Finance Business Partner

Gallagher Re; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global reinsurance leader is seeking a Finance Business Partner in London to provide financial insights, support decision-making, and lead reporting processes. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with experience in the insurance sector, ready to make an impact by driving financial excellence within a collaborative team. The role offers strong growth potential and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Defined contribution pension scheme

Life insurance up to 10x basic salary

Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Discounted gym membership

Qualifications

• Experience supporting non-accounting managers in financial analysis.
• Insurance industry experience preferred.
• Strong understanding of Management Accounting techniques.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality financial analysis and modeling.
• Analyze financial performance and challenge business decisions.
• Lead and support the financial close process.

Skills

Financial analysis

Communication

Commercial awareness

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, or ACCA)

Job description

Introduction

At Gallagher Re, we bring clarity to complexity by helping clients around the world make confident, data-driven decisions in a rapidly evolving risk landscape. Here, you’ll be part of a team that leverages world-class analytics and deep reinsurance expertise to deliver strategic advisory services and transactional excellence. Together, we transform advanced insights and market intelligence into strategies that protect businesses, drive performance, and shape the future of reinsurance. We’re a community of decision makers, future shapers, and trusted experts working side by side to deliver meaningful impact through innovative thinking and practical solutions. At Gallagher Re, your curiosity is welcomed, your growth is championed, and your work truly matters. This is a place where you'll have the freedom to explore new ideas, take ownership of your career, and collaborate with people who are as driven and inquisitive as you are.

Overview

Gallagher Re, a key division of Gallagher International Brokerage, is seeking a proactive and dynamic Finance Business Partner to join our team. Operating at the heart of the reinsurance market, Gallagher Re is a global leader in delivering innovative and tailored reinsurance solutions to clients worldwide. This is your chance to take on a critical role in driving financial excellence, supporting strategic decision-making, and contributing to the success of a business built on innovation, collaboration, and growth.

Ready to Make an Impact?

Join Gallagher Re as a Finance Business Partner and help shape the future of a global industry leader!

How you'll make an impact

As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll be the trusted advisor, providing expert financial insights and guidance to leadership. You will:

• Strategic Financial Support: Deliver high-quality financial analysis, advice, and modelling to enable well-informed decision-making aligned with company objectives.
• Business Partnering & Decision Support: Analyse financial performance, challenge business decisions, and provide clear insights to leaders.
• Collaboration Focus: Cultivate positive connections with collaborators, challenge performance, and support growth initiatives to drive profitability.
• Monthly Management Reporting: Lead and support the financial close process, present management accounts, and embed financial control in business processes.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Coordinate annual budget processes, improve forecasting models, and ensure accurate allocation of overhead expenses.
• Change Management: Contribute to finance inputs for new systems and drive improvement initiatives across the business.
• Leadership & Development: Support the management and development of colleagues, ensuring exceptional service delivery.

About You

• Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, or ACCA) with experience supporting non-accounting managers in complex financial analysis and modelling.
• Insurance industry experience.
• Proven knowledge of Management Accounting techniques and Financial Accounting principles.
• Great communicator, able to build strong personal relationships at all levels.
• Strong commercial awareness and influencing skills.
• Proactive, prepared to take ownership of assigned tasks and multi-task.
• Excellent teammate with a can-do attitude.
• Able to work to tight deadlines.
• Able to communicate key messages clearly and concisely.
• Experience in cost management and reduction.
• Good awareness of what constitutes good conduct in a regulatory environment.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.

Compensation and benefits

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days.
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to.
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x.
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up.
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance.

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year.
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount.
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan.
• Critical illness cover.
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally.
• Season ticket loan.
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase.
• Emergency back-up family care.
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work. Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health or disabilities. We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with [e-mail]. If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.