Working at A J Bell is something we want people to enjoy - after all, we all spend a lot of time at work each week. We won a number of industry awards in 2011 but we are also particularly proud to say that we achieved the Best Companies 2012 "One to Watch" status this year. That's recognition we do a lot of things right with our people.
What our staff say
We know we're not the finished article and we work hard to continuously improve working life at A J Bell. In addition to the Times 100 Best Companies to Work For survey, we also conduct regular in-house surveys and focus groups to help us get a better understanding of our employees views. To give you an idea of what came up in our most recent survey, we've highlighted a couple of our key results from 2011 below:
- 90% of our staff are proud to be employees (a 3% increase from 2010)
- 92% of our staff are optimistic about A J Bell's future (up 1.5% from 2010)
Rewards & other benefits
On top of a competitive basic salary, we offer a range of benefits:
- Basic holiday entitlement of 22 days holiday, increasing to a maximum of 29 days for each completed year
- Membership of a discretionary bonus scheme, where you may be financially rewarded for your performance twice a year
- A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions, including a Sippdeal SIPP
- Discounted private healthcare scheme
- Discounted gym membership
- Childcare vouchers
- Training and professional qualification support (for more info please look at the T&D Page here)
- Career progression
- Paid time off for volunteer work
- Support for charity work including corporate sponsorship for groups and individuals
- Enhanced maternity and paternity payments, subject to length of service qualifying criteria
- Parking, subject to availabilty