Investment Operations Product - Senior 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. 

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 business is the UK’s longest-serving active bulk annuity provider.

Who we are 

Institutional Retirement is the only insurer to have been operating continuously in the UK market from our entrance in 1987 to the present day. Our UK retirement annuity book stands at an estimated £86.1 billion at 31 December 2023. 

Across our retail and institutional retirement businesses, we look after more than 1 million customers, around c.700,000 of whom are institutional customers who have had their retirement benefits secured with us. 

We’re recruiting for a Senior Analyst to join the Investment Operations Product Team within our Institutional Retirement business area. 

You will be responsible for developing the investment operations platform and product set offering to the business. Proactively problem-solving issues, continuously improving applications and product functionality with a strategic thinking mindset and delivering key developments to improve the product sets.

The role involves defining the product offerings for investment operations, with the main objectives to stand up and support the investment operations product sets, which help improve business functionality and drive efficiency for the investment teams.

What you'll be doing:

• Collating, interpreting and documenting business requirements, translating these into clear technical delivery specifications for product development
• Leading cross‑functional collaboration across internal stakeholders and third‑party teams, facilitating issue resolution and driving continuous product improvement within a governance framework
• Participating in and contributing to programme and project initiatives, applying strategic thinking to support the evolution of the product set
• Analysing asset and financial datasets to structure, translate and integrate data into existing product attributes and tooling
• Partnering with portfolio managers, investment teams, risk analysts and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver solutions aligned to the product development strategy
• Engaging with product teams across the organisation to enhance platform and product processes, including sharing insights and presenting improvement ideas
• Co‑ordinating and leading change delivery activity with internal L&G entities to support effective implementation
• Upholding Consumer Duty accountabilities by designing, developing and reviewing products and propositions to ensure they meet target market needs, perform as intended and deliver good customer outcomes

Who we're looking for:

• A strong understanding of IBOR/ABOR, financial asset classes (fixed income, equities, derivatives, structured finance) and associated reference and party data
• Understanding of asset valuations and curve inputs (inflation, interest rates)
• Experience in the front-to-back investment process, including the associated decision-making elements used in analysing investments and portfolio management
• Proven analytical capability, with the ability to address requirements in a structured and controlled manner
• Demonstrating deep problem‑solving experience within asset management, ideally in a Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) environment, with a strong track record of leading change initiatives
• Applying hands‑on expertise with investment data platforms, including Snowflake, and contributing to large‑scale strategic and programmatic delivery
• Communicating complex data concepts clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences, leading triage and prioritisation of change aligned to enterprise data objectives while fostering a collaborative learning culture
• Proficiency with business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Power automates

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.