Investment Manager - Credit

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.

L&G Institutional Retirement looks after around 700,000 institutional customers who have their retirement benefits secured with us. Operating continuously in the UK market from our entrance in 1987, we are the UK’s longest-running insurer.

Our Institutional Retirement division provides pension risk transfer (PRT) solutions for UK and US defined benefit (DB) schemes, and reinsurance solutions from our global hub in Bermuda. We work with companies, DB pension schemes and their advisors to help them secure and protect scheme members’ retirement benefits.

Joining us means you’ll support customers’ financial security in retirement; help companies to settle their pension liabilities and focus on growing their businesses; and enable investment for the long term to back our pension promises.

We’re currently looking to hire an Investment Manager - Credit to join L&G Institutional Retirement - Investments

As a member of the Credit team within Portfolio Management, the role holder contributes to portfolio management of Institutional Retirement’s Credit Investments, definition of risk appetites and oversight of the mandate with Asset Management and Institutional Retirement’s asset sourcing channels across private and traded credit

What you'll be doing:

• Evaluating private and traded credit investments to assess portfolio fit, relative value and compliance with relevant risk appetites and limits
   
• Supporting the continuous development of the set of available Credit investments to support optimisation and diversification of Institutional Retirement’s portfolio and to support new business volumes
   
• Supporting the Portfolio Management of the traded and private credit portfolio, including Creation and maintenance of key risk metrics and risk appetites and management of the portfolio in line with appetites and applicable risk limits
   
• Overseeing of asset managers’ mandate and performance for Institutional Retirement in this asset class
   
• Continuous development and improvement of the investment framework for traded and private credit and maximisation of risk-adjusted return under the framework
   
• Overseeing transaction executions, representing Institutional Retirement with third parties/Asset Management as appropriate and working with all relevant parties (including ALM, Investment Strategy, Investment Operations) to ensure appropriate execution, implementation and ongoing monitoring
   
• Drafting and present governance papers; engage with key stakeholder across the L&G group in order to support for effective credit portfolio management and credit portfolio optimisation
   
• Supporting the development of good relationship with other relevant teams and working practice in Investments. Oversee and collaborate with relevant Asset Management team(s) for overall delivery to ensure L&G benefits from the best available expertise to assess and take advantage of new opportunities and manage existing assets
   
• Consumer Duty accountabilities  Operate at all times within the Mandates and Risk Limits set by the Business Divisions to ensure appropriate control for the Group and ensure that the principles of Conduct Risk and Consumer Duty are embedded in day-to-day operations to deliver good customer outcomes at all times, whilst ensuring that all business processes and internal controls within your role are designed and performed in a way that delivers good customer outcomes and demonstrates effective management of Conduct Risk

Who we're looking for:

• Undergraduate degree in quantitative subject such as Math, Physics, Finance, Computer Science etc or a degree in Accounting or Management (or experience in a similar role) essential  Desirable: CFA Level II or III.
• Deep understanding of Investment Grade Credit, essential
• Familiar with portfolio analytics & portfolio management concepts, essential
• Knowledge of insurance balance sheet mechanics, essential
• Familiar with portfolio construction and relative value assessment, essential
• Relevant experience in first or second line managing/overseeing investment grade credit investments at an asset owner (e.g. insurance) or asset manager

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 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

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.