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2020 XPS Investment Graduate roles now open for applications!

Employer
XPS Pensions Group
Location
Reading, Birmingham, Manchester
Salary
Competitive, plus excellent benefits
Closing date
8 Nov 2019

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Specialism
Finance
Sector
Banking & Financial Services
Role Type
Graduate, Other work and training
Start Date
September
Duration
Permanent

Job Details

If you are looking for a business that will provide training, offer a clear career path and equip you with the skills for a successful future…

XPS Pensions Group is the place for you.

The Investment practice is an area of rapid growth within XPS. We are very ambitious and want to continue growing strongly. Our clients are institutional investors, mostly pension schemes. We advise them on a wide range of investment-related areas, although to be clear, we do not manage any money for our clients or undertake any trading.

We are looking for ambitious graduates who are excited to excel within our growing investment team. By joining XPS you will be involved in both advisory and asset transitions, assisting our clients with the implementation of their strategy and also study for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) or actuarial (IFoA) exams. We want to help you reach your potential and be the best that you can be.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for an Assistant Consultant that will excel in a role across both advisory and asset transitions. This role combines excellent communications skills, a passion about investments together with drive and enthusiasm. We also need an individual with strong project management skills combined with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.

We want someone who is unafraid to express a view and can express that view clearly, thereby contributing to the investment ideas we rely on to achieve our aims. We want to help you reach your potential and be the best that you can be. By joining XPS you will be involved in a wide variety of work.

About us

As the largest purely pension consulting and administration firm in the UK we have benefits of scale, yet remain agile, able to respond quickly as the world shifts around our clients. Being the only UK Pensions specialist listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market we have the flexibility to think and act differently.

We are actuaries, consultants and administrators working to protect and enhance the benefits of hundreds of thousands of pension scheme members with 1,200 staff across 15 UK locations.

We provide a positive working environment with an emphasis on training and development and we put relationship at the very heart of our business. You can expect an exiting and fulfilling career in a growing business and an industry that provides a consistent challenge.

Your ambition is our ambition.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do, the shared spirit that makes us one team. Wherever you are and whatever you’re doing, it’s the way you do it that makes you XPS.

You will be expected to be:

  • Ambitious
  • Expert
  • Agile
  • Helpful, and
  • Do the right thing

We will pay you an attractive salary alongside a broad range of other benefits which you can shape to reflect your circumstances. Your reward package will typically include: participation in Discretionary Bonus Scheme, holiday entitlement, pension options, life assurance, season ticket loans, XPS Lifestyle and XPS Rewards.

Company

XPS Pensions Group plc is the largest purely pension consulting and administration firm in the UK. We are the only listed pensions specialist in the UK and we are 100% focused on the UK pensions market. This is a combination that no other consultancy or pension administrator in the UK is able to match.

We offer a challenging career and stimulating work within a professional, friendly and sociable environment and our clients come from a broad spectrum of UK businesses.

We are fully committed to ensuring that all our employees, clients, suppliers and job applicants are treated fairly and with respect, irrespective of their actual or assumed background including gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, race, religion/belief or disability. This we do to ensure a working environment in which people are able to give of their best free from harassment, discrimination or bullying.

Our services
XPS has the capacity to advise and administer the largest schemes in the country, and the responsiveness to deliver a bespoke service for all clients. And as a plc with a clear and straightforward commitment to the industry, we are here for the long term. Our business employs over 1200 people in 15 locations across the UK, giving our clients a valuable mix of local insight and national oversight.

Our approach is to remove jargon and provide clients with the access to the latest technology, so they can monitor scheme funding in real time, test scenarios and manage the range of pension scheme risks they face. This enables our clients to make the best decisions and act quickly and efficiently.

Professional development
We offer generous study leave and pay for course notes, annual subscriptions and examinations. Actuarial students are assigned a mentor, who is normally a newly qualified actuary, to support them in their studies. Career planning and personal development are assisted by an in-house appraisal system which applies to all employees.

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