finance analyst - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Legal & General

Description

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.

Your role at glance

Manage a cash management team responsible for processing, reconciling, and accounting for client and corporate money. Ensuring compliance with FCA regulated CASS rules and reporting.

• Responsible for the oversight of multiple bank accounts, including client money CASS regulated accounts.
• Manage a team accountable for large value payment processes, requiring timeliness and a strong attention to detail.
• To support the management of preparing and authorising daily client money funding calculations, client money and bank account reconciliations and associated procedures to ensure that customers' money is protected both before investment into their chosen product and when returned to them
• To ensure compliance with CASS and FCA regulations, L&G policies and procedures.
• To provide cover for other Client Money Managers in their absence.

What you'll be doing

• You will manage an element of the Finance Operations function, specifically the cash management team, whilst supporting and providing cover for money in and money out client money managers and processes.
• You will manage the preparation of the reporting and MI required for internal and external regulatory reporting, audit and compliance.
• You will understand the FCA and CASS rules governing client money treatment, calculations, and reconciliations, ensure training is provided to the team to maintain knowledge and to ensure compliance, and authorise client money calculations, reconciliations and cash transfers.
• You will work with the Finance Operations Project Team to ensure the design and introduction of business changes are implemented in line with the change process.
• You will build and maintain excellent working relationships and communications with other parts of the business to ensure delivery of effective processes and procedures. This will include, but is not limited to: CASS Oversight, Group Finance, other Retail Operational teams and Group Treasury.
• You will build and maintain strong working relationships with multiple banks, and other payment service providers.
• You will ensure decisions made and activity undertaken considers the fair treatment of customers in line with L&G's Customer Experience and Treating Customers Fairly Policy (TCF).
• You will manage the team in accordance with the Company's policies and procedures, including the Partnership Agreement, so that the team's business objectives are achieved consistently.

• FCA Overseer role for managing client money – job holder will be required to undertake the Overseer Scheme and gain within 2 years.
• Knowledge of the end-to-end operational processes in job holders' area of expertise, and the impacts on the general ledger and client money reconciliation.
• Knowledge of operational and banking systems, functions and processes and their impacts on client accounts.
• Understanding of L&Gs products and funds and the related operational processes.
• Basic understanding of accounting principles and terminology where they are relevant to the Finance Operations environment.
• Understands the business environment and standards/rules and can understand impacts for an area of the business.
• Understands whether a set of data is correct and accurate and can make judgements about outcomes, standards, and disclosure.
• Takes ownership for and is the principle contact for the resolution of operational issues.
• Able to carry out activities with a high degree of independence and accuracy and understands how own work fits into the wider picture.
• Takes wider responsibility, for a process or project and understands the fine detail associated with the process and or change.
• Makes judgments to ensure that the process is functioning correctly.
• Self-sufficient in relevant technical aspects of the Finance Operations functions.
• Ability to line manage, support, and develop a team of Finance Analysts to meet the team's and the individual's objectives.
• Can apply company policy, procedures, and standards, and make recommendations to managers to develop and implement improvements to the performance of the business.
• Available to work flexible hours on a pre-arranged basis to meet the needs and deadlines of the team.

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.