Communications Executive - Finance

  • Full-time
  • Permanent/Regular or Fixed Term Contract/Temporary: Fixed Term Contract (UK and ROW) / Temporary (US)
  • L&G Business Unit: Legal & General Group Functions
  • L&G sub Business Unit: GROUP HEAD OFFICE BAU
  • Primary Location: London, One Coleman Street
  • Job Family: Marketing

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 now looking for a Finance Communications Executive to join our Group Finance team. This is an exciting opportunity to support strategic communications and engagement activity across Finance, playing an important role in our transformation journey and contributing to a culture where colleagues feel connected, informed and empowered.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Supporting the delivery of communication and engagement strategies by creating content, developing plans and gathering insight
  • Assisting with communications that engage colleagues in L&G’s Finance strategy and help build trust in the leadership team
  • Supporting the development and delivery of change communications for Finance Transformation by drafting clear, consistent messaging
  • Creating content and supporting digital channel management for both transformation activity and BAU communications
  • Planning and delivering virtual and in‑person events, including preparing agendas, speaker notes, presentations and attendee materials
  • Working collaboratively with Employee Communications colleagues to strengthen planning, measurement, evaluation and information sharing
  • Coordinating internal communications activity by maintaining content calendars, distribution lists, reporting and measurement tracking
  • Designing communication assets that meet regulatory expectations, ensuring clarity, fairness and alignment with Consumer Duty principles

Qualifications

Who we’re looking for:

  • Understanding of the role employee communications plays within Corporate Affairs and wider business strategy
  • Awareness of communications techniques including content development, channel management and audience insight
  • Ability to apply planning and measurement approaches used in communications teams
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt tone and style for different audiences
  • Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise, manage multiple deadlines and maintain attention to detail
  • Experience creating content for a range of channels (e.g. emails, intranet, newsletters, MS Teams, multimedia)
  • Experience in employee or internal communications, ideally within a complex or regulated organisation
  • Confidence building relationships with stakeholders and working collaboratively across teams

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. 

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