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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
- Analyse and assess private markets investment opportunities, including transaction structuring, risk assessment and financial modelling.
- Support the sourcing, execution and ongoing management of investments across Structured Credit and wider Private Markets strategies.
- Conduct credit and relative value analysis to identify attractive investment opportunities and enhance portfolio returns.
- Build and maintain cash flow models and investment recommendations to support decision-making.
- Assist in negotiating commercial, financial and legal terms to optimise risk-adjusted outcomes.
- Partner with internal and external stakeholders to progress transactions through approval and execution.
- Monitor portfolio performance, emerging risks and covenant compliance, supporting asset management and restructuring activity where required.
- Contribute to strategic initiatives, 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 Private debt instrument as well as 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
- 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 and/or VBA is advantageous
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to deliver high-quality output at pace and with attention to detail
- Understanding of Solvency II regulation and the Matching Adjustment framework
- Experience structuring investments within complex regulatory environments
- Exposure to securitisations, and/or ERM & mortgages solutions
- 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
Skills
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Intex
- VBA
- Problem-solving
- Analytical skills
- Solvency II regulation
- Matching Adjustment framework
- Investment structuring
- Securitisations
- ERM
- Mortgages solutions
- Investment origination
- Asset surveillance
- Commercial negotiation
- Contractual negotiation
- Legal negotiation
- Relationship-building
- Stakeholder management
Location
- London
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Subject to experience
Education Level
- Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience
- Master's degree
- CFA
- CQF
Salary/Compensations
- £45,000 - £60,000
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.