Corporate Finance Associate, Housing - London, United Kingdom - LGC - INVESTMENTS

Description

Your role at a glance

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to join our Legal and General Capital Division as a Corporate Finance Associate (Housing).

In Legal and General Capital, the Housing portfolio is diverse, from traditional house building to modular housing. The portfolio covers affordable housing, and across tenures from Build to Sell to Build to Rent.

These asset classes support L&G's aim to invest in UK economic growth, manufacture and deliver assets to the rest of the L&G Group and support the Group's international growth ambitions.

You could play a key role within the team as you you work with a large portfolio that includes international real estate deals.

If you are a commercial finance specialist, with deals advisory, valuations, and financial due diligence experience then this is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most exciting, impactful, and social relevant divisions across the Group.

What you'll be doing

• Financial business partnering, including performance monitoring, and reporting, and forecasting and support for any financial themes emerging
• Contributing to overall M&A process for new acquisitions and disposals within the portfolio
• Supporting the financial due diligence process for new investments, including shaping the assignment scope, managing work streams and outputs of due diligence providers, and

- interpreting and communicating findings to senior LGC stakeholders

• Producing forecasts and scenario planning to assist central planning, commercial insight, and options analysis, with focus on profit generation, liquidity strategy, market opportunity and sector concentrations
• Liaising with key stakeholders in LGC's divisional planning process to establish sectorlevel strategic priorities. This will include interactions with LGC's senior management team, sector leads, investment leads and operating entity leadership
• Supporting the investment team and operating entities with key financial events (including refinancing events, asset disposals, etc.)

What we're looking for

• Relevant accounting/ financial qualification required, preferably ACA/ACCA
• You'll be a commercial finance specialist, with deals advisory, valuations, and financial due diligence experience.
• Demonstrable commercial acumen and interest in alternative asset investment
• A solid financial analysis grounding to assist senior finance and investment staff in assessing and reporting the division's performance and mediumterm value creation plans with reference to its liquidity requirements and PBT generation
• PQE with experience in real estate and infrastructure sectors (preferable but not essential)
• Experience of working to tight reporting deadlines, ideally in large corporate teams

Benefits:

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, 27 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.

About L&G
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?

About the business area
Humanity is facing fundamental challenges, with the future of our planet hanging in the balance.

As the principal investment arm of the Legal & General Group, our aim at
Legal & General Capital is to generate long-term shareholder value, while helping build a better society.

We seek opportun