The world of investment is changing. Our vision at Legal & General Investment Management is to create a better, more sustainable future through responsible investing. We work in partnership with our clients around the globe to deliver positive long-term outcomes, while rising to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. To meet our clients’ complex and evolving investment needs, our investment strategies cover a broad array of asset classes and styles, including equities, bonds, property and alternatives, as well as multi-asset funds. We’re focused on continuously innovating our investment products, maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes, and striving to build a more responsible and sustainable future.

LGIM’s Global Analytics team is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining a firm wide strategic source for instrument, portfolio and client level analytics. This involves evaluation, selection of off-the-shelf analytics service provider(s), methodologies and utilizing internally built solutions that are able to support LGIM’s complex investment analytics needs. The team is servicing Investment Desks across LGIM, Second line (incl. Investment Risk and Compliance), as well as Reporting functions. The aim of this role is to bring investment analytics expertise to the team. It requires experience and understanding of our current analytics capabilities and solutions; how they are used by various business functions. The person in this role must have the ability to understand and challenge existing methodologies and practices; needs to be instrumental in defining a new suite of investment risk analytics solutions by utilising internal and external solutions. 

What you'll be doing 

• Actively contributing to the drive towards a firm wide solution to the source, standardising and storing LGIM client and portfolio transaction and holdings data, with the aim of building client account / portfolio views. Working closely with the CDO and Investments teams to review current data sets, identifying gaps and best data sources to fill in those. Analysing and defining the data needs and standards of client and portfolio level performance, risk, portfolio management and reporting functions and processes.
• Being accountable for the timely production of analytics; Partner with third party vendor to maintain full coverage and accuracy across all asset classes and desks;
• Conducting detailed analysis on risk and pricing methodologies and on their use cases; documenting them with the aim to support the decision on and build out of global analytics capabilities.
• Contributing to the QA checks framework for instrument and portfolio level analytics.
• Working closely with the PMO and Change Delivery teams in identifying / designing processes and technology/systems enhancements, improving scalability and efficiency across the firm. Promoting and facilitating collaboration and consistency in processes and approach to analytics across teams.
• Being instrumental in engaging with other areas such as Investments, Risk, IT, Distribution and Data, developing robust and scalable end-to-end solutions.
• Keeping well informed on new product launches, new service offerings and changes to client / consultant requirements, anticipating impact on the Analytics team, being able to proactively respond.
• Staying well informed about markets, investments, methodologies and LGIM’s products, initiatives and investor requirements. 

• Proven experience: analytical or quantitative function, investment risk management or equivalent.
• Knowledge of VaR, risk sensitivities, scenarios and risk limits.
• Quantitative Degree.
• Knowledge and experience across a range of markets and products (in particular credit/fixed income and equity)
• Understanding of derivatives including pricing and risk modelling.
• Tactical programming (SQL, Python).
• Previous experience of the Axioma Risk and Bloomberg Port+ products advantageous.

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, at least 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave. 

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings. 

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.