Business Data Analyst

Legal & General is one of Europe’s largest asset managers, providing clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, across public and private markets. As a global investor, we are present where our clients most need us – from Hong Kong and Singapore, to Chicago and major European financial hubs.

Created by combining our investment management (LGIM) and asset origination (LGC) capabilities, our Asset Management division works with our Institutional Retirement and Retail divisions to benefit our clients and customers – which include individual savers, pension scheme members and global institutions – and deliver enhanced shareholder returns.

Joining us means becoming part of a market-leading team, with capabilities across the full spectrum of asset classes, with an enduring commitment to responsible investment and creating long-term, sustainable value for our clients and partners.

Clsoing Date: 02/08/2024

We’re excited to now be recruiting for a Business Data Analyst to join us within our Chief Data Office. This role will be working across our business within Asset Management and L&G more broadly, to ensure we put data at the very heart of our operating model.

What you'll be doing:

• Engaging with business stakeholders across the organisation to understand their business goals and challenges. From these develop requirements and design small-scale data solutions. 
• Actively communicating with the key stakeholders – Business users, Solution and data Architects, Engineers, Data). Working with our customers, members of the Chief Data Office Team, Technology and the Change team to gather requirements in the form of User Stories, Features, Epics.
• Delivering analysis artefacts including user stories, data flows, service descriptions with defined acceptance criteria and any associated mapping specifications for development and testing
• Organising, cleansing, aligning, and correlating vast, complicated data sets to gain insight.
• Utilising modern data visualization platforms (Tableau and PowerBI), their different components and understand how they fit into our strategic architecture.
• Investigating Data Issues and identifying root causes for data issues collaborating with all Data Stakeholders to enable a complete understanding of problems and solutions.
• Driving the addition of new attributes, data quality controls and critical data elements to the Data Masters whilst ensuring alignment to our Data Management Policy

Who we're looking for:

• Experience of working on Data project/s in the Asset Management Industry.
• Aptitude for investigation and requirements gathering
• Demonstrate a good understanding of the Asset Management Industry, financial products, technologies and data domains
• Experience with data modelling, error-handling, version control, and unit testing and adept at building scalable and robust data pipelines.
• Collaborative approach to working with developers, architects, the Data Management Team and subject matter experts alike, to establish the facts, and ensure good communication of requirements
• Good understanding of data governance concepts including data domains, data ownership, data stewardship and application of critical data element standards and definitions
• Experience and knowledge of Data Quality dimensions and how to define DQ rules, metrics, validation processes and DQ Dashboards
• Ability to understand complex data flows and map data movement at data attribute level, across operational business processes

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   
• Private medical insurance (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 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart 

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.