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Role title: Investment Analyst

TPR grade & pay group: Advisory - 07 Lead Specialist

Directorate: Market Oversight

Starting salary: Salary starting from £56,969 per annum dependent on skills and experience, plus excellent benefits package, and flexible working arrangements

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Brighton/hybrid (6 days per month in the office)

The role and responsibilities

In this new role, you'll support and collaborate with Principal Investment Consultants to assess and oversee large DC Master Trust scheme investment strategies, emerging risks, contribute to policy development, and enhance our modelling and data analysis capabilities. You'll produce insightful reports that translate complex investment analysis into clear, actionable intelligence, and engage with colleagues across TPR to share knowledge and stay ahead of industry developments.

Your expertise will help shape guidance, support strategic decisions, and provide cover for Principal Investment Consultants when needed. A lot of our work involves problem solving and analysis, so the successful candidate is likely to be good at this, to approach work with appropriate care for detail and accuracy, and to communicate the results effectively.

This is an opportunity to influence the future of UK pensions, working at the heart of regulatory investment oversight.

This offers the chance for an investment professional to development their knowledge and experience of investment strategies, governance and risk management of large DC Master Trusts at a time when their investment strategies are evolving in line with their increasing scale and initiatives such as the Mansion House Accord.

The role criteria

• Analytical skills in investment strategy, and performance measurement and/or risk management
• Good knowledge of DC and/or DB investment strategy and a range of asset classes
• Excellent quantitative, report drafting and presentational skills
• Passionate about pensions and interested in current and emerging investment issues, including Master Trusts, Consolidation, Value for Money, Productive Finance and Climate Change
• Willingness to show curiosity, acquire new skills, knowledge, and seek personal growth
• Relevant professional qualification, or progress towards a qualification

The team

In Market Oversight, our focus is to build a deep understanding of both market-wide and individual schemes' risks and opportunities so that we can protect, enhance and innovate in savers' interests.

Master Trust and DC Supervision brings together multi-disciplinary teams - with experts in governance, investments, business analysis, law and more - to address individual scheme level risks, as well as those which could impact the wider financial ecosystem. Our focus is on schemes delivering real value with an emphasis on governance, investments, data quality/standards, and innovation, putting the saver at the heart of everything we do.

Reward and benefits

We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.

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Our culture

TPR strives to be a high-performing organisation, and we emphasise our people's growth and well-being. We offer various learning, secondment and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park, and were designed in 2023 to accessibility standards.

We're proud to have a range of networks and opportunities to bring people together with supportive and safe spaces to connect with one another.

About The Pensions Regulator

With a career at TPR, you'll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe.

Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital to good decision-making for positive saver outcomes. We're committed to creating a…