Associate Consultant

LCP is an award-winning consultancy providing advice on pensions, investments, insurance, energy, health analytics and employee benefits. We advise nearly one quarter of the FTSE250 and half of the FTSE100 firms. We are a team of over 1200 across our offices in London and Winchester.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual who is keen to develop a pensions career in a successful and growing firm, who has recent experience working in a pensions consultancy environment or large in-house pensions team, and is able to communicate well with colleagues, clients and/or advisers in person, by phone and email.

What will you be doing?

• Getting involved in a broad mixture of client and non-client work
• Joining a number of client teams of varying sizes, each made up of people ranging from analyst to partner level
• You'll be encouraged to develop your skills, knowledge and understanding in all aspects of the pensions and benefits field
• Participating in a training program covering technical, IT, consulting and soft skills.
• Working with and learning from experienced colleagues
• Receiving support in studying towards relevant professional exams including mentoring, study leave, study materials and tutorials
• Developing, over time, the skills required to be an effective and successful consultant
• To be able to take every opportunity to progress at LCP
• You'll be rewarded for ability, commitment and performance

What skills and qualities are we looking for?

A key aspect of the role is to help deliver trustee secretarial and governance services to LCP’s clients. To be successful, you must have prior experience in providing trustee secretarial and scheme management services to trust-based pension arrangements. This should include:

• Organising trustee meetings, drafting agendas, producing meeting packs, preparing trustee papers, producing and managing an actions log
• Working knowledge of trustee documents such as a calendar of events, conflicts registers, risk registers and training logs
• Dealing with regulatory bodies and third party providers

Experience in some or all of the following areas would be beneficial:

• Acting as a named Trustee Secretary
• Attending trustee meetings and presenting items
• Preparing high quality trustee meeting minutes
• Drafting communications and delivering presentations
• Supporting trustee sub-committees
• Managing member nominated trustee exercises
• Managing the audit process
• Monitoring invoices and budgets

Experience in some or all of these areas would be valuable (but is not essential). We will fully support staff in developing their skills and experience in any new areas.

• Enthusiastic individual with experience in a similar role, must be comfortable working both independently and as part of a team
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with impressive grammar skills for proofreading and writing correspondence
• Excellent attention to details
• Numerate – knowledge of very basic accountancy would be helpful but not essential
• Competent across Microsoft Office applications including strong knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and willing to be trained on in-house systems, house style, billing process, D365 and potentially InDesign as need arises
• Comfortable with multi-tasking at pace and highly skilled in prioritising tasks and organising work effectively to meet deadlines including in the presence of competing priorities and demand

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 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
• Digital GP services

For your wealth:

• Competitive pension scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• High street discounts

For others:

• 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.

LCP currently holds a sponsorship license for skilled worker visas, allowing us to assist with applications aligning with the UK Government's criteria for skilled worker sponsorship. If you anticipate needing sponsorship for a skilled worker visa, we recommend reviewing the sponsorship criteria for your desired role before applying to LCP.

Recruitment agencies

LCP operates a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for recruitment agencies which is reviewed annually. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies who are not part of our current PSL. 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 are submitted to any employee or Partner at LCP.