Market Security Associate

Gallagher Re; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading reinsurance firm in Ipswich is seeking a Market Security Associate. This role involves providing analytical support to the Market Security Team, conducting market research, and producing high-quality reports. Candidates should have strong analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and a good understanding of financial concepts. Gallagher Re offers comprehensive training and study support. The position is full-time with competitive benefits.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Defined contribution pension scheme

Life insurance

Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Employee Stock Purchase plan

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and numerical mindset.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills.
• Excellent English skills, with track record of successful verbal and written communication.
• An understanding of key accounting concepts and a solid foundation in the fundamentals of financial statements (desirable but not essential).
• Strong attention to detail.
• The ability and desire to build and manage relationships with a range of collaborators.

Responsibilities

• Provide core analytical support to the Market Security Team.
• Conduct detailed market research on reinsurance counterparties.
• Produce high-quality analytical reports on insurance companies.
• Build knowledge of credit rating agency methodology.
• Respond to key stakeholder requests efficiently.
• Contribute to team’s strategic objectives.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Excel skills

Education

Professional qualification (preferred)

Job description

Introduction

Ari 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

We are recruiting a Market Security Associate to join our team in Ipswich! As a Market Security Associate, you will provide core analytical support to the dynamic Gallagher Re Market Security Team. The role will be pivotal in supporting and developing key team business initiatives across Gallagher Re. Market Security is dedicated to establishing confidence that the reinsurers Gallagher Re trade with represent robust and appropriate financial security for our clients. The team undertakes a combination of risk assessment, due diligence, ongoing monitoring and suitable risk mitigation strategies to support this.

Core Market Security activities include:

• Managing data quality within our technology platform which houses a broad range of financial and non-financial data on reinsurance counterparties.
• Employing minimum credit rating thresholds and conducting independent counterparty analysis.
• Providing data and information to colleagues to support clients in understanding and monitoring their reinsurance counterparties.
• Monitoring, understanding, and interpreting the actions taken by the global credit rating agencies.
• Administering the use of non-approved markets in accordance with internal policy and procedures.

This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your career as full training will be provided and study support for the CII qualifications will be included.

How you’ll make an impact

• Conducting detailed market research on (re)insurance counterparties, including interpreting (re)insurance company financial statements covering a diverse range of geographies.
• Producing high quality analytical reports on (re)insurance companies, providing analytical expertise to support the global business.
• Build a solid knowledgebase of credit rating agency methodology.
• Become a fundamental and trusted member of the analytical team, responding to key stakeholder requests in an efficient and highly manner.
• Contribute to accomplishing the team’s strategic objectives by identifying and supporting various operational tasks and projects.
• Be proactive in building and maintaining relationships with a range of stakeholders, including Gallagher senior management and key contacts from within the industry.

About You

• A strong analytical and numerical mindset.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills.
• Excellent English skills, with track record of successful verbal and written communication.
• An understanding of key accounting concepts and a solid foundation in the fundamentals of financial statements. (desirable but not essential).
• Strong attention to detail.
• The ability and desire to build and manage relationships with a range of collaborators.
• Developed Excel skills.
• Professional qualification (preferred but not required).
• Eligible 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 conditions 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.