Initiatives 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 Are you naturally curious, analytical and motivated by making things work better?

We're looking for an Investments Initiatives Analyst to join our Investments Process & Change team. This is an opportunity to work at the heart of the investment business, supporting strategic change initiatives that improve processes, technology, data and operating models across Investments. You'll partner with a wide range of stakeholders, helping to solve business challenges, deliver meaningful improvements and contribute to the long-term success of the function.

What you’ll be doing :

Supporting the evaluation, prioritisation and delivery of strategic investment initiatives

Analysing business processes, operating models and data flows to identify improvement opportunities

Gathering, documenting and translating business requirements into practical solutions

Collaborating with investment teams, technology, operations, finance and data stakeholders

Facilitating workshops, working groups and governance forums

Monitoring project progress, dependencies, risks and issues across initiatives

Producing reporting, presentations and updates for senior stakeholders

Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability and operational effectiveness across Investments Who we’re looking for:

Experience with in investment management, asset management or financial services

Experience supporting business change, transformation, process improvement or strategic initiatives

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Ability to gather business requirements and translate them into clear, practical solutions

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Experience working across multiple teams and building strong relationships

Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities

Knowledge of investment operating models, front office processes or business analysis methodologies would be advantageous

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

We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our…