Senior Finance Analyst - Central Services - 18-Month FTC

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. 

Please note this is an 18-month fixed-term contract role.

Join Legal & General’s Group Finance team and help deliver high-quality financial reporting for our Bermudan and US reinsurance entities. This is an opportunity to take ownership of important statutory and regulatory reporting activities, strengthen financial controls and contribute to automation and finance transformation projects.

You’ll work collaboratively across Finance, Actuarial, Investments, Tax and international teams, gaining broad exposure while helping to simplify processes and improve how financial information is produced and understood

What you’ll be doing:

• Delivering monthly, quarterly and annual statutory and regulatory reporting for our reinsurance entities
• Taking ownership of reporting activities, including journals, financial statements, reconciliations and supporting analysis
• Investigating unexpected results and tracing differences through source data, system interfaces, ledger postings and reporting mappings
• Preparing and reconciling investment accounting outputs, including analysing movements and coordinating the resolution of issues
• Operating and evidencing key financial reporting and balance-sheet controls
• Applying your IFRS knowledge, including IFRS 17 principles, to understand and validate accounting flows
• Supporting external audits by providing clear explanations, evidence and high-quality deliverables
• Identifying opportunities to automate, simplify and strengthen reporting processes while contributing to ERP and wider finance transformation initiatives

Who we’re looking for:

• A newly qualified or part-qualified accountant with practical financial reporting experience
• A working knowledge of IFRS, financial controls, reporting requirements and financial reporting best practice
• Experience preparing journals, performing balance-sheet reconciliations and using general ledger or consolidation systems
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to investigate variances, understand data flows and resolve complex reporting issues
• Confidence managing allocated deliverables independently while prioritising effectively against demanding deadlines
• Clear and adaptable communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across teams and explain financial information effectively
• A proactive approach to process improvement, automation and finance-system change
• Experience in insurance or reinsurance reporting, IFRS 17, investment accounting or platforms such as OneStream, Clearwater and Workiva would be beneficial

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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 many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience

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 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.