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Senior Finance Analyst
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Cardiff

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Company Description

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. 

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Finance Analyst to join our Finance Central Services – Product Ledger team. In this role, you’ll play a key part in supporting our IFRS 17 financial reporting processes, ensuring accuracy, insight, and strong financial controls. You’ll collaborate with colleagues across change programmes, Product Ledger, and wider finance teams, helping us embed a culture of continuous improvement and high-quality delivery. If you enjoy working with data, solving problems, and contributing to robust financial processes, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Supporting the IFRS 17 month‑end accounting process, preparing accurate manual journals and data feeds
  • Completing and supporting IFRS 17 reconciliations and investigating differences in line with reporting deadlines
  • Working with change programmes to define requirements and implement solutions for data capture and reconciliation processes
  • Reviewing end‑to‑end processes, identifying issues and opportunities, and driving continuous improvement activities
  • Maintaining strong financial controls and ensuring compliance with group standards, statutory requirements, and risk frameworks
  • Keeping procedure notes up to date and supporting internal or external audit activity
  • Ensuring finance processes and MI support fair customer outcomes in line with company policies
  • Collaborating with colleagues across finance to deliver high‑quality reporting and operational effectiveness

Qualifications

Who we’re looking for:

  • Experience working in a finance environment and/or progress towards an accounting qualification (desirable but not essential)
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint
  • Experience working with core accounting systems, ledger postings or reconciliations (advantageous)
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to structure thinking and draw clear conclusions
  • High attention to detail and a commitment to delivering accurate work
  • Confidence working with large data sets and experience using tools such as Power Query (advantageous)
  • Curiosity and a continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to assess processes and recommend enhancements
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with a range of stakeholders

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
  • In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information

 

 

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. 

  • Permanent/Regular or Fixed Term Contract/Temporary: Permanent (UK and ROW) / Regular (US)
  • L&G Business Unit: Legal & General Group Functions
  • L&G sub Business Unit: GROUP FINANCE
  • Primary Location: Cardiff, Four Central Square
  • Job Family: Finance
  • Other facts

    Tech stack
    Finance Environment,Accounting Qualification,Microsoft Office,Excel,Word,PowerPoint,Core Accounting Systems,Ledger Postings,Reconciliations,Analytical Skills,Attention to Detail,Data Sets,Power Query,Continuous Improvement Mindset,Communication Skills,Collaboration Skills

    About LegalAndGeneral

    Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

    Our three divisions enable us to carefully invest capital over the long term in a responsible way that delivers returns to shareholders while doing good. Along with growing our pension risk transfer business, our strategy focuses on asset management as the cornerstone of our business, including by opening up private markets to more of our clients. Meanwhile, our retail business is focused on building lifelong relationships with customers as they save for retirement and protect themselves and their families.

    What unites all three parts of our business is summed up in our purpose statement which sets out what we do, why we do it, and our belief in the power of capital. It builds on what’s inspired us since our beginnings in 1836, and challenges us to do more, with greater urgency, in more places, for more people and in more ways, for the long term.

    Team size: 10,001+ employees
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    Industry: Financial Services

    What you'll do

    • The Senior Finance Analyst will support the IFRS 17 month-end accounting process and ensure accuracy in financial reporting. They will collaborate with various teams to drive continuous improvement and maintain strong financial controls.

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    What does a Senior Finance Analyst do at LegalAndGeneral?

    As a Senior Finance Analyst at LegalAndGeneral, you will: the Senior Finance Analyst will support the IFRS 17 month-end accounting process and ensure accuracy in financial reporting. They will collaborate with various teams to drive continuous improvement and maintain strong financial controls..

    Why join LegalAndGeneral as a Senior Finance Analyst?

    LegalAndGeneral is a leading Financial Services company.

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