Ideal candidates

Ideally you will have all the skills and qualities we have set out below. However, we expect there will be candidates for this role who have a range of backgrounds and experience in pensions actuarial, pensions administration, and/or pensions software development. We are willing to work with the right person to help them gain the required knowledge but will be looking for evidence of the required drive and enthusiasm to fill these gaps over an appropriate timeframe.

• Sufficient breadth and depth of knowledge across pensions modelling that you will have credibility with key stakeholders in the business and the development team. We would ideally see a good working knowledge of areas such as:
  • First principles of technical defined benefit pension calculations, including (for example): anti-franking, GMP conversion, retirement options (eg bridge pensions, pension increase exchanges, etc), pensions tax limits, etc.
  • GMP equalisation methodologies.
• Comfortable with/the drive to become comfortable with the professional requirements of actuarial pensions liability modelling, this may include the following:
  • Professional qualification: eg IFoA, especially with a pensions focus
  • Demonstrable experience in the pensions industry, perhaps in a similar role/team with UK pensions
  • Experience testing or using actuarial modelling software to an expert level
• Excellent technical abilities, particularly in Excel, with experience of other programming languages (C#/VBA) highly desirable
• A consulting mindset and approach: solution focussed, able to respond quickly to changing circumstances and priorities as required, ability to communicate clearly and effectively to a range of stakeholders, and work on several projects and issues concurrently
• Experience contributing to and coordinating the delivery of complex projects with multiple stakeholders
• Enthusiastic and proactive about helping users across the business get the most value out of our tools
• A logical, methodical and thorough mindset – enjoys and is able to find the ‘gaps’
• A sense of pride in the quality of our tools and a desire to ensure they remain cutting edge

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:

• 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 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 - recruitment@lcp.co.uk - to discuss how we can support you with your application.

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 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 or candidate profiles are submitted to any employee or Partner at LCP.