Cash Management - Finance Technician

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind the scenes.  It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Affairs – to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives and contributing to the success of the business every day.  

We’re recruiting for a Cash Management - Finance Technician to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary. You will be responsible for completing the daily cash management funding and payment administration activities for the bank accounts within our remit.

What you'll be doing:

• Being responsible for the daily calculation and input for all daily funding activities including manual payments within banking systems to be completed and passed to a senior member of the team for checking / validation
• Ensuring you are clear of errors which could have an impact on cash flow and rework within the team by highlighting / investigating abnormal balances within L&G’s bank accounts to establish root cause and implement future preventative changes as required
• Reconciling payments and receipts (Money-In and Money-Out), including cheque activity and ensuring all other controls and tasks are completed to a high standard of accuracy
• Assisting the Cash Management team with any ad-hoc projects, CI initiatives or queries that may arise
• Ensuring accurate MI is collated and maintained (timesheets) as well as the team’s workload
• Handling internal queries from staff and external queries to and from banks via telephone or email in a timely, accurate and professional manner to satisfy the needs of the team / business and/or project

Who we're looking for:

• Awareness of banking processes / Cash Management processes and online banking platforms is desirable
• Good standard of written and verbal communication.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft applications – particularly Excel.
• Proactively seeks solutions to problems.
• Builds and develops strong relationships with external contacts, staff, peers and other contacts within the business.

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 organisation, 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’re one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurers. Connecting to form a unique business model which drives value for our customers and society. And enabling our people to create impact through work that is meaningful and valued.  

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive 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. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose. 

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