Executive Assistant in London - National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

London

£36,000 - £39,000 (dependent on experience)

Permanent

Not Specified

37.5 Working Hours - (Flexible)

26 May 2025

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Role Overview

We’re looking for an experienced Executive Assistant, with Investment//Finance sector experience, to provide and hands-on support to the CEO of Nest Invest and their teams. You will responsible for complex diary and travel management, and all the other bespoke administrative support that provides the essential basis to our CEO's and their team's work (for example; preparing papers, screening and managing the CEO's inbox).

The Executive Assistant will work closely with the senior management across Nest Invest to ensure key meetings are effective and milestones are met, and to support the smooth administration of Nest Invest processes.

We are open to discussing working patterns.

We welcome all internal applicants to apply for our roles, regardless of your current working pattern or hours. We will aim to accommodate your request and match your current working arrangements.

Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.

Reward and recognition

A discretionary bonus scheme
Reward and recognition scheme
Enhanced auto enrolled pension – your contributions start at the default 5% while ours are higher at 8%. If you up your contributions to 6% we raise ours to 9%. If you contribute 7% or more we’ll contribute 10%.
Income protection scheme – is an insurance benefit that provides you with income if you cannot work due to illness or incapacity.

Click here to see the benefits we offer at Nest.

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
reduce or vary working hours
reduce or vary the days worked
work compressed hours
job share

For more information about our recruitment process click here

Directorate/Department Overview

Nest Invest has approx. 60 employees across various teams with busy work levels. We are looking for an Executive Assistant who is able to provide excellent support, which provides the basis for the team to deliver world-class service.

The Nest Invest team is responsible for investing members’ contributions in order to grow their retirement pots over the long-term.

The responsibilities of the team include:

Asset allocation and portfolio risk management
Manager selection and monitoring
Responsible investment
Investment communications
Fund administration
Investment technology and financial modelling
Contributing to the development of the investment proposition

From December 2019, all the Nest Investment team and the Investment Operations team were seconded into Nest Invest Ltd (Nest Invest), the investment subsidiary of Nest Corporation.

Nest Invest Ltd (Nest Invest) is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). For the role holder, this means working in a regulated entity, and being required to adhere to certain rules and behaviours included in the FCA’s Code of Conduct (COCON), specifically the individual Conduct Rules defined by the FCA.

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have disability, declare that you’re applying through the scheme and meet the minimum criteria for this role, we aim to invite you to an interview. However, there may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.

If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: [email protected].

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