Payroll Controls and Governance Analyst

LegalAndGeneral; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in Cardiff is seeking a Payroll Controls and Governance Analyst. This role is critical for ensuring payroll processes are compliant and effective. Responsibilities include managing KPI dashboards and supporting operational resilience. Candidates should have 2-3 years of payroll experience and strong Excel skills. The company offers competitive benefits and a culture focused on inclusivity and flexibility.

Benefits

Annual performance-related bonus plan

Generous pension contribution

Life assurance

Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)

At least 25 days holiday plus public holidays

Option to buy and sell holiday

Competitive family leave

Electric car scheme

Discounts on products and services

Qualifications

• 2-3 years' experience in payroll processing and reconciliation.
• Basic payroll and accounting reasoning.
• Ability to present information effectively to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage and circulate reconciliation KPI dashboards.
• Support control attestations and maintain records.
• Shape and improve payroll controls frameworks.
• Coordinate creation and review of operational guides.
• Report on outstanding reconciliations.
• Embed Conduct Risk principles.
• Advocate for risk culture best practices.
• Assist with operational resilience and governance projects.

Skills

End-to-end payroll knowledge

Intermediate to advanced Excel skills

Clear communication

Relationship building

Flexibility and continuous improvement

Job description

Company Description

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We've been safeguarding people's financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world's largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

L&G Retail supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK's number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers - all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club - the UK's largest - and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers.

Job Description

We're recruiting for a Payroll Controls and Governance Analyst to join us. We're offering a competitive base salary. At Legal & General, we're committed to delivering good customer outcomes through resilient, accurate, and timely payroll services. As a Payroll Controls and Governance Analyst, you'll play a key role in ensuring our payroll processes are well-controlled, compliant, and transparent. You'll work closely with colleagues across the business to reduce risk, support operational resilience, and maintain our trusted reputation with customers and regulators alike.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing and circulating reconciliation KPI dashboards for Payroll and wider leadership
• Supporting control attestations and maintaining records of control failures and risk events
• Shaping and improving controls frameworks across core payroll processes and systems
• Coordinating the creation and review of reconciliation and operational process guides
• Reporting on outstanding reconciliations to support balance sheet management
• Embedding Conduct Risk principles to ensure good customer outcomes
• Advocating for risk culture best practice and collaborating with risk and complaints teams
• Assisting with operational resilience, incident management and governance-related projects

Qualifications

Who we're looking for:

• Demonstrating knowledge of end-to-end payroll and reconciliation processes
• Applying basic payroll and accounting reasoning to support controls and reporting
• Using intermediate to advanced Excel skills for analysis and dashboard creation
• Presenting information clearly and effectively to various stakeholders
• Building strong relationships across teams to support governance and compliance
• Showing 2-3 years' experience in payroll processing and reconciliation
• Leading by example in promoting L&G behaviours and risk culture
• Adapting to change with flexibility and a drive for continuous improvement

Benefits

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years' service. There's also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you'll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn't matter if you don't meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.

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