Finance Analyst

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 Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.  

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day. 

We’re looking for a detail-oriented Finance Analyst to join our team, supporting the management of expenses and allocation processes across the business. You’ll play a key role in ensuring accurate financial reporting, providing insightful MI, and supporting stakeholders with expense-related queries. This is a great opportunity for someone developing their finance career to gain exposure across financial reporting, controls and process improvement in a collaborative environment.

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting the production of allocated expense reporting across actuals, forecast and plan, ensuring data integrity and consistency
• Processing allocation rule updates, completing reconciliations and producing month end MI and reporting outputs
• Managing ledger period close activities, maintaining the chart of accounts and supporting fixed asset processes
• Preparing and posting journals, completing reconciliations and investigating and resolving outstanding items
• Producing VAT returns, statutory reporting files and consolidated reconciliation packs
• Collaborating with finance teams to support expense, fixed asset and allocation processes and resolving queries
• Delivering MI and analytical support, including ad hoc reporting for finance and operational stakeholders
• Identifying opportunities for process improvements and supporting system enhancements and automation initiatives

Who we’re looking for:

• Studying towards or part-qualified in ACCA or CIMA, or equivalent experience in an analytical finance role
• Experience preparing reconciliations, financial analysis and reporting within a finance function
• Strong working knowledge of accounting systems, including ledger postings and reconciliation processes
• Confidence using Excel and Microsoft Office tools, with experience handling data from multiple systems
• Familiarity with finance systems such as Oracle and MI/reporting tools such as Power BI
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and the ability to meet tight deadlines
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to engage and build relationships across teams
• A proactive mindset, able to solve problems, challenge processes and contribute to continuous improvement

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 sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

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 care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

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.