Investment Associate Consultant/Consultant (technology focus)

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 now have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Consultant or Consultant with a focus on asset modelling to join a growing team responsible for developing our investment technology offering as well as maintaining current technology and servicing wide range of existing clients.

What will you be doing?

• Developing new asset modelling tools including for monitoring, portfolio analysis and strategic investment modelling tools
• Working with development teams to specify, test and roll out investment modelling technology
• Assisting client teams with operating investment modelling tools
• Assisting with stochastic scenario generation and validation
• Assisting with generation and validation of yield curves and other investment assumptions
• Operating stochastic ALM models for risk analysis and strategic reviews
• Helping prepare and present modelling outputs for internal and external clients

What technical skills are we looking for?

• Experience of asset liability modelling and its application to providing strategic investment advice to investment clients (principally pension schemes but also other asset owners)
• Experience of investment monitoring (e.g., performance monitoring, attribution and reporting) and its application for investment clients
• Experience of designing / developing such models and dealing with internal and external stakeholders’ requirements to deliver functionality that will be used across the Investment department and externally
• Technical investment knowledge of various types of investments
• Understanding and experience of working with Economic Scenario Generators and Asset liability models
• Experience working with development teams in the design of new functionality for technological applications, including the drafting of specification documents, testing and user training
• The ability to identify and implement improvements to models, enthusiasm for developing efficient models and processes
• Excellent Excel skills
• An understanding of programming languages (R, C#, VBA) and/or desire to learn would be desirable but not essential

What other skills and qualities are we looking for?

• The ability to delegate tasks effectively and juggle variable, sometimes high, workloads
• A willingness to share ideas and present persuasive arguments
• Excellent attention details along with prioritising work skills
• A commercial awareness
• Team player

What’s in it for you?

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!), options to buy & sell holiday, discounted gym memberships, private medical, 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

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 with Karina Lee, Angie Lewis and Julie Newall via our dedicated email address - accessibilityaware@lcp.uk.com to discuss how we can support you with your application.