Corporate Development and Strategy Analyst in Swindon

This role will support the effective delivery of the business and corporate strategy, providing support to the Corporate Development & Strategy team, and other members of the wider leadership team and Executive, across a range of key projects and activities. This is a hybrid role in either Swindon OR London office - 3 days a week.

The benefits:

• Salary - £45,000 - £53,000
• Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 7.5%
• Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
• Critical illness cover
• Income protection - 1x salary
• Death in service - 4x salary
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
• Up to 3 working days per year of paid time to participate in volunteering activities
• A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

Key Accountabilities:

• Support the development, maintenance and monitoring of the Group Strategy.
• Provide support to the strategy team and wider business to enable the successful delivery of the company Value Creation Plan.
• Support the delivery of Corporate Development opportunities including the execution of strategic M&A opportunities.
• Enable effective stakeholder management through preparing supporting materials required for various groups, including for our shareholders.
• Provide project support to Strategy team initiatives, and represent the Strategy team on projects across the business as required.
• Produce insightful and value-additive competitor and market updates and analysis to the Executive and wider business on a regular basis.
• Enable the effective functioning of the Strategy Team through timely, efficient and pro-active administrative support.
• Deputise for the Corporate Development and Strategy managers, and other members of the team, as required.
• Support delivery of key Corporate Projects, including those related to shareholders.

What will you need to succeed?

• Experience in corporate finance and strategic thinking.
• Knowledge or experience working in the Financial Services sector is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to deal with individuals of all levels.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Outstanding written, verbal and visual communication skills.
• Excellent organisational, prioritisation and time management skills.
• Confidence to deal with senior stakeholders within the business.
• Good understanding of business commercials and strategy.
• Tenacious but able to build and maintain effective relationships.
• Committed and flexible team player with the ability to work on own initiative.

Why us?

At The Openwork Partnership, we're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential. We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague’s individual differences and identities – just like our financial advice, for us, it’s personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.