Mercer

Business Support Executive

11/12/2024
full-time
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Job Description

We are looking for a Business Support Executive to join our MMB Business. You will be an essential part of a highly skilled team by collaborating with our client facing colleagues, providing administrative support to senior consultants.

The Business Support Executive will be supporting a number of consultants within MMB across locations in the UK so can be based in either our Glasgow, Bristol or Birmingham offices.

This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.


We will count on you to:

  • Create documentation using PowerPoint, Excel and Word
  • Schedule Zoom meetings, including the co-ordination of set up requirements to optimize management workflow
  • Process expenses, book meetings, and format documentation
  • Be highly professional with a proven ability to work in a consultative and collaborative manner
  • Take ownership by focusing on quality and timeliness of delivery
  • Problem solve, with the ability to apply logic and experience to assist with the development of solutions for clients


What you need to have:

  • Comprehensive Microsoft Office proficiency. You will mainly use Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
  • Strong communication skills. You will collaborate with colleagues who are remote so the ability to communicate effectively is key.
  • Exceptional time management skills. Although this role is highly collaborative, your work is also self-directed so you will need to effectively manage your time.
  • Ability to multi-task to meet deadlines.
  • Attention to detail is critical to ensure we’re providing accurate information to stakeholders


What makes you stand out:

  • Previous experience in a large complex organisation.


Why join our team:

  • We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
  • We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
  • Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Mercer, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is a global leader in helping clients realize their investment objectives, shape the future of work and enhance health and retirement outcomes for their people. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $23 billion and more than 85,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit mercer.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@mmc.com.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.

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Mufg

Business Support Executive

04/12/2024
Other
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Job Description

Our Credit & Investment Team at Link Treasury Services, a part of MUFG Corporate Markets, a division of MUFG Pension & Market Services, are looking to recruit a Business Support Executive to join the team as part of a university placement year. The team provide proactive investment advice to clients, including conducting research on new products that come to market with themes such as the Environment and Social Governance (ESG). In addition, we provide an Agency Treasury Service (ATS), which allows clients to place various deposits through us with our range of panel banks.

The Business Support Executive will join as a junior member of the team, working to provide a range of reports, economic commentaries and presentations, as well as historic and live market data to the wider team and our clients.

This is a great role, enabling you to learn, grow and develop personally and professionally within a supportive team who are willing to teach you on the job. This will enable you to expand your knowledge of financial markets in a progressive, market leading company that prides itself on offering investment in personal development.

This role is a hybrid role, with a blend of both working from home and from our London based office , so you need to be within commuting distance of central London. The nearest tube/DLR stations are Tower Hill, Liverpool Street Station, Monument, Aldgate and Bank Station

Benefits:

26 days annual leave, plus a wellbeing day, a volunteer day , bank holidays and the opportunity to buy up to 5 days’ extra each year

Health, wellbeing and lifestyle rewards that can be tailored to support you and your family. Everything from: Employee Assistance Programme; Discounts on retail and socialising; Travel and technology; cycle2work scheme; A host of gym and fitness subscriptions; Car Salary Sacrifice scheme

Appreciate programme : Employee recognition programme

Company Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Medical Insurance

Paid Maternity, Paternity, Adoption Leave, Shared Parental Leave

What you need:

As with any role, we want to find the right person and we want to make sure you know it’s the right role for you too.

Candidates should be in the second year of an undergraduate degree, looking to start work for 1 year in the Summer of 2025.

You also need:

  • To be an enthusiastic go-getter with an interest in Financial Markets, looking to start their career within a supportive investment team
  • An understanding that there are repetitive tasks within a role, but with the enthusiasm to undertake anything that is assigned to you, so you’ll be a realist
  • An enquiring and inquisitive mind, an individual who can question processes and ask how we can make things more streamlined
  • Passion, energy and overall an eager team player who can work under direction as well as motivate themselves to work on their own
  • Excellent attention to detail, aligned with planning and organisational skills
  • Exceptional listening skills with the ability to take on board feedback and training from a well-established team, growing and learning from the feedback
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels
  • Microsoft Office competency, particularly using Excel, which should be clearly identified through either using it as part of your course or having taken external training modules
Day to Day, you will:

  • Compose daily and weekly commentaries which review major economic events and market activity for distribution to clients
  • Produce monthly fund monitoring reports for distribution to the wider Treasury team whilst liaising with Client Relationship Managers and Client Executives to ensure reports remain relevant and informative
  • Update the weekly ATS rate sheet, inputting the rates received by our panel banks for distribution to clients
  • Check ATS deals placed to ensure processes have been followed correctly, the correct information has been saved for auditing purposes and all figures reconcile
  • Produce client deal confirmations for both daily deals placed and monthly accrued interest statements
  • Attend seminars which include sessions from market-leading experts such as Capital Economics, to gain a greater understanding of current market conditions and forecasts

The above list of key accountabilities is not an exhaustive list and may change from time-to-time based on business needs.

MUFG Pension & Market Services is a global, digitally enabled business connecting millions of people with their assets – safely, securely and responsibly.

Through our two businesses MUFG Retirement Solutions and MUFG Corporate Markets, we partner with a diversified portfolio of global clients to provide robust, efficient and scalable services, purpose-built solutions and modern technology platforms that deliver world class outcomes and experiences.

A member of MUFG, a global financial group, we help manage regulatory complexity, improve data management and connect people with their assets, through exceptional user experience that leverages the expertise of our people combined with scalable technology, digital connectivity and data insights.

Our MUFG Corporate Markets division provides clients with a comprehensive corporate market offering that connects issuers to their stakeholders. Our uniquely integrated range of corporate markets capabilities includes shareholder management and analytics, stakeholder engagement, share and unit registry, and employee share plans. We also offer company secretarial support, as well as various specialist offerings such as insolvency solutions. We operate in twelve countries throughout Australasia, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, United Kingdom and Europe.

Our teams combine a wealth of industry experience with a rigorous focus on client management to deliver a premium service underpinned by market leading digital technology provided by our Technology division.

MUFG Pension & Market Services is building a dynamic, client focused, caring and inclusive culture that is built on the foundations of an entrepreneurial spirit, effective risk management, empathy and trust, and underpinned by its core values.

We are an inclusive employer whose people work collaboratively. We encourage, support and value the various talents and perspectives of our people and promote a flexible and blended work environment where our people can thrive and their wellbeing is supported. We know that diversity drives better client outcomes, continuous improvement, and growth. Be part of the MUFG Pension & Market Services journey and together we will achieve our full potential.

We treat all individuals fairly and equitably and do not discriminate on the basis of diverse characteristics including, but not limited to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, cultural background, physical abilities/disabilities, religious or political belief, marital or family status or carers responsibilities.

Candidates must have the relevant work rights to be considered for an opportunity at MUFG Pension & Market Services. Successful applicants will be required to complete background screening prior to commencement of employment.

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