Investment Analyst

Reporting To Caryl Embleton-Thirsk, Head of Responsible Investment Solutions

Location London

About Us
Schroders is a global investment manager which provides active asset management, wealth management and investment solutions. We aim to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. We serve a diverse client base that includes pension schemes, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, high net worth individuals, family offices, as well as end clients through partnerships with distributors, financial advisers, and online platforms.

Established in 1804, we have around 5,500 people across 36 global locations. Schroders' success can be attributed to its diversified business model, spanning different asset classes, client types and geographies.

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 Solutions division currently looks after over £100bn in assets across pensions, insurance and other long term asset owners like endowments and charities/foundations. You’ll join our team based in London but operating across the UK and internationally. Our team continues to grow to support the steady stream of opportunities landing with us across a diverse range of client types.

We are responsible for the design and delivery of tailored investment strategies for our clients, bringing the whole of the firm, which as of October 2026 includes Nuveen’s capabilities. We lead engagements with a wide range of clients, understanding their needs through deep investment knowledge and investment strategy insights. Team members come from a variety of backgrounds, most commonly from investment and actuarial consulting, solutions and broader asset management firms.

This role will have a particular focus on Responsible Investment and meeting client needs in this area across Solutions clients, through integrating ESG into investment strategy, analytics, reporting and stewardship. The role may also include traditional client advice/management activity on certain UK FM and Foundation clients as agreed from time to time, with a priority to clients with ESG needs.

What you'll do

• Support the Head of Responsible Investment Solutions and broader Responsible Investment Solutions team in meeting the ESG needs of our Solutions clients
• Help drive and maintain the high standards of the ESG proposition of fiduciary management and OCIO clients
• Provide increasing support to Insurance and E&F clients in meeting ESG needs in these markets
• Ensure delivery of quarterly and annual ESG and climate client reporting and training to fulfil UK ESG pensions regulations and in meeting best practice; provide other ad-hoc reporting to other client types as required;
• Be a key point of contact for client-facing colleagues, client and third-party evaluator queries, questionnaires and RFPs in relation to the ESG proposition;
• Attend client meetings and third-party evaluator meetings as required to represent the ESG proposition;
• Developing ESG content, thought pieces and supporting the creation of new ESG initiatives and propositions to bring to market across the Solutions client landscape;
• Support clients with specific ESG goals with strategy design and in providing quantitative ESG analysis, with recommendations tailored to the client requirements;
• Assisting with stewardship activity with underlying managers, identifying areas for engagement and
• Work closely with the broader solutions team, investment and central sustainability team as required to meet ESG client reporting, training and/or investment needs
• Build expertise in responsible investing particular…