Senior Compliance Analyst

Legal & General; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK financial services group is seeking a Senior Compliance Analyst to support the Compliance team. The role involves engaging with regulators, analyzing regulatory changes, and assisting with compliance projects. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical and communication skills, and a good educational background.

Benefits

Performance-related bonus plan

Generous pension contribution

Life assurance

Healthcare Plan

At least 25 days holiday

Competitive family leave

Electric car scheme

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Good analytical skills and broad industry awareness including of emerging regulation.
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist with internal and regulatory engagements, ensuring records of all regulatory contact.
• Analyze emerging regulation and its impact on LGIM.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of Group policies and compliance requirements.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Attention to Detail

Communication Skills

Education

Good Standard of Education

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 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’re recruiting for aSenior Compliance Analyst to join us. You will work as part of the Compliance team to provide high quality compliance support to the Chief Compliance Office (CCO) and Head of Regulatory Engagement. You will be proactively facilitating engagement with asset management’s key regulators, identifying and conducting analysis on regulatory change and providing support to the CCO’s office. The ideal candidate will have an asset management background, strong written and verbal communication skills supplemented by good organisational skills, including an ability to prioritise.

What you’ll be doing:

• Assisting with internal and regulatory engagements (such as meeting planning, minutes, action tracking, internal briefings, mail-box management) and ensuring LGIM has a record of all regulatory contact and engagement
• Assisting with the analysis of emerging regulation, and its impact on LGIM
• Assisting the CCO by providing support as appropriate. This may include support on Compliance wide projects, production of high impact, insightful and concise management information, reports, presentations, and briefing notes
• Assisting with the review of compliance policies and procedures and participate as directed in the production of regular Compliance internal communication materials in order to support business awareness and understanding
• Personally maintaining a detailed knowledge of Group policies, compliance and conduct risk requirements, keeping abreast of changes and developments including those externally
• Playing an active part in the wider global Risk and Compliance team, supporting colleagues as required, in order to achieve the right outcomes for LGIM

Qualifications

Who we’re looking for:

• A good standard of education is required
• Good analytical skills and broad industry awareness including of emerging regulation
• Demonstrate high attention to detail and ability to work effectively, both individually and within a team
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure high quality delivery of regulatory updates
• Proactively develop effective and efficient methods and tools to manage accurate records
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with colleagues to promote the work of the Compliance team more generally

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.