Senior Finance Analyst

Are you passionate about turning data into meaningful insights that help shape business decisions? We're looking for a Senior Finance Analyst to join our Group Head Office Finance team based in Hove, partnering with senior stakeholders across the business to deliver robust financial reporting, insightful analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine financial expertise with data and technology skills, helping to strengthen reporting processes, improve decision-making and drive greater efficiency across the organisation. Working closely with Finance Business Partners, Group Finance and business leaders, you'll play a key role in understanding costs, identifying trends and delivering high-quality analysis that supports strategic outcomes.

What you’ll be doing:

• Identifying opportunities to improve financial reporting processes and implementing efficient, sustainable solutions
• Supporting monthly, quarterly and annual forecasting and planning activities across assigned business areas
• Leading month-end reporting activities and ensuring financial information is accurate and complete
• Producing insightful financial analysis and management information to support informed decision-making
• Building and enhancing reporting tools, dashboards and Power BI models to improve transparency and efficiency
• Partnering with cost centre owners and stakeholders to support budgeting, forecasting and financial planning
• Monitoring financial controls, accounting standards and compliance requirements across reporting activities
• Supporting business transformation initiatives by providing financial insight, challenge and analytical expertise
• Supporting regulatory reporting submissions to FCA & PRA

Who we’re looking for:

• Part-qualified or qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA preferred) with relevant commercial experience

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

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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 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.