Senior Investment (Quant) Analyst

Date Posted: 08/11/2024

Location: London

Job Type: Full time

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Who are Just?

We’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly. With the defined benefit buy in / buy out space growing each year, Just continues to annually grow its business by over £4bn of assets.

We are a purpose driven company with compelling and credible goals. Quite simply, we help people achieve a better later life. We achieve this by providing competitive and innovative products, services, financial advice and guidance to help our customers achieve security, certainty and provide them with peace of mind in retirement.

That’s who we are. We’re a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement.

Purpose

We are currently looking for someone to join our expanding Investment Team as nearly or newly qualified Investment Actuary.

In this role you will be supporting modelling workstreams to maintain and refine tools used for risk management in particular credit risk to support medium and long term risk management strategies for asset investment, pricing new assets acquired both public and private, and optimising capital and balance sheet positions to manage the inflow of assets and liabilities in a capital efficient manner giving considerations to medium term investment strategy, cashflow matching, short and long term liquidity and large transactions whether asset or liability side, including pre-investment of anticipated DB schemes.

Skills and experiences required for this role :

Nearly (2-3 specialist exams away) / newly qualified actuary or CFA preferred.
Relevant experiences within Financial Services, Asset valuation/reporting, Insurance Investment or Investment Consulting.
Good working knowledge of assets modelling and valuation, fundamental investing knowledge, with the ability and interest to develop further, and investment function knowledge of a life assurer is essential.
Proficiency in Python and Excel is essential.
Good understanding of the implication of either SII (SUK) or IFRS17 on assets investment
Strong IT skills with the ability to think independently and hit the ground running by proposing and implementing solutions.
Excellent verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to present investment matters to laymen.
Excellent team-working skills and capability to maintain relationship within internal stakeholders and develop relationship with external parties.
Strong results focus, with ability to work efficiently and grasp concepts that are not straightforward; yet seek guidance where necessary.

Why Just?

We are committed to building a more sustainable business and have publicly committed to reduce our scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and our scope 1 and 2 emissions to Net Zero by 2025. We’ve made good progress so far and encourage our people to make small and meaningful changes in their everyday lives, so that we can protect our planet for future generations.

Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority for Just as part of our overall strategy and ensuring all of our people feel proud to work at Just. We have joined a number of initiatives including the Race at Work Charter, designed to improve outcomes for employees from underrepresented backgrounds. We also run a Reciprocal Mentoring scheme for employees from a BAME background, those with a disability and those who identify as LGBTQ+. There are multiple employee network groups, which champion issues including race, gender, social mobility and neurodiversity.

What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly - each other.

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