Senior Compliance Analyst – 12 Month FTC

Legal & General is one of Europe’s largest asset managers, providing clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, across public and private markets. As a global investor, we are present where our clients most need us – from Hong Kong and Singapore, to Chicago and major European financial hubs.

Created by combining our investment management (LGIM) and asset origination (LGC) capabilities, our Asset Management division works with our Institutional Retirement and Retail divisions to benefit our clients and customers – which include individual savers, pension scheme members and global institutions – and deliver enhanced shareholder returns.

Joining us means becoming part of a market-leading team, with capabilities across the full spectrum of asset classes, with an enduring commitment to responsible investment and creating long-term, sustainable value for our clients and partners.

We’re recruiting for a Senior Compliance Analyst to join our Asset Management Division on a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract.

In this role you will support our regulated entities by contributing to the overall delivery of Conduct Advisory activity – which will include carrying out advisory functions, generating management information and providing compliance advisory support to allocated areas of the business.

This role would be ideal for someone with Regulatory Compliance experience in the Asset Management industry.

This is a hybrid working opportunity which means you can split your working week between our Central London Offices and your home.

What you'll be doing:

• Providing compliance advisory support to the business in respect of one or more asset classes or business areas, including advising on the application of applicable regulatory rules including global compliance policies & procedures. 
• Staying up to date on the latest compliance laws and regulation in order to support business stakeholders in understanding the direct and indirect impacts of any legal or regulatory changes.
• Ensuring that your activity is focused in order to best deliver risk-based conduct risk and compliance value add activities, whilst remaining curious and proactively identifying additional areas of activity that will bring further business benefit. 
• Assisting in building and managing key relationships with internal and external customers to ensure a deep understanding of Conduct Advisory requirements/activities and the requirement for adherence to policies and procedures.
• Assisting in the planning and delivery of compliance advice for allocated business area/compliance activities, including creating internal communication materials to support business awareness and understanding.
• Working with the Head of Asset Class Oversight to ensure that timely, relevant and accurate conduct risk metrics/MI is available for allocated asset classes.
• Personally, maintaining a detailed knowledge of Group policies and compliance & conduct risk requirements. As well as keeping abreast of external changes and developments more broadly.
• Playing an active part in the wider Global Compliance team, supporting colleagues as required, in order to achieve the right outcomes for the Asset Management Division.

Who we're looking for:

• Must have previous Compliance advisory experience from an asset management background
• Previous exposure to direct investment management across asset classes and a good understanding of the end-to-end investment process. 
• A good understanding of UK/EU regulation and of compliance and conduct risk within an investment management environment. Including the ability to swiftly analyse emerging regulation in order to identify impacts to L&G.
• Strong communication skills, both in terms of verbal and written communication. This will include the ability to actively engage with stakeholders and deliver technical information concerning conduct risk topics in a clear and concise manner.
• Good presentation skills including the ability to articulate and convey complex concepts and ideas to a varied audience in a clear and compelling manner.
• Ability to nurture and promote effective working relationships with stakeholders by openly collaborating with an outward facing approach. 
• Ability to remain independent and to demonstrate that independence whilst also providing commercial, practical and value-add solutions for the business that influence outcomes positively for all stakeholders.
• Delivery focused outlook, possessing high levels of resilience and determination and be able to meet challenging deadlines and deal with conflicting priorities in an evolving and dynamic environment.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Relevant experience in a similar role is expected and Professional qualifications related to investments/asset management are also highly desirable.

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  
• Private medical insurance
• 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
• 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.