Aon Industrial Placement Programme - Investment Consulting 2025

at  Aon Corporation

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:

• You will need to be on track to achieve a 2:1 degree (or equivalent) in any degree subject area
  Please be aware for future opportunities, including graduate roles, applicants must be eligible to work in the UK without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future; or you have pre-settled or settled status from the EU Settlement Scheme – or if you have applied and you’re waiting for a decision.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Motivation and ambition – you will need to be able to articulate why you want to join the Investment consulting programme
• Passion and inquisitiveness – we are looking for candidates who want to understand what we do and are eager to learn more and develop your own views and ideas on economic and investment markets
• Commercial awareness – this helps us to provide support and advice to our clients with clarity and confidence
  Locations: Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh
  We recognise the value for our Early Career colleagues of being in the office environment from the beginning of their programme. As a new early career colleague, you will spend the first 6 months based in the office to support your learning, development, and progression. This will enable you access to support from managers, collaborate with colleagues as well as grow your network across Aon. After completing this initial training period, you will then have the opportunity to work more flexibly, spending at least 3 to 4 days face to face in the Aon office or with clients.

YOUR ROLE ON OUR INVESTMENT CONSULTING INDUSTRIAL PLACEMENT

As an Investment Consulting industrial placement student in either our Defined Benefit (DB) Client Group or Defined Contribution (DC) Client Group, you will be helping to advise our clients on everything from setting investment strategies and selection of investment managers to corporate transactions and asset transfers.

• You’ll be a key member of our dedicated teams, playing a vital, hands-on role in giving our global clients the support they need. This involves providing investment servicing and advice covering markets and strategic considerations, such as managing assets (for both the DB and DC Client Groups) and liabilities (for the DB Client Group only). You’ll gain early experience of dealing with a wide range of investments, adapting them around economic conditions and outlooks.
• In the DB Client Group, you’ll also learn how and why pension scheme liabilities change because of economic assumptions – such as inflation, interest rates and the effect that market movements have on invested assets. Whilst in the DC Client Group, you’ll learn about the DC pension vehicles, applicable regulatory and legislative rules and main asset classes and investment theory relating specifically to a DC pension scheme.

Once you’ve completed the formal Industrial Placement programme, depending on your performance, you may be offered a role on our graduate programme for the following year. When you return, you’ll be part of our Launch development programme where we’ll fully support your study towards your Investment Management Certificate (IMC) Professional Qualification. After that, we’ll ask you to choose between taking either the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) or Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) professional qualification. To find out more about each qualification, please visit the following links:

• Investment Management Certificate (IMC)
• Charted Financial Analyst (CFA)
• Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA