Counterparty Onboarding PM/BA Hybrid

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.

We’re recruiting for a Counterparty Onboarding Specialist on a 12month FTC. The Counterparty Onboarding Team is to support LGIM's trading and investment activities by ensuring all required brokers and funds, across all relevant instruments and markets, are set-up ready to support the trading and investment activity. 

What you'll be doing:

• Understanding, communicating, and implementing the Counterparty Onboarding deliverables relating to the STOM (Strategic Target Operating Model) program.
• Acting as a point of contact representing Counterparty Onboarding to stakeholders both within LGIM and third party representatives.
• Developing new onboarding processes and challenge existing flows with a focus on mitigating risk, creating scalability and a sound operating model.
• Being comfortable presenting the Counterparty Onboarding vision to stakeholders both within global operations and across the business.
• Working closely with the external vendor on development of the onboarding platform to meet Counterparty Onboarding requirements.
• Engaging across operations and the wider business to identify opportunities where the platform can help standardise and streamline heritage processes.
• Being the agent of transformation within Counterparty Onboarding, comfortable documenting and presenting current operational flows, partnering with the required stakeholders to map out future operational processes.

Who we're looking for:

• Technical investment knowledge/experience relevant to the role from operating in a similar function
• Experience with broker onboarding platforms (e.g. Saphyre, S&G Global’s Counterparty Manager or similar) an advantage.
• Experience managing a vendor relationship including the book of work.
• Demonstrable ability in analysing existing processes and data to spot improvement opportunities.
• Collaborative and personalised approach to service commitment, delivery
  and continuous improvement.
• Experience of planning and implementing projects.
• Proactive approach to problem solving and able to work accurately under
  pressure.
• Strong communication skills, both verbally and written, with an ability to
  successfully articulate issues clearly and logically.
• Ability to understand issues and find creative and innovative solutions to
  problems.

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.