Associate Investment 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. 

We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious associate consultant, with demonstrable experience in the UK DB pension investment consulting sector, to join our team in London or Winchester.

Who are the team?

Our experienced and independent investment consulting team have over 25 years advising a range of global institutional clients. We use innovative technology developed in-house to improve our clients’ decision-making, supported by our global manager research coverage.

If you desire to be part of a client and people focussed organisation where opportunities to work with senior, well know industry professional are the rule, not the exception and where you will be supported to develop your skills to make you the best you can be then we would love to hear from you!

What will you be doing?

• Assisting consultants in identifying suitable investment strategies
• Identifying suitable investment structures to implement strategies, taking into account individual client’s circumstances and preferences
• Calculating investment performance figures for performance monitoring purposes
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of market practice and legislation
• Drafting performance monitoring reports, including commentary, to a level where the report needs only a brief review by the signatory
• Understanding the basis of transfers of assets between investment managers and liaise with managers during the transfer
• Undertaking performance and risk assessment of portfolios
• Reviewing work done by other staff, including both detailed checks and a check for overall reasonableness

Over time there may be opportunities to work on the development and coding of our technology, and/or to conduct investment manager research, formulating views on investment manager's capabilities.

What experience, qualities and skills are we looking for?

• Demonstrable experience in a  pension fund investment consultancy or have a background in a pensions consultancy, with some direct experience in an investment advisory role for at least a year
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, including drafting advice that you would be happy to sign
• Time management and delegation skills, to juggle variable, sometimes high, workloads
• The ability to work to agreed deadlines and give regular unsolicited progress reports
• Good Excel and project management skills
• The ability to gain the confidence of partners and other colleagues
• A team player who participates positively in team discussions
• Open to sharing ideas and presenting persuasive arguments
• A keen commercial awareness

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our Glassdoor page 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 - accessibilityaware@lcp.uk.com to discuss how we can support you with your application.