You will play a critical role in driving the financial outcomes for the Specialist Commercial Real Estate portfolio

The Specialist Commercial Real Estate portfolio comprises over £1bn in AUM across multiple development and income yielding projects. This includes investments in city centre regeneration projects, university-led science and technology hubs, retail and other commercial property assets. The role will involve providing active support to the investment teams and the wider L&G organisation in delivering   controlled, timely and high-quality reporting of the assets results and their operations.

• Provide active support to investment teams, finance colleagues and the wider L&G organisation in delivering controlled, timely and high-quality reporting asset results and their operations.
• Actively engage with stakeholders to ensure the best outcome for Legal and General Capital against our key performance metrics
• Analyse and evaluate investment models and review reported information to produce deliverables that feed into the monthly reporting to the LGC Performance Committee and the bi-annual valuation process including preparing reports for LGC’s Asset Valuation committee.
• Support the Group’s sustainability and ESG agenda and reporting metrics across the portfolio.
• Deal with operational issues, reporting challenges, accounting treatments and review of financial performance and position.
• Play an important role in shaping the financial outcomes that form LGC’s 5-year plan across the SCRE portfolio. This drives the underlying business strategies, financial targets and the allocation of capital.
• Support the central LGC Finance team in collating the financial plan for the wider division to forecast operating profit, PBT, cash utilisation and other financial and non-financial metrics.
• Support investment teams with M&A transactions and significant financial events such as restructurings and refinancing, supporting investment appraisals and valuations of potential projects
• Feed into wider multi-disciplinary teams and support the preparation and presentation of Investment Committee approval papers focused on investment strategies and identification of business drivers for profitability and capital allocation
• Engage with senior stakeholders in LGC as well as various stakeholders across the division and wider Group including Risk, Actuarial, Tax and Reporting teams
• Support the team’s interaction with external stakeholders such as 3rd party valuers, investee companies, M&A advisors, and consultants

• Relevant accounting/ financial qualification required, preferably ACA/ACCA
• Demonstrable commercial acumen and interest in alternative asset investment
• Finance background and skills
• Strong excel and data presentation skills 
• A solid financial analysis grounding to assist senior finance and investment staff in assessing and reporting the division’s performance and medium-term value creation plans with reference to its liquidity requirements and PBT generation
• Minimum 1-2 years’ PQE with experience in real estate and infrastructure sectors (preferable but not essential)
• Experience of working to tight reporting deadlines, ideally in large corporate teams

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave. 

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.