Senior Guideline Coding Analyst (6 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 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. 

Are you an experienced investment compliance professional with a passion for translating complex investment guidelines into robust technology solutions? We're looking for a Senior Guideline Coding Analyst to join a high-profile strategic transformation programme, playing a key role in the migration of investment compliance monitoring onto a new Charles River platform. This is an opportunity to work across global teams, influence critical business outcomes, and help shape the future operating model of a leading asset management business.

What you’ll be doing:

• Reviewing and recoding investment compliance rules within the Charles River Investment Management System
• Analysing investment guidelines and prioritising coding activities to support programme delivery
• Logging and tracking data gaps, escalating issues where rules cannot be fully coded
• Performing validation testing to ensure coding outputs align with business and regulatory requirements
• Conducting comparisons between strategic and legacy compliance monitoring systems to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement
• Collaborating with fund managers, traders, technology teams, consultants and external vendors across global locations
• Contributing to the development and documentation of coding standards, procedures and violation management processes
• Supporting programme governance by providing updates on progress, risks, issues and deliverables

Who we’re looking for:

• Significant experience within investment management, with a strong focus on investment compliance
• Proven expertise working with Charles River and/or State Street investment management platforms
• Experience implementing and testing investment guideline rules and comparing strategic solutions with legacy environments
• Strong understanding of data structures, system integrations and how compliance monitoring platforms utilise data
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage confidently across business and technology teams
• Experience working within large-scale transformation, migration or change programmes
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities
• Knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies and tools such as JIRA and Confluence would be advantageous

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.