Senior Technical Liability Data Analyst

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VN-12253

Permanent

Hove

Up to £55,000 dependent on experience

30 August 2019

The Senior Technical Liability Data Analyst sits within Legal & General Retirement and is responsible for developing robust and re-usable solutions through data extraction and manipulation. 

Legal & General Retirement (LGR) provides retirement solutions to over one million customers. The retail business helps customers turn their pension savings into lifelong retirement income. The corporate business helps defined benefit pension schemes manage their annuity liabilities, through buy-out, buy-in and longevity insurance arrangements.

Customer Services & Solutions (CSS), a division of LGR, is responsible for all customer contact, customer solutions, technology transformation, business transformation, communications and the provision of asset and liability data & risk analytics to the Group.

The Senior Technical Liability Data Analyst within PRT Client Services is responsible for:

  • Data extraction and analytics for numerous teams/departments spread across multiple locations (e.g. for Financial Reporting, Longevity Risk, Group Financial Crime)
  • Develop robust and re-usable solutions that meet quality control, version control and auditing standards
  • Manipulation of data from various systems for the production of MI/reporting
  • Suggest and implement improvements to streamline current processes.

Responsibilities Include:

  • Work autonomously to maintain technical processes and to support systems critical to the smooth acquisition and running of bulk schemes and annuitant payrolls, ensuring these continue to meet business and regulatory requirements.
  • Work autonomously to ensure analysis and requirements are detailed enough for correct technical decisions to be made and/or solutions implemented right first time
  • Engage, and lead, in other business-critical projects ensuring correct technical decisions are made and requirements implemented in an appropriate manner
  • Communicate effectively with colleagues, third parties and senior managers to ensure understanding of technical issues and requirements and to secure agreement to the appropriate course of action.
  • Identify improvements to technical process and systems and propose effective solutions to relevant business problems that will support effective and efficient achievement of objectives
  • Comply with agreed methodologies and standards to ensure good governance in line with Legal & General principles and commercial interests.

Qualifications

  • Degree level or equivalent, in a technical or numerate field

Knowledge

  • Proven ability to use programming languages and software tools at a high level and standard, pragmatically and with high value to the business requestor
  • Proven ability to address and use initiative to deliver solutions to technical and business problems
  • Capacity to estimate, work with line managers to manage own work and keep within plan
  • A thorough understanding of the features and benefits of bulk and individual annuity products, their underlying data, and how these are supported operationally
  • A good understanding of the decrementing process used by Annuity business
  • A good understanding of Data Quality and Data Governance processes which can be implemented in LGR
  • A good understanding and awareness of Legal & General product and services, and of competitor markets and broader market developments and impact on the organisation

Skills

  • Development experience and coding skills, some of: VB, Java, C++, SQL, APL or SAS. Database tools experience and ETL
  • Database reporting skills, one or more of: Ab Initio, Business Objects, SSRS and/or SAS.
  • Sound documentation and communication skills in a client / customer facing environment
  • Ability to effectively present and influence at senior management level, having the confidence to deal with challenges and objections. Maintains and develops key contacts and network relationships
  • Ability to use a variety of planning tools/aids to help effectively manage own and others activities. Prioritise own work having a regard for Team and business area needs. Can demonstrate an ability to plan realistically and organise across tasks/projects, achieving deadlines as directed. Assist the management team to ensure that appropriate training is delivered in relation to other priorities.
  • Familiarity with web based delivery, Java components

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 27 days' holiday, private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

For further information - please contact Chloe McCauley, Resourcing Lead on chloe.mccauley@landg.com 

About L&G

Working here is about being there for our customers; we’re available should the worst happen and we work together to enable social and financial equality across the UK. But it’s also about you –how you develop and what you can achieve. We’ll help your talent thrive in an environment where you’ll be supported to work flexibly and autonomously, sharing in our success and rewarded for a great performance with a generous benefits package.

About the business area

With around one million customers, our retail business helps turn customers’ pension savings into lifelong retirement income and our corporate business looks after our defined benefit pension schemes ensuring they are effectively managed to protect against risk and achieve their maximum potential.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

About L&G

Working here is about being there for our customers; we’re available should the worst happen and we work together to enable social and financial equality across the UK. But it’s also about you –how you develop and what you can achieve. We’ll help your talent thrive in an environment where you’ll be supported to work flexibly and autonomously, sharing in our success and rewarded for a great performance with a generous benefits package.

About the business area

With around one million customers, our retail business helps turn customers’ pension savings into lifelong retirement income and our corporate business looks after our defined benefit pension schemes ensuring they are effectively managed to protect against risk and achieve their maximum potential.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.