Junior Data Protection 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.

Join our dynamic Group HR Governance team as a Junior Data Protection Analyst. This role is pivotal in ensuring our data protection compliance, focusing on responding to individual rights requests and supporting the data protection team with various administrative tasks. If you have a keen eye for detail and a passion for data protection, we want to hear from you.

What you’ll be doing:

• Responding to individual rights requests, such as Subject Access Requests, within statutory timeframes
• Liaising with requestors and working with internal and external stakeholders to identify relevant data
• Making necessary redactions and preparing formal responses to requests
• Supporting the data protection team in investigating, managing, and reporting on breaches and information requests
• Providing management information and analysing data for key trends on data protection
• Maintaining internal hub pages and updating guidance
• Assisting in the delivery of the Data Champions training plan and other communications
• Providing general administration services for the data protection team, including mailbox management and management support

Who we’re looking for:

• Excellent verbal and written English skills
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Competency in Microsoft Office
• Familiarity with Power BI (helpful but not essential)
• Experience in administrative support roles or data/risk analyst roles
• Experience in responding to data subject access requests is beneficial but not essential
• Ability to manage your own time and produce high-quality work

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   

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.