Lead Business Analyst - Risk Data - 6 month FTC

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.

Legal and General Group’s Risk function are looking to hire a Lead Business Analyst specialising in risk data on an initial 6-month contract. The role will sit within Group Risk Data and Reporting team and work closely with the Risk and Privacy teams with the goal of understanding the wider business needs in regard to MI, reporting and data requests.

You will work closely with internal stakeholders to understand common data sources teams require access to and what information they are using to build their reports, what data they require for their data and analytics functions and what data strategy could look like in the context of both non-financial and financial risk for the purpose of improving the data service.

What you’ll be doing

• Understanding the data systems and structures within the business and contributing towards improvements to these systems where possible, linking the understanding of source data to value-adding analytics and reporting.
• Working in partnership with internal risk teams to collate, validate and interpret financial and non-financial risk data from various sources, such as internal models, enterprise risk management platform(s), market data, regulatory reports, tertiary internal systems, and external vendors.
• Owning the documentation and understanding the business demand across requirement gathering workstreams alongside our multi-disciplinary risk teams in Financial and Non-Financial Risk, to document their data and reporting processes.
• Assisting the Head of Data Risk and Group Risk Reporting in building the risk data strategy across a 5 year term with a roadmap that includes iterating from bronze to silver and gold milestones.
• Developing and maintaining productive relationships with all stakeholders; analysing the requirements to find commonality, themes and providing advice and guidance back to teams to improve their knowledge and understanding.
• Adhering to governance and best practice guidelines to ensure data, procedures, and user guides are documented and remain up to date.
• Ensuring digital customer journeys are constructed with end-customers in mind to help them be easily accessible, navigated and highlights key information to support their understanding and decision making.

What we’re looking for

• Experience in dealing with high volumes of data with excellent attention to detail and reconciliation.
• Demonstrated expert in working with financials and model data or data within a risk function.
• Understanding of data governance practices including critical/key data element identification, lineage mapping.
• Performing requirements gathering to create artefacts that clearly articulate current state data and reporting processes.
• Working in an Agile fashion to quickly work through multiple disparate Epics and bring them together in retrospectives.
• Gathering requirements from stakeholders across internal teams, managing expectations and guiding on approach.
• Working with a variety of datasets across different domains.
• Experience across the 3LOD would be ideal but not essential.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Experience with SQL or Python beneficial but not essential.
• Previous experience in finance is essential.

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.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

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We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

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