Pension Administration Consultant

Lane Clark & Peacock LLP.; Greater London, Winchester; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Professional study support

Wellbeing networks

Life assurance

Income protection

Pension scheme

Cycle to work

Private medical insurance

Annual leave

Job summary

Lane Clark & Peacock LLP is seeking a pensions administration consultant in our Winchester office. You will oversee day-to-day client work, coordinate teams, and liaise with stakeholders to deliver high-quality service aligned with the client’s strategic direction.

Key requirements include APMI or equivalent, strong DB pensions knowledge, excellent communication, and a proactive, commercially aware approach.

Qualifications

• APMI or similar professional qualification is required.
• Demonstrable DB pensions administration experience within a similar setting.
• Excellent technical knowledge of DB pension schemes.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills across a wide range of audiences.
• Calm, positive in manner and able to manage workload and priorities.
• Interest in developing others and a commercial outlook.

Responsibilities

• Review work produced by junior team members for accuracy and reasonableness.
• Ensure compliance tasks are completed timely and letters updated.
• Stay up to date with legislation and client changes affecting schemes.
• Manage client relationships and identify commercial opportunities.
• Monitor monthly billing and project budgets to ensure on-time delivery.
• Attend client meetings and represent the department across the business.
• Share knowledge through training and information sessions.

Education

APMI or similar professional qualification

Job description

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.

We have exciting opportunities to further you career in pensions administration in our Winchester office as a consultant.

What's the role and what will you will be doing?

As a consultant in our pensions administration department you will have day to day responsibility for our clients and the teams that carry out the work for them. You will liaise with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure that a high quality service is delivered whilst ensuring that the management of the client is aligned to the strategic direction set out by the client partner.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

• Reviewing work that has been produced and checked by more junior team members including method, arithmetic and overall reasonableness
• Ensuring all compliance matters are completed in good time, making sure standard letters are kept up-to-date
• Keeping up to date and well informed on the latest legislative issues/changes and client specific changes, ensuring that scheme events are well planned for and resourced in advance
• Taking responsibility for the client relationship, building rapport with their contacts in the process
• Seizing upon opportunities to present new commercial opportunities for the business, developing an understanding of the client's fee basis and their attitude towards fees
• Responsibility for monthly billing, monitoring budgets for particular projects and ensuring these are delivered on time and in budget
• Attendance at client meetings and networking events as appropriate
• Representing the department across the wider business
• Actively looking for opportunities to share knowledge with the department and wider business through training and information sharing
• And much more!

What experience, skills and qualities do you require for this position?

• APMI or similar professional qualification
• Demonstrable DB pensions administration experience within a similar setting
• Excellent technical knowledge and understanding of DB pension schemes
• Excellent communication and presentation skills across a wide range of audiences
• Calm and positive in manner, leads by example
• The ability to manage your own workload and prioritise as needed
• A genuine interest in and desire to develop others
• Commercial outlook

What’s in it for you?

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:

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
• Cycle to work scheme
• Digital GP services

For your wealth:

• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 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.

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

Recruitment agencies

LCP operates a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for recruitment agencies which is reviewed annually. We do not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from agencies who are not part of our currentPSL. LCP only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place, and the agency has been instructed by a member of our recruitment team to supply CVs via the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for a legitimate, open vacancy. If this process is not adhered to, LCP reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and have discussions with them without paying any agency fees. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles are submitted to any employee or Partner at LCP.