The Vacancy

Our Defined Contribution Consulting (DCC) Business Unit works with all types of DC Pension schemes to provide advice on investment strategy, portfolio construction and implementation, as well as working with product providers and retail advisors to deliver the latest investment proposition innovation.

This offering is a key component of our consulting services and helps firmly establish us as a UK market leader in this area. Our diverse client base for these services spans both corporate and trustee bodies across a wide variety of business and industry sectors, as well as local government pension schemes and other public sector clients.

As part of our continued growth, we have an exciting opportunity to join this Business Unit as an Associate Consultant, and we are excited to welcome applications for this role.

What will your role look like?

As an Associate Consultant you will play a key role in within the Business Unit and will provide practical support to our client facing consultants.

A key part of this role will be to formulate advice for all aspects of our DC Consulting Service for peer review by our experienced consultants. This will include areas such as pension scheme vehicle advice, investment advice, at retirement advice, pension benefit design and provider platform assessments.

Alongside this you’ll become the day to day point of contact for many of our clients and will help to ensure that we are able to deliver on their expectations by coordinating the completion of work assigned to yourself and other client team members. You’ll also have the opportunity to direct and delegate work to more junior members of the team, and act as a ‘checker’ for the work that they complete.

If you enjoy and have experience of the following, we think you’ll love this opportunity:

• Previous experience of working within the UK Pensions Market, gained in either a DC or DB background.
• Awareness of the investment options used by DC arrangements.
• The ability to build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Working with large sets of detailed data and other forms of information
• Strong attention to detail, with excellent organisational skills and the ability to work quickly and accurately.
• A fun and fast-paced working environment, where you are encouraged to collaborate with your colleagues.

We expect those with an interest to be studying towards an industry recognised qualification, such as the IFoA, CFA or other related qualification – or to be open to beginning their journey towards this. We would also be happy for someone to specialise in investment work, in line with studying for an investment qualification.

A more detailed list of requirements for this position is available within the role profile – which is available on request.

In addition to a competitive salary and access to our profit share scheme, we offer:

• A flexible selection of employee benefits, so you can choose a package that best matches your lifestyle and needs.
• A collaborative and supportive work environment where your thinking and ideas are encouraged.
• On site mental health and wellbeing support
• A commitment to helping you develop both personally and professionally, with mentoring opportunities and access to our award-winning learning portal, Aspire.
• Regular social activities, in addition to three days paid volunteering leave each year and a day’s leave to celebrate your birthday.

We are open to this role being based in any of our four UK based offices – London, Birmingham, Edinburgh or Glasgow. And we offer hybrid working so you can enjoy the positive wellbeing of working from home as well as the benefits of meeting colleagues in our sociable, modern office environments.

We are continually working to improve our inclusive culture and employ diverse talent. We therefore welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, which includes but isn’t limited to: age, disability, ethnic heritage, gender, marital or civil partnership status, neurodiversity, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background.

First stage interviews for this position will likely be held during the weeks beginning 12th and 19th February.

About Us

Together, we’ve been building better futures for over 100 years. For our people, our clients and their people, our communities and the environment.

We thrive on tackling complex problems. And we believe those problems are best solved by diverse teams – diverse in skills, approaches and backgrounds. Our independence lets our people be themselves and think freely, while working in a collaborative, supportive environment.  We love innovative, independent thinking and want everyone to share their ideas.

Working alongside employers, trustees and financial services institutions, we offer pensions, investments, benefits and risk consulting services, as well as data and technology solutions. With over 1000 employees and counting, we’re one of the leading consultancies in our field and are proud to be recognised by numerous industry awards.

We’re committed to developing our people and encourage everyone to carve out their own career path. We’ve many colleagues who started out in one team in the business and have ended up somewhere completely different, having had the chance to develop new skills and explore new passions.

Our hybrid working model offers the best of both worlds – home working as well as a fun, collaborative office environment – meaning flexible working patterns to accommodate individual needs. For more information about our benefits you can visit our iDeal.

If you need any assistance in relation to a personal requirement, medical condition or neurological difference during our selection process then please let us know.

Together, we can make this the best job you’ll ever have.

We Offer

Our culture – We live and breathe our four values – friendly, confident, partnering and straightforward – and genuinely care about out people, clients, community and the environment.

Job satisfaction – Every employee can genuinely make a difference and contribute towards achieving our purpose – together, building better futures. Whether that’s helping our clients build more secure financial futures, using your 3 days volunteering or helping us reduce our carbon footprint.

Reward and wellbeing – We offer competitive salaries, a share of company profits and an award-winning benefits package. We also take your mental, physical, social and financial wellbeing seriously, both in and outside of work.

Flexible working – We trust our people to work in a pattern that suits their circumstances with a healthy balance of home and office working.

Latest technology – We use the most up-to-date technology and software to match our ground-breaking business solutions that make life easier for us and our clients.

Career development – There is no linear path – learning opportunities are plentiful and empower you to carve out your own career.