Business Area: Schroders Solutions, Client Solutions

Location: London

Job title: Solutions Analyst

About Schroders

We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

Schroders Solutions is a £235 billion global capability with employees in the UK, US, Singapore and Germany. Our dedicated solutions experts provide investment and advisory services to public and corporate pension schemes, official institutions, insurance companies, individual investors, intermediaries and wealth providers worldwide.

Schroders Solutions aims to be the provider of choice for pension schemes, offering an end-to-end solution through to buy-out. Working in partnership with our clients, Schroders Solutions delivers a consultative and structured approach to foster long-term relationships, with no changes to client strategy leads, contracts or mandates.

We have the commitment, reach and resource to help investors of all sizes, across client channels, to address the challenges of delivering desired investment and sustainable outcomes.

The base

We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We’re close to our clients, in the heart of the UK’s financial centre. And we have everything we need to work flexibly.

The team

The Schroders Solutions division currently looks after over £200bn in assets across DB, DC and Insurance clients, predominantly based in the UK. You'll be working in the Client Solutions team. We are responsible for the design and delivery of tailored investment strategies for our clients. We lead engagements with a range of pension scheme clients, bringing deep investment knowledge and investment strategy insights to our client relationships. We come from a variety of backgrounds including pensions, investment and actuarial consulting, solutions and asset management.

What you’ll do:

Support lead consultants in delivering a wide range of investment services for larger FM and OCIO clients, from designing investment strategy, developing solutions in response to changing market conditions, and meeting and building relationships with clients.Draft high-quality client materials in line with required timescales;Undertake numerical analysis using our in-house strategy development tools;Contributing towards new business opportunities, predominantly focused on UK DB but also other global non-pensions opportunities where relevant; andHelp to monitor pension scheme investment strategies

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need:

An understanding of UK DB pension scheme assets and liabilities, including a range of asset classes, and the use of derivatives to manage risk;Good knowledge of pension scheme investment strategiesAt least a basic knowledge of pension scheme industry trends and topical issues; andPrior work experience in investment consultancy, asset management or actuarial firms.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help:

Good organisational and internal communication skills. Able to manage multiple competing workstreams and priorities, keeping colleagues updated;Although not required, at least partial completion of either CFA or actuarial qualifications is desirable; andExperience of working directly with clients, including presenting.

What you’ll be like:

Well organised;Strong project manager;Good Communicator;Enjoys understanding technical detail; andFlexible, highly curious and willing to learn.

We recognise potential, whoever you are.

Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought facilitated by an inclusive culture will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer: you are welcome here regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or any other protected characteristics.

Business Area: Schroders Solutions, Client Solutions

Location: London

Job title: Solutions Analyst

About Schroders

We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

Schroders Solutions is a £235 billion global capability with employees in the UK, US, Singapore and Germany. Our dedicated solutions experts provide investment and advisory services to public and corporate pension schemes, official institutions, insurance companies, individual investors, intermediaries and wealth providers worldwide.

Schroders Solutions aims to be the provider of choice for pension schemes, offering an end-to-end solution through to buy-out. Working in partnership with our clients, Schroders Solutions delivers a consultative and structured approach to foster long-term relationships, with no changes to client strategy leads, contracts or mandates.

We have the commitment, reach and resource to help investors of all sizes, across client channels, to address the challenges of delivering desired investment and sustainable outcomes.

The base

We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We’re close to our clients, in the heart of the UK’s financial centre. And we have everything we need to work flexibly.

The team

The Schroders Solutions division currently looks after over £200bn in assets across DB, DC and Insurance clients, predominantly based in the UK. You'll be working in the Client Solutions team. We are responsible for the design and delivery of tailored investment strategies for our clients. We lead engagements with a range of pension scheme clients, bringing deep investment knowledge and investment strategy insights to our client relationships. We come from a variety of backgrounds including pensions, investment and actuarial consulting, solutions and asset management.

What you’ll do:

Support lead consultants in delivering a wide range of investment services for larger FM and OCIO clients, from designing investment strategy, developing solutions in response to changing market conditions, and meeting and building relationships with clients.Draft high-quality client materials in line with required timescales;Undertake numerical analysis using our in-house strategy development tools;Contributing towards new business opportunities, predominantly focused on UK DB but also other global non-pensions opportunities where relevant; andHelp to monitor pension scheme investment strategies

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need:

An understanding of UK DB pension scheme assets and liabilities, including a range of asset classes, and the use of derivatives to manage risk;Good knowledge of pension scheme investment strategiesAt least a basic knowledge of pension scheme industry trends and topical issues; andPrior work experience in investment consultancy, asset management or actuarial firms.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help:

Good organisational and internal communication skills. Able to manage multiple competing workstreams and priorities, keeping colleagues updated;Although not required, at least partial completion of either CFA or actuarial qualifications is desirable; andExperience of working directly with clients, including presenting.

What you’ll be like:

Well organised;Strong project manager;Good Communicator;Enjoys understanding technical detail; andFlexible, highly curious and willing to learn.

We recognise potential, whoever you are.

Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought facilitated by an inclusive culture will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer: you are welcome here regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or any other protected characteristics.