Job Description
We’re recruiting for a Payroll Controls and Governance Analyst to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary. At Legal & General, we’re committed to delivering good customer outcomes through resilient, accurate, and timely payroll services. As a Payroll Controls and Governance Analyst, you’ll play a key role in ensuring our payroll processes are well-controlled, compliant, and transparent. You’ll work closely with colleagues across the business to reduce risk, support operational resilience, and maintain our trusted reputation with customers and regulators alike.What you'll be doing:
1. Managing and circulating reconciliation KPI dashboards for Payroll and wider leadership
2. Supporting control attestations and maintaining records of control failures and risk events
3. Shaping and improving controls frameworks across core payroll processes and systems
4. Coordinating the creation and review of reconciliation and operational process guides
5. Reporting on outstanding reconciliations to support balance sheet management
6. Embedding Conduct Risk principles to ensure good customer outcomes
7. Advocating for risk culture best practice and collaborating with risk and complaints teams
8. Assisting with operational resilience, incident management and governance-related projects
QualificationsWho we're looking for:Insert who we’re looking for bullet points here (Recruiter to remove guidance before publishing)
9. Demonstrating knowledge of end-to-end payroll and reconciliation processes
10. Applying basic payroll and accounting reasoning to support controls and reporting
11. Using intermediate to advanced Excel skills for analysis and dashboard creation
12. Presenting information clearly and effectively to various stakeholders
13. Building strong relationships across teams to support governance and compliance
14. Showing 2–3 years’ experience in payroll processing and reconciliation
15. Leading by example in promoting L&G behaviours and risk culture
16. Adapting to change with flexibility and a drive for continuous improvement
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:
17. The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
18. Generous pension contribution
19. Life assurance
20. Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
21. At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
22. Competitive family leave
23. 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)
24. There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
25. In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart
Additional InformationAt 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, term-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. Share this article