Senior Investment 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 business is the UK’s longest-serving active bulk annuity provider.

Who we are 

Institutional Retirement is the only insurer to have been operating continuously in the UK market from our entrance in 1987 to the present day. Our UK retirement annuity book stands at an estimated £86.1 billion at 31 December 2023. 

Across our retail and institutional retirement businesses, we look after more than 1 million customers, around c.700,000 of whom are institutional customers who have had their retirement benefits secured with us. 

Join our Institutional Retirement Investment team as a Senior Analyst within Market Solutions. In this role, you’ll play a key part in shaping investment strategy, supporting new business activity, and helping optimise the performance of our backbook portfolio. Working collaboratively across the organisation, you’ll contribute to solutions that improve outcomes for our customers and strengthen our financial position. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive working environment.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading analysis and identifying opportunities to enhance balance sheet metrics and portfolio outcomes
• Supporting the end‑to‑end investment aspects of new business transactions, including transition management, hedging and holistic asset solutions
• Identifying opportunities to refine pricing approaches, optimise asset strategies and assess new asset classes
• Collaborating across teams to ensure tools and processes are in place to deliver financial and non‑financial objectives
• Contributing to backbook optimisation through cross‑asset trade ideas and portfolio improvements
• Advising on regulatory implications and supporting organisational responses to evolving requirements
• Developing strong relationships with colleagues in Asset Management, Treasury, Finance, Risk and related areas
• Embedding conduct‑focused practices to support positive customer outcomes and robust internal controls

Who we're looking for:

• Strong quantitative skills and ideally a numerate degree or postgraduate qualification
• Deep understanding of insurance balance sheets, capital frameworks and profit reporting
• Knowledge of derivative documentation, collateral arrangements and capital market instruments
• Strong understanding of Solvency II and its implications for investment strategy
• Experience in asset‑liability management and managing balance sheet risks
• Ability to build effective relationships with varied stakeholders, including fund managers, actuaries and risk specialists
• Strategic thinking skills, with the ability to understand long‑term market influences
• A commercially aware approach with strong judgement and analytical capability

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.