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About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career within Private Markets, helping to deliver strong investment outcomes across Standard Life's c.£300bn assets under administration. As part of the Real Assets team within Capital Markets, you'll work alongside experienced investors and transaction specialists to originate, analyse, execute and manage investments across Infrastructure, Asset-Backed Lending, Real Estate Debt, Long Income and other Private Markets strategies. Working closely with colleagues across Private Markets and RS&AM, you'll support complex transactions from initial assessment through to ongoing portfolio management, while contributing to the continued evolution of Standard Life's Real Assets proposition. The role offers broad exposure to investment origination, execution and asset management, providing an excellent platform to deepen your technical expertise, build market relationships and develop a long-term career within Private Markets.
Responsibilities
- Participate in and lead the structuring and execution of internal and external securitisations, including on Equity Release Mortgages and other ABS/CLOs – Optimising capital treatment and return. Support ERM underlying pricing & analysis.
- Partner with Actuarial, Risk and Capital teams – Refining longevity, prepayment, and property value assumptions, ensuring alignment with Solvency II and internal risk appetite frameworks.
- Act as primary structuring lead in cross-functional deal teams - coordinating across Asset Management, Standard Life and external stakeholders to deliver successful transactions
- Contribute to wider securitised asset strategy development – support the development of asset strategy through planning, MI development and engagement with wider stakeholders
- Lead in pricing and executing other structured credit and complex transactions across Private Markets as well as commercial, financial and legal terms to optimise risk-adjusted outcomes.
- Build and maintain cash flow models and investment recommendations to support decision-making.
- Become the team resource for complex transactions, subject matter expert on pricing tools, targeted financial metrics and the wider Standard Life platform in order to maximise execution efficiency across the Private Markets team.
- Monitor portfolio performance, emerging risks and covenant compliance, supporting asset management and restructuring activity where required.
- Contribute to strategic initiatives & projects, market research and investment insights that expand and enhance the firm's investment capabilities.
Requirements
- Experience in an investment role (buy-side or sell-side), with exposure to assessing Structured Credit & Mortgage investments (Mortgage Solutions, Equity Release Mortgages, Securitisations (including ABS/CLO), Asset-Backed Finance and/or Insured Credit); broader cross-asset experience and familiarity with market participants
- Extensive knowledge of securitisations (ABS, MBS, CLO), and/or ERM & mortgages solutions as well as underlying securitised pools (mid-market loan/direct lending, SME loans, mortgages etc)
- Demonstrated strong cashflow analysis skills, credit fundamentals and experience of structures reliant on specific pools of assets (e.g. derivative desk or rating agency covering these counterparties / assets)
- Experience structuring investments within complex regulatory environments
- Track record of high-quality delivery, including the ability to manage multiple workstreams and priorities
- Experience operating in environments requiring strong self-direction, prioritisation and effective stakeholder management
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, Word and PowerPoint; familiarity with Intex
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to deliver high-quality output at pace and with attention to detail
- Programming skills and/or VBA is advantageous
- Understanding of Solvency II regulation and the Matching Adjustment framework
- Exposure to investment origination and ongoing asset surveillance, including familiarity with commercial, contractual and legal negotiation concepts
- Established or developing network across relevant market participants
- Highly collaborative, proactive and flexible contributor in a dynamic and agile team.
- Proven leadership and management skills of junior investment teams
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills and the ability to work quickly with high attention to detail
- Ability to assign priorities to multiple activities while ensuring integrity, accuracy, and timeliness.
- Clear and confident communicator, able to explain complex ideas in a way that is accessible to different audiences, including senior external and internal stakeholders
- Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to establish credibility and influence effectively.
- Organised and resilient, able to balance multiple priorities while maintaining a high standard of work.
Skills
- Structured Credit & Mortgage investments
- Mortgage Solutions
- Equity Release Mortgages
- Securitisations (including ABS/CLO)
- Asset-Backed Finance
- Insured Credit
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Intex
- Programming skills
- VBA
- Solvency II regulation
- Matching Adjustment framework
- Investment origination
- Asset surveillance
- Commercial negotiation
- Contractual negotiation
- Legal negotiation
Location
- London
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Subject to experience
Education Level
- Bachelor of Science or equivalent professional experience
- Master's degree, CFA, CAIA, CQF or similar qualifications would be beneficial
Salary/Compensations
- from £100,000
Benefits
- bonus
- private medical cover
- 38 days annual leave
- excellent pension
- 12x salary life assurance
- career breaks
- income protection
- 3x volunteering days
About the Company
- We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.
- Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards. We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
- If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.