Aon Corporation
Associate Consultant
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Associate Investment Consultant
Do you want an investment consulting role advising institutional clients supported by Aon’s breadth of specialist knowledge and expertise? Would you enjoy being part of a diverse team focused on driving positive outcomes for both clients and colleagues? If you’re passionate about joining an innovative and market-leading business, then read on!
The UK Investment Team is looking for an Associate Investment Consultant to join the Investment Advisory team. This is a hybrid role which will be based in Leeds City Centre, but other locations may be considered (Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Bristol).
Responsibilities
Associate Investment Consultants will be primarily responsible for adding value to Aon’s relationship with clients through management, development, and retention of a portfolio of clients.
What the day will look like
As an Associate Investment Consultant, you will support consultants in building and managing client relationships, while overseeing the day-to-day deliverables and support team. You will be involved in preparing advice predominantly to UK defined benefit pension schemes but also endowments, charities, and other institutional clients.
Your day-to-day focus will include:
- Working with lead consultants to build relationships with clients, as well as understanding and solving the challenges clients may face
- Driving business results through efficient delivery of client service and connecting and working with colleagues across Aon’s specialist teams
- Acting as the day-to-day contact for clients of all sizes
- Working off your own initiative on client-specific projects and managing your own, and client team workflow
- Coordinating client work, and ensuring the timely delivery to the client or lead consultant
- Identifying opportunities to innovate and drive efficiency
- Developing junior colleagues into future associate consultants
- Promoting an inclusive culture across Aon
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How This Opportunity Is Different
At Aon, the opportunity is much wider than just the local consulting team. You’ll quickly build a network across different offices, business areas, and Aon teams, working with a variety of clients. With a persistently developing investment backdrop, we quickly allocate teams and dedicate resources to respond to market developments, providing a vast array of opportunities for consultants to specialise and create their own role within the business.
Aon has a wealth of market-leading specialists prepared to support you in your role, producing thought-provoking content and assisting with the delivery of bespoke advice to clients. Continued investment in our infrastructure and systems that support our 50,000 strong global workforce ensures you can efficiently manage your time to drive value and business results.
There is a strong focus on sharing of ideas and working as a team within the UK investment team and more broadly across Aon. During each week there are multiple department-wide video conference calls keeping colleagues up to date on the latest business results, ideas from specialist teams, and opportunities for colleagues to put themselves forward to support new initiatives.
Requirements
We’re looking for individuals with:
- Experience with a major consulting, fund management, or banking firm, involved in advising UK occupational pension schemes
- Knowledge of investment markets and UK pension schemes
- Good understanding of all main asset classes, how they interact, and the role they can play in meeting client objectives
- An understanding of how to manage a successful asset transfer
- Basic understanding of the asset-liability process
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to build relationships internally and externally
- Making good progress against the CFA or IFoA examinations
- A desire for a new challenge
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Benefits
In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two “Global Wellbeing Days” each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognize that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working!
Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share, and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.
We provide individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law. Please contact us to request an accommodation at ReasonableAdjustments@Aon.com.
Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
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