Associate Consultant

at  Lane Clark Peacock

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 1000 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.
Acceptable candidates will have recent experience working in a pensions consultancy environment or large in-house pensions team and be able to communicate well with colleagues, clients and/or advisers in person, by phone and email.

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. Acceptable candidates 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 WILL YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES BE?

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

A key aspect of the role is to help deliver trustee secretarial and governance services to LCP’s clients. Acceptable candidates 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 provider