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Corporate Responsibility Intern - London - 12-Month Placement 2024-2025

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AXA Investment Managers

Feb 16

Applications are closed

  • Internship
    Full-time
    Placement Program
  • Business, Operations & Strategy
  • London

Requirements

  • Strong project management and organisational skills – ability to maintain material/plans and presentations with updated information and data (i.e updating the weekly WIP report)
  • An interest in responsible investment, corporate responsibility and sustainability topics – engagement and curiosity in these areas is important
  • Teamworking capabilities
  • Good knowledge of IT tools – Microsoft Office in particular (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams)
  • Effective business partnering – desire to collaborate and maintain trust-based relationships with key stakeholders
  • Multi tasking – a need to work on many activities simultaneously and be aware of multiple deadlines
  • A positive and confident personality, happy to work with senior stakeholders
  • Impressive written and verbal communication skill
  • Have strong numerical capability, particularly data analysis
  • Strong attention to detail
  • An interest and knowledge of financial services / asset management

Responsibilities

  • Reporting:
  • A key role for the intern is working on the annual reports we perform as a company. There are multiple of these which are focused across our ESG framework. This largely involves data analysis and communicating with relevant data suppliers globally.
  • Manage data collection and reporting (under CR Manager supervision) on three key reportings for AXA Group (Environmental reporting, Community Survey and Sustainability Index).
  • Support on AXA IM’s own environmental report - GEMS
  • Contribute to understanding of upcoming CSRD regulation.
  • Impact philanthropy:
  • We are looking to adapt this programme as part of an effort to improve company culture and further incorporate employees into this initiative.
  • To work with CR team to develop current philanthropy programme and opportunities to evolve with new activities/approach.
  • Continue relevant competitor research on the philanthropy topic.
  • Prepare proposal for senior sign off and set up governance for deployment. Manage day to day relationships with the charities and ensure regular reporting on progress is conducted.
  • Modern slavery and human rights:
  • This topic is critical for us as a company to display our values and truly walk the talk. Supporting the team in this topic is central to the role.
  • To conduct competitor mapping on human rights activity and to assess what more might be done at AXA IM to demonstrate our commitment to be a responsible business. To review local regulatory requirements by company and ensure that AXA IM works to best practice standards.
  • To prepare local reporting for submission where required
  • To work alongside compliance in order to address processes and advance on any recommendations (increased training for staff, revised processes).
  • CO2 reduction strategies
  • We partner with an external consultant in order to further refine our net zero roadmap. A key project within this is the development and implementation of office ‘best practices’ to be distributed to all our local offices. This holds the aim of decreasing our remaining scope 1&2 emissions.
  • Best practice on reducing emissions - support our different offices by implementing ‘best practice’ guidance sheets on how to reduce key emissions. These hold a focus on power, car fleet, business travel, water, waste, and paper. Working with the support our consultant, ensure our offices have these available to them. Support local offices with advice and guidance on measures to reduce emissions.
  • Renewable energy transition for our key offices:
  • Lead on maintaining renewable electricity supply to offices.
  • Assess the feasibility of directly sourcing renewable electricity in 2024, communicating with the local offices and their different suppliers.
  • Provide our provider with the correct figures for 2024 electricity consumption.
  • Day to day management of CR office:
  • Manage team governance (meetings and discussions, minutes)
  • Support implementation of CR projects, activities on governance/administrative processes – monitoring the CR budget and spend
  • Be up to date on CR current affairs
  • Management of the team’s work in progress tracker
  • Supporting the business on client RFPs, with metrics and information on progress
  • Maintenance of CR SharePoint
  • Support the team with writing/updating educational presentations to Teams
  • Work on internal communications and engagement programmes

AXA Investment Managers

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Finance
Industry
1001-5000
Employees
1997
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Our ambition is to be a leading responsible asset manager. As a responsible asset manager, we actively invest for the long term to help our clients, our people and the world to prosper and secure a sustainable future for the planet. It is in our DNA and unites everyone across the company. We are a responsible investor We have already seen signs that the global economy is starting to move to a more sustainable and equitable model over the next decade, and we will take an active role in powering that transition. We are a responsible business As a committed active investor we are led by our conviction. With fundamental research at the core of our process, our global team seek out and develop the most efficient and robust sources of performance across our strategies. We know that with conviction, we can advance and best serve the interests of our clients. We are a responsible employer Being responsible is in our DNA as a firm and is central to our ethos as an employer. It is embedded in how we grow and protect our people. It unites our team, from our leaders, to our growing number of specialists, to the newest members of our teams. We are part of the AXA Group Our heritage within AXA Group, a recognised innovator, has hard-wired our business for continual improvement. As our most demanding and challenging client, they help us to achieve excellence. Our relationship with our parent company also means protection and stability are part of our heritage.

Benefits

  • Fixed Remuneration,

  • Discretionary Variable Remuneration,

  • Attractive Local and Global Benefit Programmes

  • Learning and Career Development Opportunities.