Company Description

The UK is facing a housing crisis, and not everyone has the means to enjoy the security and stability of owning their own home. Our aim at Legal & General Affordable Homes is to transform the affordable housing sector. With a fast-growing pipeline of over 80,000 homes, we’re committed to investing in housing for all ages, social groups and tenures. We’re collaborating with developers, housing associations and public sector bodies across the country to drive investment into the UK’s affordable housing and social housing sector. Focusing primarily on the affordable rent, shared ownership and rent-to-buy markets, we’re striving to be the UK’s leading private affordable housing provider, known for excellent service and quality homes. We want to have a positive economic and social impact on the regions and communities in which we work.

Legal & General Affordable Homes is a subsidiary of Legal & General Capital, which focuses on growth opportunities and scale ups, and invests its long-term capital in sectors in need of investment and innovation.

Job Description

Your role at a glance

Reporting to the Director of Governance, Policy and Strategic Projects, you will  be responsible for working with senior stakeholders to build and oversee a company-wide assurance framework.

Using your knowledge of risk management and the three lines of defence assurance model, You will support teams to develop and implement assurance activities  to provide positive assurance that processes across the LGAH business are operating effectively.

You will use your experience of working with senior stakeholders to guide teams to produce insightful reporting, that supports leaders to be aware of the effectiveness of their first line controls and generates opportunities for future improvements to the control environment.

What you'll be doing

• You will create a function that will provide quality assurance for LGAH’s business
• You will design and keep updated an assurance framework for the business.
• You will work with the executive to define LGAH’s risk appetite with regard to process driven operational risk and through: the facilitation of post implementation reviews of significant areas of new business; the root cause investigation of risk events; the sample checking of processes across the business to determine where processes are not working effectively; and supporting the first line with process improvements, ensure that LGAH operates within its risk appetite.
• You will utilise data analytics where appropriate to support the quality assurance of first line process adherence.
• You will be working with the Executive to embed good behaviours and habits that support effective control and process operation and in so doing, create a strong culture of process management by developing measurements of process adherence, encouraging first line staff to follow processes, and ensure that learnings from failings in one process area of the business are communicated to and used by other areas of the business to drive improvements.
• You will work collaboratively with the Process Design Lead and Process Owners to support the testing and improvement of processes across the business.
• You will keep abreast of assurance and assurance analytical developments and advise the business on best practice.
• You will continually promote and ensure compliance with the Group’s Equality and Diversity policy and procedures.
• You will establish, develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• You will always ensure compliance with the Group’s Health and Safety policy and compliance with all health and safety legal responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Qualification in risk or assurance preferable.
• Excellent working knowledge of risk and assurance in a regulated environment.
• Comfortable in influencing and building strong relationships with key stakeholders at all levels.
• Proven organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Experience in the financial services and/or affordable housing industries.
• Experience in working in a risk or assurance function, carrying out assurance activity and designing assurance programmes.
• Well versed in best practice in risk and assurance.
• Experience of creating a new assurance function, developing ways of working and monitoring success.
• Understanding of financial services, affordable housing or residential construction would be desirable.
• Experience of working with senior leaders to gather insight and management information on assurance activity and process adherence and presenting this information to senior stakeholders.
• Great communication, able to work across the business to encourage process adherence and a strong control environment
• Understanding of process management and appropriate controls.
• Guide the LGAH first line to better operational process outcomes and effective management of risk.
• Collate, interpret and report MI to identify trends and issues and bring these to the attention of the first line.
• Maintain effective collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, such as the LGC CRO.
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite software.

Additional Information

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 family private medical insurance, 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme and life assurance. You'll receive a car allowance of 10% of your annual salary, and 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 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. 

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.