Company Description

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.

Job Description

We are recruiting a Property Fund Analyst to provide fund analysis and financial modelling to the property fund management team (property equity direct investments). The ideal candidate will be a focused, self-motivated, energetic and pro-active individual with a willingness to work independently on analytical assignments.
The successful candidate will have the benefit of working on two of Real Assets rapidly growing property equity funds with plenty of scope for career development in a challenging and rewarding role.

Duties include:

• Long income property pricing and modelling which includes detailed cashflow modelling of prospective transactions to aid the investment decision making process.
• Create, maintain and evolve fund models to assess the impact of transactions on portfolio level risk and return metrics and continually develop the quality of fund-level management information.
• Analyse the relative value of property investments against fixed income investments, which at times requires understanding and application of life insurance company asset valuation methodologies.
• Providing analysis and insight in the areas of interest rate and inflation market data.
• Modelling and analysing fund performance as compared to MSCI real estate benchmarks.
• Assist in the preparation of annual fund strategy reports, investment performance forecasts. Client reporting, investor communications and the preparation of presentation materials will also be required.
• Assist with portfolio monitoring, including tracking tenant credit ratings within the portfolio.
• Work with the wider platform to implement new technology solutions to enhance speed and sophistication of financial modelling analysis and simplify access to data.
• Attend external valuation meetings, providing technical input where required, evaluating valuers’ models and working with more experienced members of the team to deepen our understanding of the valuation methodology used by valuers.

Qualifications

• A highly numerate individual with extensive experience in building, using, adapting and sensitivity-testing Excel-based financial models. Experience with Visual Basic is an advantage.
• A diligent and responsible approach to checking financial modelling assumptions, results and forecasts.
• Studying towards becoming a CFA charterholder, or similar professional qualification, is an advantage.
• Candidates from a range of quantitative backgrounds will be considered.
• Experience of and/or a working knowledge of a range of actuarial techniques such as asset/liability management, interest rate and inflation hedging; cash-flow matching, and a working knowledge of the fundamental concepts within fixed income and commercial property asset classes.
• A general understanding of the structure and workings of the balance sheet of a typical UK annuity provider would be advantageous.
• Solid understanding of investment return calculations, preferably for commercial property and residential property investments.
• An ability to clearly communicate complex ideas in written formats as well as verbally, in both formal client and informal settings.
• Self-motivated, energetic and pro-active with a willingness to learn and work independently on analytical assignments.
• Insightful when approaching fund analysis tasks to support fund manager and transaction managers to create value or solve problems.
• Efficiently prioritising tasks and managing a workload for multiple stakeholders.
• A genuine interest in financial markets and a desire to further their career within an asset management setting.

Additional Information

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?

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.