Company Description

We're the UK’s longest-serving active bulk annuity provider, and a market-leading, multi-award winning business. 

Securing pensions over the long term can be a challenge for many businesses. Our ambition at Legal & General Retirement Institutional (LGRI) is to help companies and pension scheme trustees honour their defined benefit pension promises to their employees.

We’re helping companies settle their pension liabilities so they can focus on growing their businesses, as well as helping to support their members’ financial security in retirement. And we’re investing for the long term to back our pension promises. In the last 30 years we’ve written more UK business than any other insurer, and we currently look after more than half a million pension policyholders. 

Job Description

We have a fantastic opportunity to join Legal & General as an Asset Valuation & Modelling Manager.

This role would be ideal for someone with strong experience in Asset Modelling and Data Analysis and will provide a holistic understanding of how an insurance company such as L&G works from an asset portfolio perspective.

This role will provide you with high visibility and exposure across the L&G Group and you will use your experience of asset modelling to help analyse and validate the results produced within Risk Analytics and communicate these to relevant stakeholders across the Business.

Reporting to the Head of Pricing - Valuation & Validation, this role assumes the responsibility of producing the "Analysis and Validation" Reports supporting the financial results produced by the wider Risk Analytics team. Primarily focussing on the Solvency II and Economic Capital calculations, this role will also support the other team members in producing the analysis and validation of key Risk Management and MI metrics when required.

Qualifications

• CFA/FRM or CFQ or Qualified/Nearly Qualified Actuary or Master’s Degree in Science, Finance, Math, Economics or related discipline.
• Exposure to asset pricing and modelling with an understanding of the capital impact of asset stresses on life insurance businesses.
• Exposure to Solvency II requirements, including Matching Adjustment knowledge or Basel III capital requirements.
• Solid understanding of Excel and VBA (as a minimum) but preferably with a strong understanding of data technologies such as R, Python SQL, PowerBI etc. 
• Knowledge of a wide range of asset classes including; fixed income, inflation-linked, floating rate notes, credit, equities, property and derivatives (Swaps, Futures, Options, Swaptions).
• Experience of financial reporting processes and metrics employed in insurance or the banking industry such as: Economic Capital, Solvency II, ALM, PnL attribution, DV01, VaR, WARF.
• Experience in 1st or 2nd line risk-management functions within insurance or banking sector would be highly advantageous.
• General knowledge of equity-release/life-time mortgage products would be highly advantageous.
• General knowledge of market and credit risk models would be highly advantageous.

Additional Information

• Competitive Salary ranging from circa £60,000 - circa £90,000 (depending on experience)
• Annual Performance Related Bonus
• Holiday Allowance – 27 days plus all UK bank holidays
• Pension Contribution – L&G match any personal contributions up to 5% and then provide a further top up of 5%
• Private Medical
• Life Insurance
• Income Protection
• Smart Spending – which gives you access to vouchers/shopping discounts

Please note the above are just a few of the many benefits you will be entitled to when you join L&G from day one.

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.