Investment Consultant

You will be expected to do a range of investment work to support objectives, to be agreed depending on your particular skills, interests and experience. This may include:

• Exploring investment market-wide risks across system, through market engagements and internal data and intel analysing, and considering how these influence policy development and supervision of pension schemes
• Providing investment advice on financial stability initiatives, especially on risks and transmission of risks within the financial system. Interacting with internal and external stakeholders on emerging pensions / investment issues
• Leading discussions with other regulators on financial stability related issues, for example the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority Developing investment policy and guidance on areas of emerging legislation, such as value for money, private markets and climate change
• Advising colleagues on schemes' investment strategies (DB and DC)
• Working on policy and supervisory frameworks for CDC schemes and Superfunds
• Providing training to wider colleagues on investment issues and developments
• Sharing investment knowledge with the rest of investment team and more widely as appropriate

Key skills required:-

• Broad knowledge of investment across all asset classes
• Independent thinking and able to think through issues from first principles
• Thoughtful approach and can connect the dots to find the big picture
• A network of contacts across the pensions and/or regulatory landscape
• Writing skills and able to illustrate technical details for a broad audience
• Up-to-date knowledge of workplace pension fund investment
• Experience of working with workplace pension funds on investment issues, communication and influencing skills at all levels of seniority
• In-depth knowledge of UK Pensions landscape covering DB and DC

In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.