Team Assistant

Role Overview Are you a highly organized and proactive professional with a knack for administrative support? Nest Invest is looking for a Team Assistant to join our dynamic and high performing team. As a Team Assistant, you will support our Directors and the wider Nest Invest directorate. You will work closely with colleagues across Nest Invest to ensure key meetings are effective, milestones are met, and to support the smooth administration of Nest Invest processes. Nest Invest is a high performing team with a mandate to invest members’ contributions in order to grow their retirement pots. The team assistant role will be a highly demanding but equally rewarding position, within a friendly, supportive, experienced, and professional team. In exchange for hard work, a flexible and commercial attitude and a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done, there will be ample opportunity to both learn new, and hone your existing skills.
To be successful in this position, you must have the following skills, knowledge and experience:

• Experience in a similar position
• Strong experience of providing administrative support in a demanding professional environment
• Proficient user of Microsoft Office applications and able to learn new IT systems quickly
  Experience of developing internal networks to achieve results
• Ability to build successful working relationships across a diverse working culture
• Comfortable liaising with senior stakeholders

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role. We welcome all internal applicants to apply for our roles, regardless of your current working pattern or hours. We will aim to accommodate your request and match your current working arrangements. Dont worry if you think you dont have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as were good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.

Flexible and agile working

Everyones personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, weve introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

• hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, twice a week, as required)
• reduce or vary working hours
• reduce or vary the days worked
• work compressed hours
• job share

Directorate/Department Overview The Nest Invest team is responsible for investing members’ contributions in order to grow their retirement pots over the long-term.
The responsibilities of the team include:

• Asset allocation and portfolio risk management
  
• Manager selection and monitoring
  
• Responsible investment
  
• Investment communications
  
• Fund administration
  
• Investment technology and financial modelling
  
• Contributing to the development of the investment proposition
  

From December 2019, all the Nest Investment team and the Investment Operations team were seconded into Nest Invest Ltd (Nest Invest), the investment subsidiary of Nest Corporation.
Nest Invest Ltd (Nest Invest) is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). For the role holder, this means working in a regulated entity, and being required to adhere to certain rules and behaviours included in the FCA’s Code of Conduct (COCON), specifically the individual Conduct Rules defined by the FCA.
Organisational Overview Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, belief, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, socio economic background, sex, sexual orientation, religion or race or any other legally protected status.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
As a Level 2 Disability Confident organisation, we’re part of the guaranteed interview scheme. This means should you meet the minimum criteria for this role, you will automatically be put forward for an interview.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.

If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: careers@nestcorporation.org.uk.