Post Transaction Specialist (Consultant / Senior Consultant)

Lane Clark & Peacock LLP; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in London is looking for an experienced Post Transaction Specialist to join their award-winning Pension Risk Transfer team. The role involves managing client projects, ensuring smooth transitions from buy-in to buy-out, and leveraging your expertise in UK pension processes. Ideal candidates are skilled in project management, possess strong communication abilities, and are dedicated to achieving client satisfaction. An attractive benefits package, including hybrid working and professional development opportunities, awaits successful applicants.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Professional study support

26 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Volunteering opportunities

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in a pensions consulting environment or with a bulk annuity provider.
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to develop detailed project plans.
• Experience of overseeing financial aspects and managing risks associated with projects.

Responsibilities

• Assist schemes as they navigate the transition from buy-in to buy-out.
• Build relationships with clients and insurers to ensure smooth transitions.
• Support clients as they move schemes to ultimate wind-up within desired timescales.

Skills

Pensions consulting experience

Insurer post transaction processes

UK pensions technical knowledge

Project management skills

Strong collaborative relationships

Excellent communication skills

Job description

Overview

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Post Transaction Specialist (Consultant / Senior Consultant)

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. Working across a wide range of sectors, including pensions and benefits, investments, insurance, energy, health, sports, and data analytics, we help our clients navigate complexity in order to take the action that matters.

Our award-winning specialist Pension Risk Transfer team is the largest and most experienced de-risking team in the market. With the significant increase in pension risk transfer activity, we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced consultant or senior consultant who is enthusiastic about risk transfer projects and passionate about achieving good outcomes for trustees, sponsors and members alike, to join our highly successful Post Transaction Team as we expand our capabilities.

Who are the team?

Our market-leading Post Transaction team consists of over 35 experienced practitioners who support trustees and sponsors to plan and execute the successful transition of their pension schemes to buy-out and wind-up. The team work closely with LCP's specialist Pension Risk Transfer team and other areas of LCP's business to ensure a seamless end-to-end process from completing a buy-in transaction right through to ultimate wind-up.

The team is unique in the market in its range of skills, depth of experience and robust project management capabilities, including strong, trusted relationships with insurer teams and detailed understanding of insurer processes and wider legislative requirements.

What will you be doing?

Our clients are a mixture of existing LCP clients, and clients with incumbent advisers seeking LCP's independent de-risking expertise to meet their strategic objectives.

• Working on a variety of projects to assist schemes as they navigate the move from completing a buy-in transaction, to buy-out and ultimate wind-up
• Build relationships with your clients, their advisers and insurers to ensure a smooth and successful transition to buy-out and wind-up, actively project managing the process to ensure it progresses in a timely fashion, giving peace of mind that the necessary steps have been undertaken and finding pragmatic solutions to any issues that arise
• Utilising your project management skills, depth of experience and collaborative approach, you will support clients as they move their schemes to ultimate wind-up within their desired timescales
• Contribute to the strategy of the wider team, attend networking events/conferences and contribute to new business tenders

What skills, qualities and experience are we looking for?

• Demonstrable experience in a pensions consulting environment or with a bulk annuity provider
• Proven experience of insurer post transaction processes and wider aspects of pension scheme wind-ups
• Excellent UK pensions technical knowledge and understanding of legislative requirements around wind-ups
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to develop detailed project plans and drive forward completion of tasks against timescales
• Ability to establish strong collaborative working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including other advisers, insurers, trustee boards and sponsoring employers
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Experience in leading and delivering presentations at client meetings
• Proactive and solutions-driven approach and ready to 'hit the ground running'
• Capable of strategic thinking and suggesting solutions, whilst also recognising potential risks and issues
• Enjoy taking an active role to guarantee client satisfaction for the duration of projects and have a willingness to foster new client relationships
• Evidence of overseeing financial aspects and managing risks associated with projects
• Experience of new business tenders is desirable
• Dedication to achieving client satisfaction, while also considering the requirements of the business
• Desire to develop, coach and mentor junior team members

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
• 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

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 questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch via our dedicated email address - [e-mail] to discuss how we can support you with your application.

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