment process in every asset class. LGPS Central offers a friendly and diverse, hybrid working environment with a range of employee benefits. The Company moved to new premises at i9, Wolverhampton Interchange in January 2022, close to local transport links. Our objective is to be a leading investment management company working with and for our Partner Funds. With a focus on value for money and performance we want to aspire to be one of the best because this is how we will deliver the superior investment returns and low costs for our Partner Funds.

What do we offer?

We are proud to provide our people with a premium and exclusive benefits package and we are continually improving the rewards we offer. Here are a few of the valuable rewards that you will enjoy:

• Competitive salary
• An enhanced and generous Pension Scheme
• 30 days' paid holiday plus bank holidays
• 2 days paid volunteering days
• An extra paid Company Day in addition to paid holidays
• Excellent Learning & Development Opportunities
• Welfare and Family friendly policies
• Enhanced pay for new parents
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme 247 Health & Wellbeing Support
• Vitality Private Medical Insurance
• Hybrid Working
• Company Service Awards
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Company Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Winner of the Cultural Awareness Initiative of the Year FT Advisors Diversity in Finance Awards 2023
• Winner of Diversity and Inclusion Award LAPF In Investments Award 2023
• Winner of LAPF Investment Innovation
• Winner of Pool of the Year 2025