Senior Finance Analyst - Expenses

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 global asset management business provides our clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, working internationally across public and private markets. 

Who we are 

We are one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor across public and private markets.

Asset Management is a critical driver of our Group strategy. The business aims to work synergistically with our Institutional Retirement and Retail divisions to benefit our clients and customers, and deliver enhanced shareholder returns.  

Our investment philosophy and processes are focused on creating value over the long term. We believe that incorporating financially material sustainability criteria, when relevant to our clients, can create value and drive positive change. 

We’re recruiting for a Senior Finance Analyst - Expenses to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary. 

We’re looking for a Senior Finance Analyst to join our busy Finance team in Cardiff. In this role, you’ll contribute to the smooth running of our finance operations, partner with colleagues across the business, and play a key part in supporting accurate, insightful reporting. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working collaboratively, solving problems, and making a meaningful impact in a dynamic environment.

What you’ll be doing:

• Preparing and posting expense accruals and journals and collaborating with colleagues to ensure timely and accurate completion
• Reviewing and improving reporting processes and outputs to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
• Monitoring and updating headcount data to maintain accurate cost centre and HR system structures
• Managing timely, accurate and informative management reporting relating to headcount and employee costs, including providing insights on trends
• Making payments for subsidiaries, preparing associated journals and maintaining payment logs
• Providing detailed expense analysis and offering insight into monthly variances
• Responding to queries from stakeholders across the organisation and ensuring information is delivered to required specifications
• Maintaining and updating procedure manuals to ensure processes remain current and well‑documented

Who we’re looking for:

• AAT qualification or progress towards a professional accounting qualification
• Strong understanding of accounting processes and principles
• Confident Excel and general IT skills
• Experience working with accounting systems (desirable)
• Clear and effective communication skills, including the ability to produce high‑quality written reports
• A collaborative team player who supports shared goals
• A delivery‑focused approach with strong attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines
• Experience within a UK financial services environment (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
• 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
• 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, 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.