Fixed Income Solutions Manager - Associate level

Who we’re looking for

The Advanced Bond Beta (ABB) team run pooled and customised fixed income solutions for a variety of institutional clients, including global credit portfolios and government bond baskets run on a buy & maintain basis. The ABB Solutions Managers engage with our clients and prospective clients in solutions design and delivery, working closely with the ABB portfolio management team to do so.

We are looking for a Solutions Manager to provide support across the ABB Solutions Management team of four. We are looking for someone who is likely to be early on in their career but keen to develop knowledge of fixed income (especially investment grade corporate bonds) while already having a good technical grounding.

We want someone who brings a positive attitude and energy to the role with a desire to learn and develop. The candidate should have the ability to help us improve our products, processes and materials, so we can deliver the best outcomes for our pension fund and insurance clients.

You will be involved in early stage prospective client work (supporting the team completing RFIs and RFPs, preparing pitch materials) as well as supporting our existing client base in answering their questions and being involved in the regular reporting cycle.

About Schroders

We’re a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 6,000 people on six continents. And we’ve been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn’t change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

The base

We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We’re close to our clients, in the heart of the UK’s financial centre and we have everything we need to work flexibly.

The team

The ABB team is one of the largest buy & maintain credit teams in London and manages c. £18bn for institutional clients. Our clients are mainly based in the UK with a growing presence in Europe and are a combination of pension funds, insurance companies and wealth managers.

We pride ourselves on the variety within our team with our solutions managers and portfolio managers coming from a wide range of backgrounds and skill sets. The portfolio managers and solutions managers work very closely together to understand our clients’ needs and build solutions to fit their requirements.

We integrate ESG and sustainability into everything that we do. Our innovative sustainability team provides us with the tools, frameworks and thematic research that we require.

What you'll do

• Support the fixed income solutions team in day-to-day and periodic tasks

• Help grow the buy & maintain business, developing strong relationships with colleagues across the firm including the Client Group and Client Solutions.

• Responding to RFPs, client enquiry and developing our messaging to clients and supporting the generation of periodic client reporting.

• Support our investment team in working with our clients to understand and deliver the outcomes they want

• Co-ordinate and oversee the set-up of new client mandates as well as any changes to existing client mandates.

• Improve our clients’ experiences and how we report information to them

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

• Ideally have experience or interest in financial markets, economics, fixed income instruments and credit concepts

• Ability to help prospective and current client engagement, and deliver complex concepts in a clear and concise way, both written and over time face to face

• Desire to shape how we communicate with clients and to build and manage efficient processes to deliver information

• A good knowledge of Excel, Powerpoint and Aladdin

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that’ll help

• An understanding of derivatives, such as swaps and forwards

• Awareness of liability focussed investors and shaping a credit portfolio around these objectives, in particular for UK insurers and defined benefit pension schemes

• ESG within credit selection

• Familiarity with credit portfolios, instruments and management processes

• Familiarity with legal documents and client guidelines

What you’ll be like

• Self-motivated, pro-active and enthusiastic with high attention to detail

• Flexible, highly curious and willing to learn

• A critical thinker who’s able to look at things from different angles

• Great at unpicking a problem, from start to end, own and deliver the solution

• Able to work under pressure, on several priorities at once, and  with tight deadlines

• Great at working with other people, sharing and communicating decisions

• Keen to improve what we do for our clients and how we do it

Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought, facilitated by an inclusive culture, will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer. You are welcome here, regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, or any other protected characteristic.