Investment Specialist/Director, Aviva

Private Markets

Salary not provided

+ annual performance bonus

Mid and Senior level
London

2-3 days a week in office

Aviva

Insurance, wealth and retirement business

Open for applications

Aviva

Insurance, wealth and retirement business

1001+ employees

B2CInsuranceFinancial Services

Open for applications

Salary not provided

+ annual performance bonus

Mid and Senior level
London

2-3 days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2CInsuranceFinancial Services

Company mission

With you today, for a better tomorrow. Aviva exist to be with people when it really matters, throughout their lives.

Role

Who you are

  • Previous experience of working as an investment specialist in either public or private markets, with an interest in growing private markets knowledge
  • Individuals looking for the next stage of their career development in a business with demonstrable ambitions to be a market-leading Private Markets franchise
  • Strong interpersonal and technical skills, ideally with previous client facing experience and/or fundraising experience
  • Excellent proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, with meticulous attention to detail
  • A can-do positive attitude and ambition to make a meaningful material difference in a high paced environment
  • N this role you’ll be ‘Certified’ under the Financial Conduct Authority / Prudential Regulation Authority’s Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR)

What the job involves

  • This is a great job for an Investment Specialist/Director from with a public or private markets background to join an ambitious, market-leading and growing pan-European Private Markets platform
  • This role will sit in our private markets investment division and is part of our global investment specialist team
  • Investment Specialists serve as the bridge between the investment desks and the rest of the business, including global distribution and product
  • The team remit is to both grow and protect the business, enhance the capability offering and support a best-in-class platform across all disciplines
  • Our portfolio consists of principally real estate, infrastructure, private credit and venture capital
  • The role will help deliver market leading product and capability collateral, support new product initiatives and help deliver existing sales plans

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Insights

Led by a woman

2% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Our take

With 18 million international customers, Aviva is the largest provider of insurance and leading life and pension funds in the UK. With a history that dates back to the founding of Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society in 1696, Aviva’s current form is thanks to a merger between Norwich Union and CGU plc in the year 2000.

Over the noughties, Aviva grew its market out to Europe and established a high-profile foothold in America thanks to the most expensive advertising campaign of the time that included celebrities Alice Cooper and Bruce Willis. Into the 2010s, the insurance broker was forced to restructure and close a large number of its non-core businesses in a bid to increase its shareholder returns and streamline its focus. In 2012 it sold its US wing to Athene Holding to further this goal.

Now stripped back after sell-offs of subsidiaries in Indonesia, Italy, and many more countries, Aviva is refocusing on pensions. In the wake of a Pensions Dashboard Programme delay in the UK, Aviva is in the running to take over the programme thanks to its pre-existing private systems. This exemplifies Aviva’s renewed focus on the fintech sector, all whilst playing national analyst during the cost of living crisis thanks to its annual Age of Ambiguity study.

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