Product Accounting & Box Manager

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.

Your role at a glance

Lead, motivate and develop a team responsible for the product ledgers and box management deliverables, and provide strong engagement with divisional business and finance teams. Ensure adherence to a robust control framework and drive continuous improvement across all activities.

What you'll be doing

• To manage the team in accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures, including the Partnership Agreement, so that the team’s business objectives are achieved consistently.
• Work collaboratively with business partners/key stakeholders to strengthen business partnering links to ensure business decisions can be promptly and effectively deployed within the team. Attendance at related working groups providing feedback on output and issues raised.
• Overseeing BAU deliverables, task scheduling and service demands, ensuring the work the team completes is of the highest standard with accuracy and attention to detail a key driver. Do this by reviewing and signing-off key deliverables and managing individual capability so that the team work effectively and efficiently, with prompt resolution of issues. 
• Ensure a strong control framework is in place for the team, supported by regularly reviewed and updated controls and process documentation ensuring data is processed in accordance with documented procedures and controls, and key person dependencies are identified and managed.  
• Lead the identification of system and process change opportunities within Product Accounting & Box.  Deliver project and continuous improvement driven change initiatives impacting systems and processes into production while ensuring controls and service levels are maintained.
• Deliver change projects impacting the team's systems or processes to ensure that financial controls and procedures remain robust. This will include oversight of planning, impact assessment, resource estimates, test script design, testing and implementation.  
• Ensure the delivery and review of financial reconciliations, including the investigation of outstanding items is completed to the agreed timetable. Ensure the reasons for reconciling items are clearly and concisely explained so that business divisions understand the financial risks associated with their reconciliations.  Responsible for driving forward the clearance of historical items through relationship management with key stakeholders.
• Ensure that the appropriate processes and systems are in place to provide support to the business divisions so that customers are treated fairly in line with Legal & General’s Customer Experience and TCF policy.

• Qualified accountant.
• Strong understanding of accounting processes and principles
• Understanding of and ability to interpret and apply L&G Group Policy and Procedures, as well as L&G’s risk management philosophy and ability to support business in delivery and monitoring of the risk control environment.
• Dynamic, passionate and energetic personality with ability to effectively manage workload drive change and improvement across the division 
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
• Ability to influence others and operate in a complex matrix structure.
• Ability to create and deliver clear and concise written or verbal reports.
• Using logical argument and data, challenge peers and Directors.
• Ability to demonstrate strong interpersonal skills to interact with all levels of business and to develop and maintain strong relationships with finance and non-finance individuals
• Advanced knowledge in the use of spreadsheets, databases and analysis tools.
• Ability to design, develop and maintain financial models

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave. 

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings. 

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?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

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.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.