Head of Pensions Investment – Funding
Lloyds Banking Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Edinburgh • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Lead
About the role
- Shape the future of DB and DC schemes by leading the Pensions Investment and Funding Team
- Develop and implement investment and funding strategies that deliver high-quality outcomes for members
- Responsible for the day-to-day oversight of schemes’ investment and funding arrangements
- Maintain effective working relationships with the Trustee, Advisers, Fund Managers, Regulators and the Company
- Provide analysis, views and challenge to support the Trustee in developing suitable investment strategies
- Manage the portfolio within delegated authorities, maintaining hedges, responding to threats and opportunities
- Deliver regular performance, risk and management information and reports for oversight
Requirements
- Proven leader with demonstrable success in a large organisation, ideally with experience working for a major pension fund or in a senior investment role
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, able to manage relationships in a politically sensitive way
- Proven experience of navigating highly complex and technical pension funding and investment concepts
- Knowledge and understanding of liability structures and actuarial assumptions
- Broad investment knowledge across multiple asset classes and sub-classes, derivatives and leverage
- CFA or FIA qualification desirable.
Benefits
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives
- Generous parental leave policies
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
investment strategiesfunding strategiesportfolio managementrisk managementperformance analysisliability structuresactuarial assumptionsasset classesderivativesleverage
Soft skills
leadershipstakeholder managementrelationship managementpolitical sensitivityanalytical skillscommunication skillsteam collaborationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingdecision-making
Certifications
CFAFIA