Senior Finance Analyst

• Permanent/Regular or Fixed Term Contract/Temporary:
  Permanent (UK and ROW) / Regular (US)
• L&G Business Unit:
  Legal & General Investment Management
• L&G sub Business Unit: LGIM
• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  Cardiff, Four Central Square
• Job Family:
  Finance

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

Our global asset management business provides our clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, working internationally across public and private markets.

We are one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor across public and private markets.

Asset Management is a critical driver of our Group strategy. The business aims to work synergistically with our Institutional Retirement and Retail divisions to benefit our clients and customers, and deliver enhanced shareholder returns.

Our investment philosophy and processes are focused on creating value over the long term. We believe that incorporating financially material sustainability criteria, when relevant to our clients, can create value and drive positive change.

We’re recruiting for aSenior Finance Analyst to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working with data, asking good questions and turning financial information into clear insight.

You’ll support financial planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis, while also helping the team improve how it uses data, automation and emerging technology. The role would suit someone analytical, curious and collaborative, with strong attention to detail and an interest in making finance processes simpler, clearer and more efficient

• Supporting financial planning, forecasting and reporting activities
• Preparing, reviewing and explaining financial data for stakeholders
• Reviewing data exceptions and supporting month-end activity linked to AUM and flows
• Supporting monthly ANNR forecasting and distribution team data requests
• Identifying opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate finance processes
• Collaborating with Data colleagues on automation projects, testing and implementation
• Maintaining and improving reporting tools, dashboards and analysis packs
• Building trusted relationships across Finance, business stakeholders and technical teams

• Part-qualified accountant, working towards ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CFA or equivalent, or able to demonstrate relevant finance experience
• Experience in financial planning, analysis, reporting or management information
• Strong analytical skills and confidence interpreting data, variances and key movements
• Excellent attention to detail and commitment to accurate, well-controlled outputs
• Clear communication skills and confidence working with Finance, business and technical stakeholders
• Good Excel skills, with Tableau, Power BI or similar reporting tools beneficial
• Interest in automation, process improvement and practical AI use in finance
• Asset Management experience would be helpful, but is not essential

• The opportunity to participate in…