Consulting Graduate Analyst

Why Isio?

Starting your career is about more than finding a job. It's about finding a place where you can learn, grow and make an impact.

At Isio, you'll work on meaningful projects, gain professional qualifications, receive structured development support and learn from experienced colleagues who are invested in your success. We're proud to have been recognised as one of the UK's leading employers for graduates and apprentices, reflecting our commitment to providing an outstanding Early Careers experience.

Find out more about our Early Careers programmes, awards and colleague experiences on our Early Careers website.

Our Employee Benefits team plays a central role in Isio’s ambition to broaden our offering beyond pensions. we expect to achieve rapid growth as we take our expertise to market, and we are looking for new talent to join the team.

We provide a range of services to our corporate and institutional clients which are all about supporting them with providing the best possible offering to their employees around Employee Benefits. This includes supporting with key elements including:

• Strategic Employee Benefit design,
• Maximising the use of effective Technology
• Risk and healthcare broking
• Workplace Health and Wellbeing
• Management of Defined Contribution Pensions schemes

This Industrial Placement is an exciting opportunity to build your knowledge of this growing business and develop your understanding of client facing consulting skills.

• Involvement in designing and implementing innovative benefit strategies for the modern world whilst understanding the design considerations employers have including cost, risk and best practice.
• Attending client meetings to understand client needs and help their organisation provide a benefit strategy that meets the needs of their employees.
• Analysing employee data and survey results to consider views and circumstances of employees which may result in benefit change recommendations.
• Supporting on projects to review, change or implement specific employee benefits or technology, or to support organisations in communicating with employees.
• Researching benefits and providers and supporting experienced consultants to prepare reports in relation to provider market reviews.
• Drafting employee communications and dealing with employee queries in relation to their benefits – resolving issues and communicating back to employees in a timely manner.
• Supporting the development and updates to our financial wellbeing tools.
• Helping clients with the governance of their benefits (e.g. pensions).
• Developing content for seminars and/or workshops to employees.
• Managing projects to deliver financial coaching sessions to employees.
• Working with experienced consultants in growing the revenue from our current clients through providing high-quality consultancy around their approach to Reward and Benefits.
• Contributing to new business activities including involvement with tender submissions and pitches.
• How to build effective client relationships and maintain high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Professional networking
• Working with regulated advisers on strategic pension scheme design covering trust based and contract based environments.
• Supporting pension trustees with ongoing regulatory requirements for defined contribution pension schemes and evolving requirements in the DC regulatory landscape.
• Supporting reviews of pension scheme investment strategy, including undertaking stochastic modelling, portfolio construction, and working with global fund managers to implement new investment mandate.

• Clear and consistent written and spoken communication skills
• Strong customer service mindset
• The ability to organise information, priorities and deadlines
• The ability to work with numerical and financial information
• Commercial Awareness
• Passion and excitement for solving problems
• The ability to build effective working relationships
• The ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and clients, valuing different perspectives
• Consistent care taken over quality, accuracy and follow-through
• Those that can respond constructively when priorities change
• Those that stay curious and look for better ways to solve problems
• Consistently show respect, fairness and integrity
• High levels of self-discipline to manage time around working and studying for professional qualifications

We will assess these behaviours in a structured and consistent way during the recruitment process.

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