Investment20/20 helps drive a forward thinking, responsible and inclusive investment industry where every firm attracts, develops and retains talented people from all backgrounds.
The Investment20/20 trainee programme offers jobs across the investment industry depending on where your interests and skills are.
All sorts of people with different backgrounds, educations and skills, work in a variety of roles. From school leavers to graduates to experienced professionals, the investment industry offers plenty of high-quality and stimulating jobs that help shape the world we live in.
Those in the industry work on some of the country’s and the world’s most interesting challenges and issues. These include climate change, the increasing role of technology, the impact of an ageing population, and the growing financial power of emerging economies.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management, an Investment20/20 member, has created short films to explain the sector.
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Corporate Roles
Company Finance
Companies need to keep close tabs on their finances. They run regular reports for internal purposes and also to fulfil legal requirements. Finance departments have the clearest handle on the health and progress of the business. They produce the corporate accounts and help to chart the path for the company going forward, backing up business strategy with numbers.
Managing people
Human resources (HR) departments look after staff, set expectations and help employees with their career development. In doing so, they maintain and improve the health of the business. The skills and knowledge required are similar in all industries, but the innovative and global nature of the investment management industry makes it a good place to build a career. Jobs might focus on one of the more specialist areas such as recruitment and resourcing; performance and reward; employee relations and engagement; learning and development or the overall HR strategy.
Legal
Companies have professionally qualified teams to handle their legal obligations across the business. Legal questions may arise from specific issues concerning regulation, new client relationships or any commercial contracts; or advice may be needed when companies want to raise fresh capital, undertake mergers or acquisitions, or potentially run into trouble. The legal department is integral to the business and its development.
Technology
Technology is fundamental to supporting business activity: from trading stocks and shares to performance and risk calculation, and from web sites to desktops. Technical and analytical skills are needed to build effective and efficient systems that allow businesses to grow and develop in the ways they want and need to. Change is continual with demand coming from the business, increased globalisation, new market rules and improvements in technology. This is a rapidly growing area and there are many exciting opportunities available through Investment20/20, for example in software development and data architecture, new systems, information technology (IT) infrastructure, implementing innovation, IT security and business analysis.
“The Investment20/20 programme has been incredible since I joined J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The support and opportunities they provide is unmatched and has allowed me to excel within an industry where I entered with no previous experience. I started in 2016 as a trainee in the client services team and have progressed into a sales support in the UK Institutional team, now starting to look after my own clients. Investment20/20 really is to thank as they equipped me with the skills and provided a platform to grow a strong network within the industry.”
Nicole Vale, Associate, UK Institutional, J.P. Morgan Asset Management
