Senior Investment Analyst

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 Institutional Retirement looks after around 700,000 institutional customers who have their retirement benefits secured with us.

Job Description

We’re looking for a driven, collaborative Senior Investment Analyst to join our Funding & Derivative Management team within ALM. You’ll play a key role in enhancing our investment processes, supporting derivative and funding activities, and helping us deliver robust, data‑driven portfolio insights. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys problem‑solving, quantitative analytics, and working closely with supportive colleagues across functions.

What you'll be doing:

• Developing tools that integrate sovereign and macroeconomic analysis into portfolio construction
• Designing and building analytical models using quantitative and structured‑product techniques
• Creating and refining solutions for derivatives pricing, optimisation, and risk analysis
• Maintaining and enhancing portfolio monitoring tools and reporting frameworks
• Contributing to macro market analysis through data gathering and quantitative assessments
• Providing operational and analytical support across daily processes and workflow demands
• Embedding Conduct Risk principles into day‑to‑day work to support positive customer outcomes
• Supporting Consumer Duty by ensuring processes and controls are aligned with good customer outcomes

Qualifications

Who we're looking for:

• Degree‑level qualification in Physics, Mathematics, or another quantitative discipline
• Strong understanding of fixed income mathematics, derivatives, and cash‑flow mechanics
• Proficiency in Excel/VBA and Python, with experience building analytical tools
• Solid grasp of statistics and quantitative techniques applied to large datasets
• Motivated interest in financial markets, including funding, sovereign assets, and derivatives
• Experience in banking, investment, or analytics within rates, credit, or fixed‑income environments
• Proven analytical and problem‑solving ability, with a structured approach to delivering solutions
• A collaborative team player with strong communication skills and the ability to work well across teams

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 many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience

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.