Senior Analyst - 12-Month FTC

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. 

Please note this is a 12-month fixed-term contract role.

Job Description

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Analyst to join our Finance Reporting & Analytics team. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver high-quality reporting, analytics and data visualisation solutions that support informed decision-making across Finance and the wider business.

You’ll work with modern platforms including Tableau and Power BI, while exploring how AI-enabled tools such as Microsoft Copilot can improve reporting, automate processes and generate deeper insights. You’ll join a collaborative team where your technical expertise, curiosity and ideas will be valued.

What you’ll be doing:

• Designing, developing and maintaining Tableau dashboards and strategic reporting solutions
• Enhancing and optimising reporting across Finance and the wider business
• Developing and maintaining Power BI reports and visualisations where required
• Partnering with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into effective analytical solutions
• Analysing large and complex datasets to produce clear, actionable insights
• Supporting data quality, reporting governance, certification and access-control processes
• Identifying opportunities to automate manual reporting and improve efficiency
• Using AI-enabled tools and emerging technologies to enhance reporting, insight generation and ways of working

Who we’re looking for:

• Strong hands-on experience of developing dashboards and reporting solutions in Tableau
• Good SQL skills and experience working with large or complex datasets
• Experience of creating reports and visualisations using Power BI
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and business-requirements gathering capabilities
• Effective communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience of using or exploring AI-enabled tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Power BI Copilot, Tableau Pulse or generative AI solutions
• An understanding of reporting governance, data quality and visualisation best practice
• Experience within financial services, asset management or a Finance function, or with automation tools such as Power Automate, Alteryx or Python

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 many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience

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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 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.