Risk and Resilience 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 division provides pension risk transfer (PRT) solutions for UK and US defined benefit (DB) schemes, and reinsurance solutions from our global hub in Bermuda. We work with companies, DB pension schemes and their advisors to help them secure and protect scheme members’ retirement benefits.

Joining us means you’ll support customers’ financial security in retirement; help companies to settle their pension liabilities and focus on growing their businesses; and enable investment for the long term to back our pension promises.

We’re recruiting for a Risk and Resilience Senior Analyst to join us. In this role, you will provide oversight on behalf of the Governance, Risk and Controls Team to ensure Institutional Retirement compliance with Group Policies and the consistent application of the Group Risk Framework. Specific focus will be risk management, oversight, and reporting of IT, Operational and Regulatory Change, to help optimise the management of risks and enable consistent reporting to the Institutional Retirement senior leadership teams.

What you'll be doing:

• Supporting IT, Business and Regulatory change led by the COO team and responsible for embedding appropriate and proportionate systems and controls to effectively manage the transition from project to BAU activity
• Undertaking analysis and provide consistency in documentation, reporting and information collation from various MI Data points and preparing presentations for various forums and meetings to drive actions and improvements and support decision making
• Overseeing and reporting change management risks to demonstrate 1st Line of Defence compliance with Group Policies
• Working with Institutional Retirement to review and embed control enhancements to meet regulatory and/or Group requirements
• Supporting GDPR reviews, data breaches, subject access requests, deletions and additional requests in relation to personal data
• Supporting with component testing and tracking, revalidations of business service inventories, stress testing tracking, outcome monitoring and manual workarounds
• Attending Governance meetings to review compliance and provide guidance on Group Policy requirements to operational and change teams
• Ensuring good conduct and treating customers fairly is central to decisions and actions taken

Who we're looking for:

• Regulated Industry background preference
• Risk or Governance and Data analysis experience with track record of effective execution and experience of shaping and analysing opportunities to derive conclusions.
• Track record of building effective relationships to enable execution of analysis tasks and delivery plans.

• Experience of analysing opportunities to support risk planning for delivery of large, complex initiatives and proven background in adapting to trends and openness to new ideas.

• Ensuring innovation activities and outcomes build confidence across all levels with technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail and demonstrated ability to work independently focusing on priorities, and managing a range of tasks, deadlines, requirements, and decisions
• Effective at making good decisions and delivering great outcomes in in line with COO governance and risk plans and collaborative worker who freely shares their knowledge and experience
• Good interpersonal and influencing skills, ability to engage across various internal and external businesses and support functions to develop, get buy-in and deliver approaches across the innovation area and wider COO and Institutional Retirement teams

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

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.