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Make a difference every day!
Invesco is driven by a pure focus on investment. It’s all we do. We focus on doing work that matters and being a firm that gives a voice to every employee. In fact, we make a promise to our clients and each other to create greater possibilities together. We’re looking for people who have fresh perspectives. Who can come together to share ideas, listen and challenge each other to achieve better solutions for our clients.
Your team
The team’s role is to undertake independent risk management responsibilities relating to investment risk. This could include the oversight of implemented actions, strategies and processes aimed to follow regulatory requirements for risk management and risk reporting, as well as ensuring relevant techniques for risk measurement are in place and that regular reviews take place to assess the efficacy of existing methods. Finally, it facilitates the identification, evaluation and quantification of risks.
Your role
Do you have a passion for numbers and want to understand more about how risk is handled within investments? We’ve got just the opportunity for you to get some outstanding experience, working within our Investment Risk team for a 12-month placement as part of the Investment 2020 programme. This placement will commence this year on a date to be agreed with the successful candidate.
You could be involved in preparing risk reports and management information for key business partners, as well as supporting in the monitoring and analysis of investment risk results in relation to market, credit, liquidity, leverage, counterparty, valuation and derivatives risk.
Sound exciting? You’ll need a degree with a strong numerical basis for this role. If you have some basic programming skills, that would also be useful. We’re looking for someone with an appetite to learn, who loves solving problems and who has the ability to work both independently and within our diverse and successful team. This traineeship is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
How to Apply
Whilst a CV is important, we’d like to get to know you as more than just a name on a piece of paper. In addition to your CV, we’d like you to address a few questions that are important to us in a Word or PDF document:
- What interests you about a career in investment management?
- Introduce us to a topic you know about and tell us why it interests you.
- Tell us about a particularly challenging situation you’ve faced personally and what you’ve learnt from this.
- What does investment risk mean to you?
- Tell us about a time when you have analysed a large data set. What techniques did you use and what would you do differently next time?
This is a great opportunity for you to shine and to help us better understand your motivations! Unfortunately, we will not be able to consider your application without this submission.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 3rd October 2021
The good stuff
We have an outstanding benefits package, which includes:
- Competitive salary and bonus
- Company-provided healthcare
- 26 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
- Generous pension provisions
- Income protection
- Health and wellness benefits
- Volunteering days
- Enhanced parental leave
- Life insurance
Our commitment to you
We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone. As part of Invesco’s commitment to ensuring our teams have the broad range of experiences and backgrounds required to promote diversity of thought, and to maintaining a positive, engaging work environment, we champion flexible working.
Most of our roles are hybrid, with some time in the office and some time working from home. Please feel free to discuss flexible working options with us.
Our commitment to the community and environmental, social and governance investing
We partner with charitable organisations globally to make an impact in the communities where we live and work. Our people are encouraged to support the charities they feel most passionate about. We are also committed to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. We serve our clients in this space as a trusted partner both on specific responsible investment product strategies as well as part of our commitment to deliver a superior investment experience.
Join Us
Our ambition is high. By working smart and supporting one another, we can continuously push ourselves to grow. We all have the chance to make a meaningful impact on our business, our industry and our clients’ lives.
Let’s create greater possibilities together!
People with disabilities
We want to give all our candidates the best opportunity to shine. If you need any adjustments to be made during the application and selection process, please send an e-mail to EMEA-TalentAcquisition@invesco.com. Please include your name, the job you are interested in, and the type of adjustment you need.
