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.
Our global asset management business provides our clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, working internationally across public and private markets.
Who we are
We are one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor across public and private markets.
Asset Management is a critical driver of our Group strategy. The business aims to work synergistically with our Institutional Retirement and Retail divisions to benefit our clients and customers, and deliver enhanced shareholder returns.
Our investment philosophy and processes are focused on creating value over the long term. We believe that incorporating financially material sustainability criteria, when relevant to our clients, can create value and drive positive change.
Job Description
We’re looking for a Data Quality Manager to help build a proactive and sustainable data quality capability within our Asset Management business.
This is a newly created role combining hands-on SQL analysis with data quality management and senior stakeholder engagement. You’ll develop controls that identify data issues earlier, investigate their causes and help the business understand their impact.
You’ll need strong SQL skills and practical experience of running data quality checks. Just as importantly, you’ll be able to explain technical findings clearly, gather business requirements and build effective relationships with colleagues across Asset Management.
What you’ll be doing:
Building and running SQL queries to identify and monitor data quality issues
Developing proactive data quality controls and checks
Analysing data to understand the causes and business impacts of quality issues
Gathering and documenting requirements from business and data stakeholders
Working with senior stakeholders to agree priorities and appropriate actions
Coordinating with offshore resources supporting query execution and analysis
Contributing to management information reporting and data quality dashboards
Helping build a sustainable in-house data quality analysis capability
Who we’re looking for:
Strong hands-on SQL experience, including developing data checks or control queries
Experience analysing, investigating and resolving data quality issues
Good understanding of data quality management and data governance
Experience gathering and translating business requirements
Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills
Confidence explaining technical findings to senior and non-technical audiences
The ability to connect technical data issues with their wider business impact
Experience with Financial services, investment data, Snowflake, Power BI or MI reporting would be helpful
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…