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At Just we are recruiting for our future, and we currently have a great opportunity available to join our expanding Investment Team as a Graduate Responsible Investment Analyst on a permanent basis in our London office.
This is an exciting role that carries a high degree of responsibility and independence as you will provide technical support to the Chief Investment Officer and wider Investment team as well as facilitating delivery on a wide variety of investment initiatives. You will have the opportunity to work in the responsible investment team to the Responsible Investment Lead.
You will gain experience across the entire credit spectrum, looking at the existing mandates of corporate bonds, emerging market debt, municipal bonds on the liquid side, and infrastructure debt, commercial real estate debt and private placements on the illiquid side. There will also be the opportunity to work on new credit asset classes as the portfolio grows.
You will also be involved supporting the implementation of our broader strategy and objectives including implementation of environmental, social, and corporate governance (‘ESG’) criteria as well as supporting our vision to become Net Zero by 2050.
Job role accountabilities
Responsible Investment
- Reports to Responsible Investment Lead, who is responsible for the delivery of responsible investment projects and initiatives and overseeing implementation across the investment team
- Develop an understanding of the investment process and specifically how ESG and climate change form a part of that
- Support in the implementation of our Responsible Investment (RI) activities. RI priorities at Just include:
- Integration of environmental, social, and corporate governance (‘ESG’) risks: support investment analysts and credit analysts in ensuring ESG risks are appropriately factored into investment decisions
- Stewardship: support in engaging with relevant stakeholders e.g. investment managers to understand their ESG proposition and monitor over time
- Monitoring and reporting: work with other teams to analyse, monitor and report on ESG and climate-related activities
- Regulation: remain aware of current and emerging ESG-related regulation
- Policies and framework: support with reviewing and enhancing existing/new policies and frameworks on responsible investing e.g., the existing Responsible Investment Framework
- Green/Sustainability bonds: support with monitoring the achievement of our sustainability targets in relation to our bond issues, and other associated targets
- Generally, become a subject matter expert on RI, and support with providing advice and guidance to internal stakeholders
General
- Support the preparation of clear and concise material and presentations for internal papers, approvals, and management information, where applicable
- Work closely and form strong relationships with internal stakeholders most notably in the areas of Finance, Actuarial, Risk, Capital Management and Legal
- Develop an understanding of the dynamics and commerciality of a UK life assurance company
- Understand the context of our financial constraints, risk appetite and governance framework
Examples of key activities
- Draft and support with preparation of committee-related papers
- Support on communicating and drafting responses to external initiatives/consultations
- Support with manager monitoring and due diligence, across asset classes
- Work with Liquid Credit PM & Trader to determine relative value in IG credit universe as well as monitoring and analysing macro as well credit demand / supply trends to determine impact on investment attractiveness
- Work with credit analysts to perform fundamental analysis on investment opportunities both private and public credit
- Support technical actuarial team in delivering BAU and project based actuarial work
