Senior Analyst - Investment Consulting

Introduction

At Gallagher Benefit Services, you’re a trusted partner to organizations navigating some of their most important people decisions. We help clients build better workplaces, where people feel supported, empowered, and inspired to thrive. Whether it’s shaping benefit strategies, designing wellbeing programs, or advising on workforce challenges, the work you do here creates meaningful change for businesses and the people who power them. We’re a community of bold explorers, trusted experts, and compassionate partners; working side by side to solve problems, and shape the future of work. Here, curiosity is encouraged, collaboration is second nature, and your ideas have room to grow. If you’re looking for a place where your contribution matters and where you can help build a better world of work; think of Gallagher.

Overview

The investment consulting role at Gallagher is both client-facing and technical. As consultants, we have overall responsibility for our client relationships and the investment advice we deliver. To do this we collaborate closely with our specialists across our sustainable investment, asset-liability management, manager research and transition teams.

The majority of client work will focus on UK defined benefit corporate pension schemes, with the opportunity to develop experience across a broader range of institutional clients – including DC pension schemes, Charities, Endowments & Foundations, Insurers, Local Government Pension Schemes and Wealth Managers. We are keen to offer this flexibility to our people so they can develop broad experience and knowledge across different institutional investors.

We provide our Analysts and Senior Analysts with autonomy to contribute to key investment workstreams, as well as providing them with direct client exposure to in-house investment teams and Trustees that represent some of the largest asset owners in the UK and beyond.

This, alongside structured training, business development opportunities, and ongoing guidance from our lead consultants who take a genuine interest in your development, means our junior consultants have the support and opportunities required in order to grow in their careers.

How you'll make an impact

• Work on a portfolio of institutional clients, taking ownership of day-to-day investment workstreams.
• Prepare investment advice papers, collaborating with lead consultants and specialists teams across the business – including our sustainable investment, ALM, manager research and transitions teams.
• Where possible, presenting and meeting with our clients’ in-house investment teams and investment committees.
• Monitor client portfolios, capital markets developments and manager performance, ensuring clients' investment strategies remain fit for purpose.
• Where applicable, support and mentor other junior team members, sharing investment knowledge and helping to build team capability.
• Contribute to business development activity, including preparation of proposals and supporting new business initiatives.
• Engage with wider industry conversations – through thought leadership, blogs or conference participation – where relevant.

About you

Essential

• Confident communicator – able to present clearly and credibly to sophisticated clients.
• Self-starter who takes initiative, manages workloads effectively and delivers to deadlines.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint and Excel.
• Basic working knowledge of capital markets and investment strategy.
• For Analyst: No prior investment consulting experience required but keen interest in financial markets required.
• For Senior Analyst: Approximately 1-3 years of investment consulting or related institutional investment experience, ideally with exposure to UK pension clients.

For Senior Analyst – desirable but not essential

• CFA, FIA or equivalent professional qualification, or actively progressing towards one.
• Familiarity with sustainable investment principles and their application in institutional portfolios.
• An interest in contributing to industry dialogue through writing or speaking.
• Experience in project management and managing multiple competing workstreams across different stakeholders.

Compensation and benefits

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits include

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back-up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.