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Legal and General’s group function has a new opportunity for a data analyst to join a newly formed, centralised team which provides data services to several our departments including finance, which this role would be focused upon.

You will be responsible for building relationships with the Finance team and scoping out their requirements to better define the data needs and structure required, before owning the ETL processes, reporting and identifying and executing improvements to processes and systems.

What you'll be doing

• Building an understanding of the data systems and structures within the business while contributing towards improvements to these systems where possible, linking an understanding of source data to value-adding analytics and reporting.
• Ensuring all outputs are visualised to a high standard through use of best practice.
• Advocating for data visualisation best practice, sharing knowledge and guidance with others.
• Continuously developing processes so that deliverables are created in the most efficient way to improve performance, using automation and appropriate tooling choices
• Be accountable for the delivery of ad hoc analytics and visualisations for internal customers; understanding the business need and delivering the outcome in a flexible and insightful manner through the use of code to manipulate data (e.g. SQL) and visualisation tools to display outputs clearly (e.g. Tableau/PowerBI)
• Taking responsibility for the timely delivery of regular reports to the business; always aiming for automation and standardisation to support business requirements

What we're looking for

• Experience in dealing with high volumes of data with excellent attention to detail and reconciliation
• Experience of creating dashboards/data visualisations with dashboarding software such as Tableau or PowerBI
• Performing data manipulation and transformation to create and maintain datasets. Creation of structured datasets that facilitate efficient dashboard creation
• Producing and automating regular reporting to a wide range of stakeholders through the use of analytical tools
• Gathering requirements from stakeholders across internal teams, managing expectations and guiding on approach
• Working with a variety of datasets across different domains
• Experience with dashboarding tools such as Power BI and Tableau
• Experience with SQL for data manipulation
• Experience with Alteryx beneficial but not essential
• Experience with Python & R beneficial but not essential
• Previous experience in finance useful

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, 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.

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

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes. It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.

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 James Sandbrook at [email protected] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-sandbrook-04119a115/).

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.