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    Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients’ needs.

    Founded in 2002, Insight’s collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight manages assets across its core liability-driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income, currency and absolute return capabilities.

    Insight Investment is owned by BNY Mellon, a global leader in investment management and investment services.
    Insight has a clear mission and purpose to offer investors a different approach to achieving their investment goals; one that prioritises the certainty of meeting their chosen objectives in contrast to the traditional focus on maximising return and minimising volatility.

    Insight takes responsible investment seriously. In our view, it is as an essential part of deciding whether an investment is fair value. Insight is a signatory to the Financial Reporting Council’s UK Stewardship Code4 and a founding signatory to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2006.

    Insight has a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia.

    Department profile

    The Investment Management Division comprises experienced and specialised investment professionals. Insight’s global CIO is based in London and the Investment Team also has a significant presence in our US offices in New York, Boston and San Francisco.

    Both the structure of the team and the systems platform have been designed to provide scalability as well as complete flexibility. This flexibility allows us to tailor our offering to suit clients’ specific requirements, putting our clients' needs at the heart of our investment solutions.

    Two considerations have shaped our investment range: our clients' objectives and a philosophy of only focusing on those things we know we can do well. This allows us to aim to deliver consistent and repeatable performance. Our capabilities include fixed income, risk management strategies including liability-driven investment (LDI) and currency risk management, absolute return and multi-asset capabilities. Institutional clients are able to access these capabilities on a segregated account basis or via our pooled fund range.

    Purpose of role

    To analyse our trading outcomes and practices to ensure we are achieving best execution of trades across all asset classes. To identify possible improvements to trading practices and assist our traders to refine their execution processes in the light of our analysis undertaken.

    Role accountabilities

    • Working closely with the trading teams across all asset classes sharing the outcomes from our trading data analysis.
    • Processing and interpreting trading data from our TCA providers, trading systems and execution venues.
    • Analysing market conditions and investigating outlying trades to evidence best execution.
    • Taking minutes and preparing packs for our monthly trading desk oversight meetings and quarterly Algo review meetings.
    • Recommending trading practices, venue or algo use refinements to enhance our trading outcomes.
    • Ensuring all trading desk procedures and policies are reviewed on schedule and are kept up to date.
    • Assist with the continual refinement and improvement of our TCA and best execution monitoring processes
    • Collate and produce counterparty monitoring data for our six monthly broker review meetings
    • Regulatory and client reporting to meet the requirements of MIFID II around Best Execution analysis delivery.

    Knowledge, skills and behaviours required

    • Proactive and shows initiative, quick thinker with the ability to learn at a fast pace
    • Strong problem solving skills
    • Organised, self-confident and assertive
    • Team player
    • Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
    • Numerate and analytical
    • Knowledge of Fixed Income, Equity, Currency and Derivatives products desirable but not essential
    • Good understanding of MiFID2 best execution rules
    • Strong written and verbal communication skills
    • Strong Excel and data presentation skills essential
    • Knowledge of Tableau desirable

    Insight is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation.