Junior Investment Analyst - Salary Circa £37,500 – £40,000

This role is an exciting opportunity to join the Annuity Asset Origination (AAO) team, which supports Aviva’s market leading Annuity and Equity Release business.

The team’s purpose is to enable the investment in assets to back annuity liabilities, which consistently achieves annual volumes of c.£7bn, by working with asset managers to source and negotiate asset investments, drafting analysis and recommendations for investment committees, and expand our ability to invest in new asset classes.

The role provides a unique opportunity to develop investment expertise and market knowledge across a wide range of fixed income asset classes, including infrastructure, real estate debt, structured finance, and private placements in the private markets, as well as corporate, sovereign and supranational, and emerging market debt in the public markets.

A bit about the job:

• Conducting commercial assessments across illiquid and liquid asset investment opportunities through regular interaction with asset managers, Credit Risk and ALM teams.

• Drafting management information reports on asset investment performance and market commentary for the Annuity Senior Leadership team, Group Chief Investment Officer and Life Company Chief Financial Officer.

• Analysis of portfolio construction and performance forecasting for annuity pricing.

• Working on the design, development and usage of quantitatively oriented investment-related models, techniques, and tools.

• Supporting our Sustainable Investments team in developing analysis and strategy to achieve Aviva’s £6bn green investment target by 2025.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Confidence with numerical and quantitative analysis; with preference for a quantitative or financial degree.

• Keen interest in fixed income investments; understanding of liability driven investing beneficial.

• Ability to intuitively understand and concisely summarise multi-dimensional decision-making considerations and draft compelling investment rationale and recommendations.

• Understanding of market risk management fundamentals, including use of vanilla derivatives to hedge interest rate and cross-currency exposures.

• Advanced Excel skills, basic coding ability beneficial.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Salary Circa £37,500 – £40,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity 8% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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