IT Finance Analyst

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 Comms 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.

The technology business management team are looking to hire a lead financial data analyst due to the growth of the newly formed centralised function, which delivers increased financial transparency to executives, IT and finance owners by communicating the cost, quality and value of IT services through data.

This role will see you own the sourcing, importing, modelling and reporting on data from multiple sources, providing cost transparency and insights to the wider business areas which involved working in collaboration with IT and finance professionals at all levels across the organisation.

• Taking the lead in the delivery of cost transparency and data insights of technology cost and services by sourcing and analysing complex data and turning this into actionable insights for cost and performance optimisation
• Working closely with IT, finance and business stakeholders to gather insights and using your subject matter expertise, translate business requirements into operational and financial models, dashboards and management reports using the Apptio tool to inform business decisions and cost optimisation
• Collating information from multiple systems to improve in consistency and automation
• Taking the lead on daily support activities by acting as a point of contact and SME to senior business stakeholders and working with the Apptio Platform Owner to provide monthly data loading and validation.
• Delivering insight on IT Total Cost of Ownership, financial metrics, and cost transparency initiatives.
• Providing training of the Apptio tool to stakeholder where needed to increase knowledge and awareness.

• Experience of the Apptio platform an advantage but not essential.
• Development experience using Excel and or Power BI modelling and data transformation.
• Experience of IT services and financial management processes and best practices in areas such as budgeting and cost allocations and Awareness of IT infrastructure domains including data centres, network/ communications, server utilisation, virtual environments, storage, and application development.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle approaches that are relevant to the controlled updating and management of the tool
• Experience of using backlog management tools such as Jira or TFS desirable
• Good understanding of ITIL or Service Management and governance policies and procedures.
• Knowledge and application of relational database concepts.
• Strong to expert level skills and experience in formulaic logic such as MS Excel if statements, vlookup, pivot tables, macros, etc.
• Previous experience working with scripting, report building, etc, advantageous and  Strong analytical skills for financial modelling and analysis.
• Broad experience in the financial services industry in IT or Finance

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

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