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At abrdn, we empower our clients to plan, save and invest for their futures.
We structure our business into three areas – and together they reflect our focus on enabling our clients to be better investors:
- Investments: We work with clients to create solutions across markets, asset classes and investment strategies – combining our global network of investment professionals with research, data and technology.
- Adviser: We offer market-leading platform technology and tools that enable UK wealth managers and financial advisers to look after the diverse needs of their clients.
- Personal: We help people throughout the UK plan for their financial futures – through our financial planning business, our digital direct-to-consumer services and discretionary fund management services.
Through the expertise, insight and innovation of our team, we aim to help clients create more ways for money to make an impact. We set our sights on giving them more confidence to achieve their goals, and more clarity about what they need next. And we focus on delivering outcomes that are more than just financial – by investing sustainably to build a better world.
We’re a global business. We manage and administer £532 billion of assets for our clients, and we have over 1 million shareholders.
About the Internship Programme
The opportunity to join us as an intern is one that is unique, challenging and rewarding. We are currently looking for world-class talent to join our summer internship programme running from June – August 2022 in our Edinburgh offices within our Commercial and Strategy Department.
Our Commercial and Strategy area sets up and supports our Adviser and Personal Vectors for commercial success. It is responsible for developing and validating our strategy to deliver our commercial ambition and plan; provides analysis and information to support teams across the Vectors to make better, more informed decisions; and assesses the commercial impact and success of key business decisions.
We look for people who are highly numerate, with strong commercial awareness and excellent relationship building skills. An ability to clearly summarise business problems and data analysis, bringing problems and solutions to life in an easy to understand way is important too – to help you communicate clearly with whomever you’re working with and to help enable robust commercial decisions.
From day one, you’ll contribute to our ambitions whilst developing your skills and knowledge. Over the 10 week summer placement you will be given real work with tangible outputs within our Commercial and Strategy Department, allowing you to gain exposure to real investment and business situations, with real responsibility.
Regardless of which team you join within the Commercial and Strategy Department you will gain a depth of experience; getting the opportunity to work with seasoned professionals across our business and engage in development activities with your peers on the internship programme. You will be based with the same team throughout the placement.
During the 10 week internship programme you will build knowledge within the department you are in as well as having the opportunity to build a network with other interns and wider colleagues.
As well as on the job learning, you will have access to a wide range of e-learning courses and complete a structured development programme over 10 weeks that includes training, networking and gaining exposure to senior stakeholders across the business.
On completion of your summer internship you will be considered for a position on our rotational actuarial graduate programme starting in September 2023. This programme gives graduates the chance to start their career in a highly supportive team environment, whilst gaining skills, experience along with support through your actuarial qualification.
What Our Graduate Programme Offers
Our graduate development programmes provides you with the opportunity to rotate around the business on 18-24 month placements giving you exposure to the wider business.
Graduates will have the opportunity to work in multiple teams across our business, with roles covering a wide variety of opportunities from strategy development, to assessing the commercial success of new propositions, to risk management. Our rotational programme will help you gain insight into how the different business areas help to support our focus on enabling our client to be better investors, developing your ability to understand the needs of different stakeholders, all whilst ensuring the commercial success of abrdn.
To support our graduates to get going quickly we provide an extensive induction giving you access to hear from senior professionals across the company, complete soft and technical skills training courses and get to know your cohort of graduates.
Further to the formal structured development programme and rotational opportunities, as a graduate you will be supported to work towards the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries qualification.
About You
We are looking for penultimate or final year graduates, from a numerical based degree, who can demonstrate the following capabilities:
- Performance driven;
- Customer & client focused;
- Collaboration & Influence;
- Strategic thinking;
- Futurist mindset;
- Inclusive & empowering leadership.
Application Process
At the online application stage of the recruitment process please let us know if you are looking to be considered for the 2022 summer internship or 2022 graduate programme. To be considered for the 2022 graduate programme you must be a final year or a recent graduate. The application process is made up of four stages:
- CV & online application;
- Online tests;
- Pre-recorded video interview;
- Assessment centre (group activity, case study presentation, panel interview).
Our Inclusive Culture
We have a long-term commitment to building inclusive work environments; we value diversity in our workforce and welcome enquiries from everyone.
Please contact us (entrylevel.recruitment@abrdn.com) if you require reasonable accommodation to be made to any stage of the recruitment process. Our Early Careers team will be pleased to discuss your needs and ensure that these are accommodated.
We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.
If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist
