Role Overview
Nest is rapidly growing to become one of the world's largest asset managers, with an aim to manage over £100bn by the end of the decade. We're seeking an Investment Governance Manager to join our Investment team and support the Director of Investment Strategic Delivery.
In this role, you'll be pivotal in driving governance processes, ensuring the efficient management of meetings, strategic planning, and the evolution of investment governance as our assets grow and regulatory demands increase. You'll maintain and develop key policies and procedures, working closely with senior leaders like the COO, CIO, and CEO, alongside wide range of stakeholders.
To be successful in this position you will need the following experience and technical skills:
- Knowledge of investments and understanding what it means to work in an FCA regulated environment.
- Experience of preparing policy papers and/or reports for executive level meetings.
- Ability to multi-task, work well with people at all levels, and complete tasks to a high standard.
- Degree or equivalent level education.
The role holder will be trained in and subject to adhere to the FCA Conduct Rules Tier 1 as per the requirements in the FCA's Senior Managers and Certification Regime.
Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal
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We are open to discussing working patterns.
We welcome all internal applicants to apply for our roles, regardless of your current working pattern or hours. We will aim to accommodate your request and match your current working arrangements.
Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.
Flexible and agile working
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, twice a week, or more, as required)
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work compressed hours
- job share
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Directorate/Department Overview
The Nest Invest team is responsible for investing members' contributions in order 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.
Organisational Overview
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.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and 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.
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