We are looking for keen and motivated graduates to join our 2024 Graduate Programme as part of our Wealth Management division, Cazenove Capital Management.
About Schroders
Schroders is a global investment manager which helps institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their aspirations, and prepare for the future.
Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to our clients through active management. By serving clients, we serve wider society. Channelling capital into sustainable and durable businesses accelerates positive change in the world. Funding the future is a privilege: we use it wisely and responsibly.
We employ over 5700 talented people worldwide operating in 37 different locations across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, close to the markets in which we invest and close to our clients.
Schroders has developed under stable ownership for over 200 years and long-term thinking governs our approach to investing, building client relationships and growing our business.
The base
We’re based in the City of London – close to our clients, in the heart of the UK’s financial centre and have everything we need to work flexibly.
The department
Cazenove Capital Management (‘Cazenove Capital’) is the UK Wealth Management business of the Schroder Group in the UK. Cazenove Capital offers specialist financial solutions to high net worth individuals, family offices, charities and their advisers, utilising both Schroders and Cazenove Capital’s investment expertise and external providers and resources. We are one of the best providers of portfolio management, banking and investment advisory services for private clients and charities. Founded on the long-term relationships forged over many years, we’ve established ourselves as a leader in the private wealth management sector.
We focus on growing and preserving wealth, using the knowledge of our economics and investment strategy teams, and using both proprietary Schroders investment products and external funds in structuring our clients’ portfolios. This enables us to provide a highly personal wealth management service to wealthy individuals, families and their advisers.
We provide a full range of products including deposit-taking, cash management, custody and execution services, discretionary asset management, financial planning, private assets, family office services and specialised lending.
Sustainability is embedded into our investment process and we are regarded as one of the industry experts in responsible investment
Clients benefit from the unique combination of exceptional management, a top professional team, and excellent technology for risk management and portfolio construction. The team is known for its dynamic, client focused and entrepreneurial culture.
The programme
As a graduate within Wealth Management you will spend time within a variety of different teams within the Wealth Management business, in order to help you build a broad and agile career within wealth management.
Together with your peers you will join a Schroder-wide technical training programme which introduces you to all aspects of the Investment Management business in preparation to do the Investment Management Certificate Exam and the CFA qualification as part of your training programme.
What you’ll be like
Good interpersonal and communication skills
Genuine passion and interest in wealth management
Innovative and analytical – you’re happy to think outside the box and look for a fresh perspective
A desire to get involved in variety of tasks and projects
Teamwork
The knowledge, skills and qualifications we’re looking for
An honours degree or equivalent – we’re not fussed when it comes to your degree subject or predicted grade
You will be in your final year of study or already graduated
Why join us:
Gain the Investment Management Certificate (IMC) in your first few weeks. The IMC benchmark entry-level qualification into the UK investment profession
Gain a professional qualification like the Chartered Wealth Management (CWM)
over the course of the programme
Benefit from a series of immersive and engaging training sessions equipping you with the skills you need to adapt to the world of work, hit the ground running and make an impact – training covers industry knowledge, technical and soft skills training
Attend “Lunch and Learns/ “Coffee Hours” led by senior people across the business – your chance to build contacts in the industry and grow your professional network
Access to a buddy – we’ll match you with a graduate buddy where you’ll be supported during the first few weeks of your internship, helping you to integrate into the team and the business
Access to Employee Assistance Programme – providing you with access to 24 hour confidential telephone counselling and a comprehensive online source of information on a range of issues, including Mental Health
Free use of private GP Service
On-site staff restaurant
Free use of on-site gym
Recruitment process
Online application form and CV
Online assessments
Online video interview
Assessment centre
Final round interview with senior member of the business
Candidates should be available to start the graduate programme on 12 September 2024.
If you think you may require disability-related adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact adjustments@employ-ability.org.uk our disability partner EmployAbility (employ-ability.org.uk) for a confidential discussion and advice.
We recruit on a rolling basis and may choose to close this role earlier than advertised. Therefore we recommend you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
We recognise potential, whoever you are
Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought facilitated by an inclusive culture will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer: you are welcome here regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or any other protected characteristics.
As a global investment manager, we help institutions, intermediaries and individuals across the planet meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. But as the world changes, so do our clients’ needs. That’s why we have a long history of adapting to suit the times and keeping our focus on what matters most to our clients.
Doing this takes experience and expertise. We bring together people and data to spot the trends that will shape the future. This provides a unique perspective which allows us to always invest with conviction. We are responsible for £737.5 billion (€831.3 billion/$887.2 billion)* of assets for our clients who trust us to deliver sustainable returns. We remain determined to build future prosperity for them, and for all of society. Today, we have 6,100+ people across six continents who focus on doing just this.
We are a global business that’s managed locally. This allows us to always keep our clients’ needs at the heart of everything we do. For over two centuries and more than seven generations we’ve grown and developed our expertise in tandem with our clients’ needs and interests.
Source: Schroders, all data as at 31 December 2022.
Disclaimer: Investing in securities is subject to risk. The value of investments can go down as well as up and is not guaranteed.
