Research Analyst, Aviva
3-5 days a week in office
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
Be an early applicant
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be with people when it really matters, throughout their lives.
Role
Who you are
- Confidence to challenge constructively
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across functions
- Experience integrating ESG or non-financial risk into credit conclusions (or strong interest in doing so)
- Strong fundamental analysis, including a demonstratable process for assessing credits
- Experience producing clear written recommendations and communicating views succinctly to investment stakeholders
- In this role you’ll be ‘Certified’ under the Financial Conduct Authority / Prudential Regulation Authority’s Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR). This means that we’ll need to complete some regulatory background checks on you before you take up your role and we’ll need to ask you some questions on an annual basis to make sure you remain ‘fit and proper’ and competent to carry out your role. We’ll provide training on what holding a SMCR role means when you join us and annually thereafter
What the job involves
- We are recruiting for a Research Analyst to join our team. This is a great opportunity for someone who has experience, gained within a buy-side asset manager, sell-side investment bank, or credit rating agency. This role would ideally suit someone in the early stages of their career
- This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated Analyst to develop their career within a high-performing research environment
- As the team continues to grow, we are seeking individuals with either emerging market corporate or developed market sovereign research experience to join the Global Sovereign and Emerging Markets Corporate research team
- In this role, you will take ownership of fundamental credit research, producing robust bottom-up credit views and generating investment recommendations across the fixed income platform
- You will undertake in-depth analysis of issuers to form clear and well-supported investment opinions, supported by developing and maintaining financial models, including sensitivity, scenario, and stress testing, to assess credit risk
- You will be responsible for producing written research, assigning ratings and outlooks, and identifying trade opportunities across your coverage
- Alongside this, you will monitor credit developments and provide timely updates, ensuring insights remain current and relevant
- Collaboration will be key, as you will work closely with broader fixed income research teams, portfolio managers, and ESG colleagues to incorporate both financial and non-financial considerations
- The role also involves presenting issuer views at internal forums, contributing to team discussions, and communicating effectively with stakeholders
- In addition, you will build and maintain relationships with issuers, sell-side analysts, banks, and industry experts to strengthen insights and challenge assumptions
Application process
- End Date: July 3, 2026
Salary benchmarks
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 selling off subsidiaries in Indonesia, Italy, and many other countries, Aviva is refocusing on pensions. In the wake of a Pensions Dashboard Programme delay in the UK, Aviva partnered with the likes of Scottish Widows, Legal & General and Standard Life to participate in the programme as a leader in its field. This exemplifies Aviva’s renewed focus on the fintech sector, all whilst serving as a national analyst during the cost-of-living crisis, thanks to its annual Age of Ambiguity study.
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Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Amanda Blanc
(Group CEO)Currently Group Board Non-Executive Director at BP. Previously Chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union, Senior Advisor at Trov, CEO at Zurich Insurance Company.
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