Job Description
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
We're hiring an Investment Proposition Analyst to join the Investment Solutions team within our Adviser & Customer function.
This is an excellent opportunity to build a career in investment propositions, working at the heart of how Royal London develops, manages and delivers investment solutions for customers, advisers and employers.
You'll support a range of established investment proposition activities, helping to ensure key processes run smoothly and efficiently. This includes responding to stakeholder queries, producing regular reporting and materials, supporting fund governance activities and coordinating proposition changes through agreed processes.
The role offers broad exposure across investment propositions, governance, communications and proposition delivery, providing a strong foundation for future development within Investment Solutions. As your knowledge and experience grow, you'll have opportunities to become involved in wider strategic initiatives, proposition developments, process improvements and reporting enhancements across the team.
About the role
- Support the day-to-day management of the Investment Solutions mailbox, triaging and responding to queries from internal and external stakeholders and ensuring requests are directed to the appropriate areas
- Produce and maintain regular investment proposition materials, ensuring outputs are accurate, timely and aligned to agreed standards
- Support the production and quality review of fund factsheets, performance reporting and other customer-facing investment materials
- Assist with the maintenance and delivery of investment performance reporting, including coordinating updates from external providers such as Lipper
- Support the implementation of Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) and Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) changes through established governance and operational processes
- Coordinate communications relating to investment proposition changes and corporate actions, working with stakeholders across the business to ensure timely delivery
- Assist in the production of management information and reporting to support team oversight and governance activities
- Maintain process documentation and help identify opportunities to improve efficiency, controls and stakeholder experience
- Build relationships across Investment Solutions, Operations, RLAM, Distribution and other key stakeholders
- Support ad hoc proposition, governance and change activities as required
About you
- An interest in investments, pensions and financial services, with a desire to build a career within investment propositions
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively
- Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to producing accurate, high-quality work
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Comfortable working with data and information, with the ability to identify issues and follow established processes
- A proactive and collaborative approach, with a willingness to learn and develop new skills
- Ability to build effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
- Experience in financial services, pensions, investments or a related environment would be beneficial but is not essential
- Progress towards, or an interest in studying for, an investment qualification such as the IMC would be advantageous
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Royal London is a purpose-driven mutual. Our Purpose, ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’, defines the impact we want to have. It shapes what we do on behalf of our members and customers, financial advisers, our colleagues and the communities in which we operate. Our People Promise is our collective commitment that our workplace will be inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling where all colleagues can thrive and experience a sense of belonging. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
Our inclusive values and people promise are core to who we are and how we work. It’s good for our people, and good for our customers too, because with an inclusive workplace and a diverse workforce we will reflect our members, customers and communities to deliver the best outcomes.
We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across our organisation. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected– whatever their background.
Workplace Initiatives
Program for parents returning to work after Parental Leave? |
No |
Leadership development programmes? |
Yes |
Mentoring programmes? |
Yes |
Coaching programmes? |
Yes |
Employee-led diversity networks? |
Yes |
Internal women’s networking groups? |
Yes |
Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? |
Yes |
No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: |
26 weeks (followed by 13 weeks half pay) |
Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: |
4 weeks |
Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
Gender pay gap reporting information 2022: |
|
Mean pay gap: |
35.3% |
Median pay gap: |
33.9% |
Mean bonus gap: |
70.4% |
Median bonus gap: |
48.5% |
Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? |
No |
Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? |
No |
Graduate Programmes
We have a number of graduate programmes designed to deliver technical experts and future leaders.
Royal London Career Confidence programme
Our hybrid programme focuses on equipping you to feel empowered in your career and supported to explore new opportunities as they arise.
Apprenticeships
We offer a wide range of Apprenticeships that are targeted at both new joiners and existing colleagues.
Inclusion
We promote an inclusive culture at Royal London and have a range of inclusion networks for our colleagues to get involved with.
Our Women's Network is a community that celebrates and supports its members, helps everyone to learn more and inspires all of us to aim higher. Confidence and development are strong themes here and our events focus on three key areas of team working, finance, and wellbeing. There are two sub-groups to the Women’s Network – Women in Technology and our Periods and Menopause Group – focused on actions such as supporting over 20 new Periods and Menopause champions and launching guidance and training for leaders.