Data Services Actuary; 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 Data Services team is rapidly expanding, as we increase our offering to clients, particularly in the de-risking space. The team work closely with expertise in other areas of LCP’s business and utilise our advanced technology to deliver solutions to our clients. To facilitate this growth, we are recruiting individuals with a knowledge of Defined Benefit pensions for client facing, technical roles to bolster our existing team.

We are seeking actuaries who are enthusiastic about working on dynamic and fast-paced projects, utilising your technical expertise to create and execute solutions, as well as providing advisory services to our clients.

What will you be doing?

You will be involved in a wide variety of strategic data projects, including:

• Preparing data for endgame strategies such as buy-ins, buy-outs and wind-ups
• Leading complex benefit rectification projects, such as GMP rectification and Barber window exercises
• Undertaking data cleanse projects for schemes, including benefit tranching and legacy scheme reconstruction
• Reviewing data to support member communication exercises or benefit changes
• Advising clients on data risks and supporting the development of scheme-level data strategies
• You’ll work with clients from across the market, including those administered outside of LCP who seek our expertise for discrete data-driven projects
• You’ll collaborate closely with LCP’s actuarial, administration and pension risk transfer teams, while also helping shape internal project methodologies and developing the next generation of tools and approaches

What skills and experience are we looking for?

• Excellent knowledge of DB pension schemes, with a Pensions Actuarial background (you may have qualified as an actuary or stopped studying for the exams)
• Demonstrable experience within a consultancy environment
• Ability to create bulk solutions to undertaken complex pension scheme calculations
• Able to prioritise workloads with conflicting importance, keeping to deadlines, agreed service levels and disclosure requirements
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly PowerPoint and Excel
• Keenness to take an active role to guarantee client satisfaction for the duration of projects and have a readiness to foster new relationships
• Able to work within agreed budgets and scopes

What qualities and behaviours will you be able to demonstrate?

• A willingness to establish excellent collaborative relationships with clients, external third parties, or suppliers
• Dedication to achieving client satisfaction, while also considering the requirements of the business
• Team player with the ability to build strong relationships
• Capable of strategic thinking and suggesting solutions, while also recognising potential risks and issues

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…