Investment Governance Analyst in Slough

Nest Invest is a leader on driving up standards and best practices across the industry, delivering a high-quality, low-cost pension scheme, open to all. Now with 10 million members, Nest is playing a critical role in helping people save for their retirement, many of them low to moderate earners who may be saving for the first time and moving jobs frequently.

The investment strategic delivery team ensures the efficient, compliant and well-governed running of Nest Invest as an FCA authorised subsidiary and carries out strategic planning for the future evolution of Nest Invest to make sure its business model and governance remain fit for purpose as the organisation grows.

The Investment Governance Analyst role will be key to ensuring that business functions of Nest Invest, such as governance, policies, people development, compliance, and risk management, are maintained and developed. The role holder will provide project management support to the Investment Delivery team and leadership team. They will support the efficient running of governance forums and committees for Nest Invest, including agenda coordination, drafting of papers, meeting logistics, and paper collation. The role includes ensuring governance documentation remains current, well organised, and aligned with regulatory and internal requirements. The role holder will support the Nest Invest Governance Manager with the preparation of governance reporting and management information for senior stakeholders and governance forums, coordinating inputs across teams, and identifying opportunities to improve governance processes, documentation, and ways of working.

This is a role with great opportunities for self-starters, multitaskers, and individuals always seeking to improve processes, put forward ideas, and challenge ways of working when seeing the future benefits. This individual will have:

• Prior knowledge and experience of working in an FCA authorised environment.
• Experience of preparing policy papers and/or reports for executive level meetings.
• Experience of working in a corporate governance team and of managing a range of senior stakeholders and Board/Committee members.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and organisational skills.
• Outstanding attention to detail and high levels of accuracy.
• Good time management, planning and able to effectively juggle a variety of tasks and priorities to meet multiple deadlines.
• Ability to contribute their skills and initiative to make an impact right away.

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country. Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

The Investment directorate (Nest Invest) is responsible for investing members’ contributions to grow their retirement pots over the long-term. The responsibilities of the team include:

• Asset allocation and portfolio risk management
• Manager selection and monitoring
• Responsible investment
• Investment communications
• Fund administration
• Investment technology and financial modelling
• Contributing to the development of the investment proposition

From December 2019, the Nest Investment team was seconded into Nest Invest Ltd (Nest Invest), the investment subsidiary of Nest Corporation. Nest Invest is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). For the role holder, this means working in a regulated entity, and being required to adhere to certain rules and behaviours included in the FCA’s Code of Conduct (COCON), specifically the individual Conduct Rules defined by the FCA.

Everyone's personal situation is different. To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

• hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
• reduce or vary working hours
• reduce or vary the days worked
• work compressed hours
• job share

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles and we particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnicity, LGBTQ+, and disabled candidates. We are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, belief, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, socio economic background, sex, sexual orientation, religion or race or any other legally protected status. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation. As a Level 2 Disability Confident organisation, we’re part of the guaranteed interview scheme. This means should you meet the minimum criteria for this role, you will automatically be put forward for an interview.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.