Reporting and Valuation Analyst

Legal & General; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Client Reporting & Valuation Analyst to join their dynamic team in Cardiff. This role is pivotal in ensuring the accurate delivery of portfolio valuations and client reports, while driving operational excellence and compliance. The successful candidate will engage with various stakeholders, resolve queries, and enhance reporting processes. With a commitment to responsible investment and creating long-term value, this firm offers a collaborative environment where your contributions will have a significant impact. If you're ready to take on this exciting challenge and grow your career, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Career development opportunities

Inclusive culture

Support for specific needs

Qualifications

• Experience in valuation, fund accounting, or investment reporting roles.
• Strong understanding of portfolio valuation principles and financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Produce valuations and client reports within deadlines ensuring accuracy.
• Manage end-to-end delivery of client deliverables and resolve queries.

Skills

Valuation knowledge

Financial instruments understanding

Analytical mindset

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or economics

Professional qualification (CFA, IMC, ACCA, CIPM)

Tools

Bloomberg

FactSet

SQL

Power BI

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Job 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 Asset Management is one of Europe’s largest asset managers, providing clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, across public and private markets. As a global investor, we are present where our clients most need us – from Hong Kong and Singapore, to Chicago and major European financial hubs.

Created by combining our investment management (LGIM) and asset origination (LGC) capabilities, our Asset Management division works with our Institutional Retirement and Retail divisions to benefit our clients and customers – which include individual savers, pension scheme members and global institutions – and deliver enhanced shareholder returns.

Joining us means becoming part of a market-leading team, with capabilities across the full spectrum of asset classes, with an enduring commitment to responsible investment and creating long-term, sustainable value for our clients and partners.

Job Description

We are seeking a Client Reporting & Valuation Analyst to be part of a new function in Cardiff, ensuring the accurate delivery of portfolio valuations, NAV calculations and client reports. The role involves dealing with adhoc queries related to both valuations and client reports the analyst is responsible for. A need to liaise with third party vendors to resolve adhoc queries and ensure all reports (client and valuation) are sent within SLA. The analyst will need to understand how to reconcile financial instruments such as derivatives (swaps, repos, futures/forwards, options etc). The successful candidate will drive operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and process improvements within the valuation and reporting framework.

What you’ll be doing:

• Producing valuations and client reports within agreed deadlines and ensure standards of accuracy ensuring all necessary checks are duly observed.
• Owning and managing end to end of delivery of ad-hoc, daily, weekly, monthly & quarterly client deliverables both data and reports.
• Ability to work in an evolving workspace and desire to grow the role.
• Strong knowledge of valuation, financial instruments (fixed income, derivatives, alternatives), and reporting frameworks.
• An analytical mindset with the ability to identify and resolve valuation and reporting discrepancies and issues.
• Strong communication skills to engage with internal and external stakeholders effectively.
• Proven ability to problem solve.
• Promoting a procedural and control mind-set to ensure tasks and controls are consistently documented and reflected to allow top rate accuracy, quality and timeliness of deliverables provided to clients whilst mitigating risk.

Qualifications

Who we’re looking for:

We are looking for someone with an entrepreneurial mindset, someone who wants to drive change and improve processes along the way.

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:

• Experience in a valuation, fund accounting, or investment reporting role within an asset manager, fund administrator, or financial institution.
• A track record of dealing with external and internal clients, building significant relationships with contacts up to and including senior levels.
• Strong understanding of portfolio valuation principles and financial reporting requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field. Professional qualification (e.g., CFA, IMC, ACCA, CIPM) preferred.
• Experience with reporting tools and financial data systems (e.g., Bloomberg, FactSet, SQL, Power BI, Vermilion) is an advantage. Proficient IT skills, primarily with MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly organised and proven ability to problem solve.
• Proactive and proven to work on your own initiative.

Additional Information

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming 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 strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.