AustralianSuper
Intern Program - London (Jun 2025)
London
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Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- GBP 45000 / Year
- Note: the salary provided is not inclusive of 10% pension
- 2-3 vacancies
- Opens 3 Mar 2025
- Apply by 4 Apr 2025
- Start date 2 Jun 2025 - 28 Jul 2025
AustralianSuper is a leading and fast-growing global investor with offices in Australia, Asia, the United Kingdom and United States.
We are the largest superannuation (pension) fund in Australia, and one of the 20 largest pension funds globally, currently with ยฃ200bn in AUM. We are a profit-to-member fund with a โMembers firstโ focus and culture.
At AustralianSuper, we care about our colleagues. We know work and life are intertwined. Our policies support diversity, enabling all our colleagues to thrive at work and in their personal lives. We ensure diversity is celebrated for the opportunity it provides us all to learn and grow, and deliver better outcomes for members & colleagues.
Your new role
The AustralianSuper 2025 Intern Program is an exciting opportunity to build a career with a growing global investor. Commencing in June / July 2025, you will be exposed to a variety of our teams, developing the investment capabilities and skills to help our members achieve the best possible outcomes in retirement.
You will be exposed to professionals across all of our Investment Asset classes, as well as other functions required to support them, giving you the chance to build broad relationships, gain a deeper understanding of how each of these areas operate and participate in initiatives with other teams and functions.
This role is based on site at London Kingโs Cross Estate, one of our marquee assets in AustralianSuperโs global portfolio.
As an AustralianSuper intern, you will be a part of and work directly with our Investments Teams on transactions and Asset Management issues and initiatives, providing a unique opportunity to work directly with experienced investment professionals.
As an Investments intern, you will be able to working with and learning from our equities, private markets, fixed income and asset allocation teams.โฏ
Joining for 8-10 weeks from June / July to September, you will work directly with two of our asset class teams on real-life investment projects, forming views and presenting these findings back to Investments colleagues and leaders. You will be exposed to a range of investment methodologies and obtain firsthand knowledge of the investment process. You will also work on a variety of interesting and challenging business issues, gaining meaningful insights into how we deliver outstanding investment outcomes for members. โฏ
Following the successful completion of the Intern Program we intend to offer Graduate placement opportunities commencing in Aug/Sept 2026.
What youโll need โฏ
- A passion for investing and how Investments contribute to our Member focused purpose
- A creative problem solver who is intellectuallyโฏcurious.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Be solutions focused and align with the Fund's 'member-first' philosophy
- Share our values of Energy, Integrity, Generosity of Spirit and Excellent Outcomes
- Be in your final or penultimate year of an undergraduate or postgraduate degree
- Be able to join the Intern Program for 8-10 weeks from June / July 2025 to September 2025
- Be able to commence full time employment commencing September 2026 (2026 Graduate Program)
- Be a British citizen / Irish citizen or non-UK citizen with the ongoing right to work in the UK
Life at AustralianSuper
AustralianSuper is committed to colleague development, and we support our people with ongoing learning, coaching and training, as well as career opportunities across our expanding global organisation. We offer generous leave entitlements and promote a blended working environment in which all roles can flex, and weโre happy to discuss what this looks like for you.โฏ
We are committed to supporting our diverse workforce in a way that is inclusive and embraces diversity in all its forms. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let our recruitment team know.โฏ
Whatโs next
Register your interest now, if you share our values of Energy, Integrity, Generosity of Spirit and Excellent Outcomes and would like the opportunity to work in a challenging, growing and rapidly evolving team to deliver outstanding results.โฏ
Progress powered by purpose.โฏ
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- UK Citizen +more
- Business & Management +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
Asset management, excel modelling, preparing presentations, writing board papers, engaging with external stakeholders
Most of my role is just project work. Completing my list of tasks such as creating a dashboard or undertaking a quality review. I tend to work on big projects and am then delegated little tasks to help with the project and to develop my own technical skills.
My enjoyment of work depends on the rotation I'm currently working in. Some rotations have an abundance of meaningful work for me to do, however, other rotations do not have enough work for me to do.
About the employer
AustralianSuper
4.2
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Finance & Banking
AustralianSuper is for everyday Australians and businesses; they help invest membersโ money to create the best possible retirement outcomes.
Pros and cons of working at AustralianSuper
Pros
The culture is really good. I feel a strong sense of purpose working here.
The Fund is very supportive of your development, putting in the effort to facilitate experiences and opportunities which align with your goals.
The company is generally very flexible with work hours. It is strongly encouraged to come in around an average of at least 2 days each work to the office.
Great to have a graduate cohort to work with... flexible workplace... can work from home a few days a week.
Everyone is very helpful, especially with helping graduates. There are many great teams to try and learn new skills and develop both technical and soft skills.
Cons
I often experience some idle time as a graduate when waiting for more work to complete.
As a graduate, it is sometimes hard to get substantial work... rotating through many different teams means you are not in one place for long enough to get substantial work.
There is a bunch of 'development' sessions... these are all soft skills that most of us have developed prior to this program.
Bureaucracy and a tendency to run processes in a way that may be outdated but maintain status quo.
Sometimes teams are middle-to-senior manager heavy and junior sta๏ฌ don't get much support from colleagues to bridge the skills gap, therefore higher expectations to get ahead/up the learning curve faster than normal.