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You will play a critical role in driving the financial outcomes for the Specialist Commercial Real Estate portfolio

The Specialist Commercial Real Estate portfolio comprises over £1bn in AUM across multiple development and income yielding projects. This includes investments in city centre regeneration projects, university-led science and technology hubs, retail and other commercial property assets. The role will involve providing active support to the investment teams and the wider L&G organisation in delivering controlled, timely and high-quality reporting of the assets results and their operations.

What you'll be doing

• Provide active support to investment teams, finance colleagues and the wider L&G organisation in delivering controlled, timely and high-quality reporting asset results and their operations.
• Actively engage with stakeholders to ensure the best outcome for Legal and General Capital against our key performance metrics
• Analyse and evaluate investment models and review reported information to produce deliverables that feed into the monthly reporting to the LGC Performance Committee and the bi-annual valuation process including preparing reports for LGC’s Asset Valuation committee.
• Support the Group’s sustainability and ESG agenda and reporting metrics across the portfolio.
• Deal with operational issues, reporting challenges, accounting treatments and review of financial performance and position.
• Play an important role in shaping the financial outcomes that form LGC’s 5-year plan across the SCRE portfolio. This drives the underlying business strategies, financial targets and the allocation of capital.
• Support the central LGC Finance team in collating the financial plan for the wider division to forecast operating profit, PBT, cash utilisation and other financial and non-financial metrics.
• Support investment teams with M&A transactions and significant financial events such as restructurings and refinancing, supporting investment appraisals and valuations of potential projects
• Feed into wider multi-disciplinary teams and support the preparation and presentation of Investment Committee approval papers focused on investment strategies and identification of business drivers for profitability and capital allocation
• Engage with senior stakeholders in LGC as well as various stakeholders across the division and wider Group including Risk, Actuarial, Tax and Reporting teams
• Support the team’s interaction with external stakeholders such as 3rd party valuers, investee companies, M&A advisors, and consultants

What we're looking for

• Relevant accounting/ financial qualification required, preferably ACA/ACCA
• Demonstrable commercial acumen and interest in alternative asset investment
• Finance background and skills
• Strong excel and data presentation skills
• A solid financial analysis grounding to assist senior finance and investment staff in assessing and reporting the division’s performance and medium-term value creation plans with reference to its liquidity requirements and PBT generation
• Minimum 1-2 years’ 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 opportunities to invest in sectors most in need of investment and innovation, such as residential housing, large-scale urban regeneration and future cities. We’re backing investment in infrastructure and clean energy, and in start-up businesses to drive innovation and growth across the UK. We’re building partnerships between the public sector and institutional investors to accelerate housing delivery, create jobs, support local businesses and transform communities. This helps to create new asset classes for Legal & General’s varied investment requirements, our partners and the wider marketplace.

Our commitments to you

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.

How to find out more

If this opportunity excites you but you’re not sure you meet all the requirements, or you’d like to know a bit more,please contact Craig Cooper [email protected]

If you’d like to be considered for this role, please submit your application through our careers website as we’re not accepting email applications.