Data & Analytics Lead

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 Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best. 

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description Good decisions depend on clear, trusted information. We are looking for a Data and Analytics Lead to develop and evolve the reporting, analytics and insight capability within our Retail Controls Office.

You will act as a technical specialist and trusted partner, turning complex governance, operational, customer and risk data into useful insight. You will help simplify reporting, automate manual activity and create scalable dashboards and data products that support business management, governance oversight and better customer outcomes.

This is an individual-contributor role with broad influence. It would suit someone who enjoys combining hands-on technical delivery with stakeholder consulting and has the confidence to shape how an organisation uses its data.

What you’ll be doing :

Collaborating with data leaders from across the business

Partnering with stakeholders to understand priorities and define analytical requirements

Automating reporting and reducing manual processes and duplication

Analysing operational, customer, governance and risk data to identify trends and emerging issues

Designing dashboards, visualisations, data models and analytical products

Establishing controls over data definitions, calculations and transformation logic

Improving the accuracy, accessibility and reusability of management information

Who we’re looking for:

Advanced experience using Power BI, Tableau or an equivalent visualisation tool Strong SQL capability and experience building and maintaining complex datasets

Experience using Python, Power Automate or similar technologies to improve reporting processes

Experience designing data models, reporting frameworks and dashboard solutions

The ability to translate business requirements into practical analytical products

Experience working with governance, risk, regulatory or operational data in a regulated environment

Strong stakeholder-management and consulting skills

The ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences

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 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday

Competitive family leave

Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online

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