DC Consultant

LGBT Great; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life assurance

Income protection

Enhanced family leave

26 days annual leave

Competitive pension scheme

Discretionary bonus

High street discounts

Season ticket loans

Volunteering opportunities

Job summary

LCP is seeking a DC Consultant to join its growing DC division in the UK. The role covers the full spectrum of DC advisory work, requiring strong client relationship and governance experience, plus solid knowledge of investment and pension scheme investment considerations.

You will work within a team to deliver high-quality advice, support master trust/GPP reviews, and contribute to research outputs that feed into client guidance. Hybrid working is offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in the UK DC pension scheme advisory sector within a consultancy.
• Qualified or progressing towards FIA/FFA/CFA/PMI.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain client relations, ensuring needs are identified and met.
• Stay updated on market practice, legislation and DC governance requirements.
• Identify suitable investment strategies aligned to member goals.
• Assess investment structures and provider options for clients.
• Support investment manager selection and DC provider exercises.

Skills

UK DC pensions advisory

Communication skills

Commercial awareness

Education

FIA

FFA

CFA

PMI

Job description

DC Consultant

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) Consultant to join our growing specialist DC division. The role covers the wide spectrum of advice required by a DC scheme and we are looking for someone with both strong relationship and governance experience, as well as experience in investment and good technical pension scheme investment knowledge.

What will you be doing?

As a Consultant you will be:

• Building relations with clients, ensuring their needs are identified and met, driving forward the client relationship where appropriate
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of market practice, legislation and DC governance requirements
• Identifying suitable investment strategies in the context of the client’s specific membership
• Identifying suitable investment structures to implement strategies, taking into account individual client’s circumstances and preferences
• Conducting investment manager selection and DC providers’ exercises, supporting clients to reach decisions on managers and or providers
• Supporting clients with ongoing governance via regular meetings, working collaboratively with all stakeholders, focussing on improving member outcomes
• Supporting on various projects, including master trust / GPP reviews, selection exercises, the buy-out and wind-up of pension arrangements and AVC reviews
• Getting involved with DC research on master trust / GPP providers, keeping up to date with their evolving propositions and support the research output that feeds into advice to clients
• Drafting advice to a standard that you are happy to sign off
• Working within a team environment, providing leadership and guidance to less experienced team members

What skills, experience and qualities are we looking for?

• Qualified or making good progress towards FIA, FFA, CFA or PMI
• Demonstrable experience of working within the UK DC pension scheme advisory sector in a consultancy environment
• Excellent communication skills
• A commercial awareness

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 certified B-Corp, 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)
• 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!)

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

• 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 via our dedicated email address - to discuss how we can support you with your application