Index Junior Analyst - Analytics and Technology

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.

Due to internal progression and the growth of the Index team, we’re looking to hire an Index Junior Analyst - Analytics and Technology to provide support with implementing the development on various in-house fund management tools, that assist our Fund Managers and Senior Fund Managers in the management of funds.

A varied role offering exposure to many internal teams within L&G Asset Management, individuals will need to have proven experience of building internal relationships, will have knowledge of the programming language Python, and will thrive on automating processes and working proactively to problem solve issues for our clients.

• Providing support on and carrying out development on various in-house fund management tools that assist Fund Managers and Senior Fund Managers in the management of funds
• Participating in ad-hoc quantitative and qualitative research and preparing material for investment reports as required
• Helping in analysing corporate actions and recommending action to take
• Assisting with client servicing, including responding to client requests and preparing materials for client and consultant presentations
• Producing various reports including fund holding, attribution, and risk reports on a regular basis
• Assisting with analyses of portfolio breakdowns and transfers, index construction and changes
• Analysing and attributing portfolio performance
• Automating processes and proactively solving issues for internal stakeholders

• Previous experience of working within Investment Management or finance is preferable, however we will also consider candidates with proven programming skills from other industries
• Proven knowledge of Python or demonstrable experience with another coding language is essential
• A demonstrable knowledge of a variety of asset classes, with a focus on index preferable
• Creative, with the ability to identify potential issues, and create solutions accordingly
• Experience of developing processes to improve/support client requests advantageous
• Proactive, and keen to learn and develop.
• Have previously reviewed or evaluated index strategies and/or previous experience in evaluating benchmarks

• 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 the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and…