Your role at a glance
Are you an experienced Business Analyst within Asset Management? are you looking for your next big career move within an inclusive and diverse workforce? We have a fantastic new and exciting permanent opportunity for you here at Legal & General Investment Management as we're now recruiting for an experienced Business Analyst within our index fund management team strategically placed on a large scale transformation programme.
As part of your new role with us you'll have specific responsibilities that include the capture and decomposition of business requirements into a set of build artefacts/stories followed by responsibilities for management of the product backlog, organisation and planning of the development team, progress tracking and MI reporting associated with the development of the product.
What you'll be doing
- Completing a Product Backlog from ‘Epic’ level business analysis and design down to detailed ‘User stories’
- Ownership of backlog creation and estimation for clarification of scope and delivery timeline
- Ownership of design workshops; leading development team and identifying solutions which are captured within the user stories
- Responsible for ensuring developers and testers understand each story prior to any development effort starting
- Provision of wireframes, acceptance criteria and worked examples within each user story
- Creation of BDD feature files for the automated testing of all business logic
- Ownership of Epics and Stories from analysis phase to live; including defect management and work prioritisation
- QA & UAT support ensuring knowledge transfer for each story and guidance around testing scope and approach
What we're looking for
As part of our selection process and as part of the nature of the role, we are looking for the following experience, knowledge and characteristics.
- Must have worked in a fund management company as a business analyst supporting portfolio management
- Must have previous experience of working with data, writing queries, analysing data and defining requirements for optimal data structure
- Demonstrated ability to estimate the time taken to carry out analysis tasks, and meet the time estimated
- Demonstrated ability to develop product backlogs from high level design to detailed small, independent user stories
- Demonstrated ability to develop and execute test plans
- Demonstrated ability to engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with users to define concepts and agree requirements
- Must be able to demonstrate a collaborative approach with developers and subject matter experts to establish the approach to projects, and ensure good communication of requirements
- Experience of Scrum, iterative delivery and scrum ceremonies
- A strong understanding of working software
- Strong communication skills Strong levels of ambition with a keen interest to progress and develop ones career.
Benefits
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, at least 25 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.
About L&G
The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.
Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands.
We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.
We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.
At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.
Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?
About the business area
The world of investment is changing. Our vision at Legal & General Investment Management is to create a better, more sustainable future through responsible investing. We work in partnership with our clients around the globe to deliver positive long-term outcomes, while rising to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. To meet our clients’ complex and evolving investment needs, our investment strategies cover a broad array of asset classes and styles, including equities, bonds, property and alternatives, as well as multi-asset funds. We’re focused on continuously innovating our investment products, maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes, and striving to build a more responsible and sustainable future.
Our commitments to you
Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.
We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.
We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.
We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.
So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.
How to find out more
If this opportunity excites you but you’re not sure you meet all the requirements, or you’d like to know a bit more, please contact Andy Banks at andy.banks@landg.com (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-banks/).
If you’d like to be considered for this role, please submit your application through our careers website as we’re not accepting email applications.