Senior Planning and Performance Manager

Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, aiming to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone and create value for our shareholders.

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.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senor Planning and Performance Manager to join us on a 6 month fixed-term contract, in either London or Hove!

You’ll play a key role in overseeing the portfolio of Group Technology’s projects and initiatives, collaborating with colleagues and delivery teams to ensure smooth delivery to plan and budget, whilst also driving forward planning to deliver future year plans.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading on the delivery roadmap to improve the transparency and management of technology costs, including continuing to develop capability on the Apptio financial management tool. Continuing to develop a revised cost model for the Group based on a new definition of services and consumption
• Working with the business partnering team to support and enhance cost transparency with business divisions and building on work with the Technology Business Management Office, continuing to build capability and reporting on their Apptio platform to deliver consumption-based charging and cost visibility to cost centre owners and the wider enterprise
• Leading on the management of activities to drive cost reduction to meet targets, working collaboratively with the Leadership team to achieve objectives. Continuously identifying cost reduction opportunities, tactical or strategic, and driving plans for implementation to maximise the value of technology spend
• Leading the annual financial planning process for the function, partnering with the Head of Group Technology Transformation on the creation of an annual business plan and multi-year investment view in-line with business strategy. Driving greater ownership of costs within the function to improve the quality of forecasting and any corrective action that needs to be taken for the budget to deliver successfully
• Working with our Group Technology finance business partnering team and Group Finance colleagues as needed to ensure that financial processes are controlled, forecasts are accurate, and in-year and future-year planning is well managed to meet Group Technology, Group Finance and wider enterprise needs
• Working closely with the Interim COO, Project Managers, the Group PMO, Finance teams and business leads to drive a single view and management of change activity and manage the funding priority process. Challenging and tracking the value of deliveries and driving the mitigation of risk across the change portfolio
• Partnering with Group Finance to provide quality and timely reporting to the Leadership Team for monthly financial governance. Providing quality reporting and insights to the Leadership Team on cost transparency and opportunities
• Leading the team that will work closely with the Group Finance Technology Business Management Office (TBMO) to manage the Apptio financial management and planning tool, ensuring this is supported, that feeds are successfully imported and that dashboards and reports are produced and maintained to support stakeholder insight

Who we're looking for:

• You’ll be well versed in working with organisations to drive out cost transparency, helping to create a culture of continuous focus cost understanding
• Strong commercial skills and experience of working with procurement and sourcing to realise cost transparency targets
• Experience of cost transparency within an IT environment, and detailed knowledge of IT cost base by tower would be a huge plus
• Implementing/working with Finance tooling such as Apptio would also be great
• Experience in creating cost models to reflect total cost of ownership

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 (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 
• 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.