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The role is based within the Property Fund Accounting team, who provide a vital service to LGIM Real Assets (and its internal and external customers) to ensure the integrity of business through process and controls, but also facilitate the changing landscape within the sector.

The job holder will have principally manage the property datafeed delivery, mainly for the Annuity client, as well as an element of management accounting deliverables for a range of property accounting activities. The role will require strong technical knowledge and an ability to apply this knowledge on a practical basis.

The role requires liaison with members of the senior management team, managing agents, asset management and external advisors. As part of this role, the fund accounting data analyst will also be required to provide support to the wider department

What you'll be doing

• Monitor the data integrity and adopt the operational framework to ensure data consistency, completeness and integrity. Where not the case, raise query with primary source or system provider to resolve the acquisition of high-quality data.
• Understand the data control processes, standards and governance throughout the system internally (with the help with the relevant system owners) and externally with third party providers.
• Run semi and fully automated processes to refresh core operational data, ensuring timeliness and consistency.
• Identify areas of data requiring further conditioning then propose rules to improve or eradicate data issues, overseeing
• Obtain and analyse data received from Phoenix system; improving and maintaining controls within the datafeed process.
• Organise and lead regular datafeed meeting with relevant various teams to discuss and resolve discrepancies, including liaising with System Analyst from RADS team to investigate data discrepancies
• Liaise with managing agents to obtain relevant tenancy reports and prepare reconciliation of tenancy schedules to Datafeed.Prepare and communicate new acquisitions datafeed lines to various relevant parties; ensuring new lines are complete and accurate
• Maintaining datafeed working file; review and prepare overrides as appropriate, and reconcile quarterly property valuations
• Take ownership of the queries raised by the Portfolio Managers and assist in their resolution, this could involve tracking issues with trusted third parties (e.g. Managing Agents or raise a tweak in the quality assurance filters).
• Inform stakeholders of failures / remediation steps and timings to deliver critical data fixes.

What we're looking for

• IT & Data Skills - Highly IT literate with demonstrable track record in using excel to an advanced level (Pivot / Advanced formula to aid data quality).
• Eye-for-detail – Ability to highlight missing files, gaps in data and eventually, incorrect data (if any).
• Communication Skills – ability to liaise with multiple stakeholders of varying levels to request and chase for data required in regular and ad-hoc reporting.
• Experience of previous data operations or real estate data role would be advantageous.
• A strong learner with the ability to learn new tools as LGIM evolves from a data point of view.Ability to reconciling multiple datasets to create a master using tools to automate.Understanding of data analysis, business intelligence and visualisation tools will be a bonus.

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

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.

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.