Matching Adjustment Advisor​/Actuary

• Permanent/Regular or Fixed Term Contract/Temporary:
  Permanent (UK and ROW) / Regular (US)
• L&G Business Unit:
  Legal & General Retirements Institutional
• L&G sub Business Unit: INSTITUTIONAL RETIREMENTS
• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  London, One Coleman Street
• Job Family:
  Finance

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.

L&G Institutional Retirement looks after around 700,000 institutional customers who have their retirement benefits secured with us. Operating continuously in the UK market from our entrance in 1987, we are the UK’s longest-running insurer.

Our Institutional Retirement business is the UK’s longest-serving active bulk annuity provider.

Who we are

Institutional Retirement is the only insurer to have been operating continuously in the UK market from our entrance in 1987 to the present day. Our UK retirement annuity book stands at an estimated £86.1 billion at 31 December 2023.

Across our retail and institutional retirement businesses, we look after more than 1 million customers, around c.700,000 of whom are institutional customers who have had their retirement benefits secured with us.

We’re recruiting for a Matching Adjustment Advisor/Actuary to join the MA team in our Institutional Retirement division.

In this role, you’ll work collaboratively across finance, actuarial and wider business functions to strengthen our Matching Adjustment (MA) permissions, enhance key processes and help ensure ongoing MA compliance. You will also directly support our New Business, Structuring and Investments teams, who rely on high‑quality MA advice to support delivery.

This role is a Hybrid working opportunity, which will allow you to split your working week between your home and our London office to find a work‑life balance that works for you.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborate with wider teams to make sure that changes to MA requirements are implemented effectively
• Run and improve the MA attestation framework – this is an annual process to confirm to the Group CFO that the MA benefit within our Solvency II balance sheet is appropriate
• Run and improve the MA confirmation framework – this is an annual process to test and evidence MA compliance
• Monitor MA metrics and arrange for MA application data to be updated
• Review and improve MA controls, run the MA escalation framework, review and resolve potential breaches
• Develop and improve MA ORSA processes
• Make sure that MA related risk reporting is integrated and streamlined

Who we're looking for:

• A qualified actuary, accountant, or CFA (we are also open to part‑qualified if they have suitable relevant experience)
• Experience working in Life Insurance/Pensions
• Knowledge of Solvency II and the ability to understand the MA regulatory framework in detail and apply it to business needs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including structured report writing
• Ability to build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships, including with regulators
• A collaborative approach and confidence influencing others
• Strong analytical capability with attention to detail and a commitment to producing accurate outputs
• Curiosity about the wider business and a delivery‑focused mindset

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
• Life assurance
• At least 27 days holiday, plus public holidays. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers…