Senior Finance Analyst

Company Description 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.

Who we are 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.

Job Description We’re recruiting for a Senior 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

What you’ll be doing :

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

Who we’re looking for:

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

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance
-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes

Generous pension contribution

Life assurance

Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2…