Location
London

Hours
Full Time (details not specified)

Salary
Competitive (details not specified)

About the Role
Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) is an award-winning actuarial and analytics consultancy providing market-leading capabilities and advice across pensions and financial services, energy, health, and analytics. The Pensions & Investment technology department develops and maintains a range of models supporting LCP’s defined benefit pension schemes consulting business across Pensions Actuarial, Pensions Administration, and Investment Consulting departments. The department comprises three teams: Pulse (pensions administration systems), CALM (benefit calculation systems), and Visualise (asset liability modelling “ALM”). This role is a senior, non-developer position within the Visualise team, which is LCP’s flagship ALM tool. Visualise enables clients to view key metrics and analysis across administration, covenant, funding, and investment, and supports internal users in sophisticated modelling to provide expert advice.

The tool primarily serves UK defined benefit pension schemes but is evolving to meet the needs of a broader client base including CDC arrangements, charities, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, and central banks. The Visualise team members have diverse skills across pensions, investment knowledge, and software development, united by a passion for problem solving and delivering high-quality solutions.

Key responsibilities include working with business and development teams on new features and developments, developing and agreeing specifications, communicating new features to the business, documentation and training, ensuring the system meets professional actuarial model requirements through rigorous testing, advising sophisticated internal users on maximizing value from ALM tools, sharing pensions and investment knowledge within the team, and supporting and improving a large existing system to adapt to changing business needs.

Experience
- Sufficient breadth and depth of knowledge in at least one of investment or pensions modelling to establish credibility with key stakeholders and the development team.
- Ideally good working knowledge of various types of investments including derivatives and private market assets.
- Familiarity with the current UK pensions funding regime, including recovery plans and surplus release.
- Comfortable with or motivated to become comfortable with professional requirements of actuarial pensions asset-liability modelling.
- Strong indicators (not mandatory): professional qualifications such as CFA or IFoA (especially with investment focus), experience in the investment industry, experience testing or using actuarial or investment modelling software at an expert level.

About you
- Enthusiastic and proactive about helping users across the business get the most value from ALM tools.
- Logical, methodical, and thorough mindset.
- Takes pride in the quality of tools and strives to keep them cutting edge.
- Experience managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
- Skilled in communicating and passing on technical investment and actuarial knowledge to less experienced colleagues.
- Drive and enthusiasm to fill any knowledge gaps in pensions or investment over an appropriate timeframe.

Qualifications
- Professional qualifications such as CFA or IFoA are strong indicators but not essential.
- Willingness to learn sophisticated technical aspects of investment asset monitoring and modelling, including stochastic modelling, Value at Risk calculations, scenario and stress testing, sensitivity and exposure modelling, cashflow matching, and performance calculations.
- Willingness to learn technical aspects of pension funding and liability modelling, including modelling future pension benefit cashflows with inflation caps and collars, stochastic modelling, scenario and stress testing, and different funding methodologies including asset-led funding and insurer pricing.