Gemma works for Greenbank, which invests clients’ money in an ethical and sustainable manner. The company helps to promote positive change both through buying shares in companies which are making a positive impact and by engaging with policy makers to promote improvements.

Gemma’s role involves gathering information from clients on their finances, time they want to invest for and their attitude to investment risk. Do they want to invest in an exciting new project even if there’s risk it might fail? Gemma use this information to make suggestions to her manager.

Surprising bit? “There are more women than men in my company, which is often not the case in the finance sector.”

(Gemma’s used to be a flood risk engineer – making sure new developments wouldn’t get flooded. You don’t have to stick to a certain career path, Gemma’s used her transferable skills in teamworking and numbers to switch to finance).

Official job title: Investment Suitability Reviewer

Earning: £35,000 – £45,000

Workplace: Gemma’s mainly found at her computer working with investment managers and external financial advisors to find the best fit for her clients.

Best bits? “The people I work with and the support of the company allow you to have a good work-life balance, something that is very important to me after having cancer last year.

“The flexibility to make changes in current processes to make my role more efficient and improve quality of the reports we write.”