Santander

Senior Investment Associate | S3 | Santander Asset Management | London


PayCompetitive
LocationLondon/England
Employment typeFull-Time

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  • Job Description

      Req#: Req1246831
      Senior Investment Associate | S3 | Santander Asset Management | London

      Country: United Kingdom

      Join our community.

      In this critical, permanent role within the Strategic Investment Solutions (SIS) team, you’ll be report to the Senior Business Manager – Front Office.

      You’ll be integral in ensuring that SAM UK’s investment business operates within a framework to achieve its performance objectives and client outcomes.

      You’ll oversee the ongoing monitoring and analysis of portfolio and portfolio manager’s performance report the outcomes to relevant governance forums.

      If you’ve performed a similar role previously, this could be the perfect opportunity to develop your career.

      The difference you’ll make .

      • Day-to-day responsibility for the ongoing monitoring and analysis of several portfolios and portfolio managers’ performance
      • Overseeing the completion of initial and ongoing due diligence and reporting outcomes to relevant governance forums
      • Ensuring portfolios are positioned in line with investment guidelines and regulations
      • Supporting the production and delivery of client reporting in line with reporting timetable, ensuring sufficient time for internal review processes
      • Creating and the ongoing production of relevant team MI including KPIs and KRIs
      • Working closely with and developing excellent relationships with internal teams including Portfolio Managers, Risk, Compliance and Product
      • Drafting, documenting, and maintaining team procedures and policies and ensure that all team related outputs are filed in a logical manner and retained in line with regulatory record keeping requirements

      What you’ll bring.

      • Proven experience in evaluating and monitoring third party managers and portfolios and portfolio construction
      • Excellent understanding of investment markets, asset classes, and investment strategies, both single and multi-asset

      It would also be nice for you to have.

      • High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Power BI) and programming languages (VBA, Python).
      • Familiarity with systems such as Aladdin (or other Risk/Performance/Investment Management systems)
      • Ability to quickly form effective working relationships including with colleagues in overseas offices
      • A willing attitude and an ability and commitment to learning new skills and providing a high standard of support to the team

      What else you need to know.

      We are a global asset manager with extensive local knowledge in Europe and Latin America, working as a single firm in 10 major markets and with more than 50 years of experience. We are a fund manager that combines the best of complementary worlds, technology and expertise, to provide optimal solutions for our clients.

      Our aim is simple: to be the best-in-class investment solution provider in Europe and the Americas by building long-term relationships with our clients by providing:

      • A best-in-class service model
      • World class product solutions
      • Commercially driven organisation
      • People focused, with a strong sense of purpose which attracts, develops and retains talent

      We want our people to thrive at work and home, and we recognise that many people benefit from flexible arrangements. To enable us to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop we understand the importance of having the right balance of spending time together in an office while maintaining flexibility.

      By working this way, we can continue to create moments that matter for everyone. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and we’re happy to discuss specific requirements throughout the recruitment process.

      This role is based in our London and our current expectation is at least 2 days in the office every week.

      We operate an on-call arrangement over Public Holidays, providing a day in lieu for on-call colleagues. Please speak to the recruitment team for more details.

      Everyday Inclusion

      At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

      How we’ll reward you.

      As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

      • Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus up to 40% salary
      • We put 15% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself
      • Hybrid ways of working, working with your manager to agree flexibility in how you meet the requirements of your role
      • 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
      • Company funded individual private medical and dental insurance.
      • Other voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates
      • Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover

      What to do next.

      If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

      If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at resourcing@santander.co.uk or call 0870 414 9080.

  • About the company

      Our work touches 140 million lives every day. How? By always innovating, sharing our experiences, questioning how we do things and adapting to new challenges. As we keep reinventing ourselves for the digital age, you’ll find that with us, even your smallest action will have a massive impact. That’s the Santander Effect.