Partner Assurance Analyst

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

Job summary

Join a leading company in risk management as a Partner Assurance Analyst, where you'll negotiate essential business agreements and collaborate with diverse teams. This role offers opportunities to tackle complex challenges, ensure compliance, and significantly contribute to operational success. With a competitive salary and robust benefits, Gallagher values your unique contributions and commitment to excellence.

Benefits

Minimum of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Defined contribution pension scheme

Life insurance up to 10x salary

Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Employee Stock Purchase plan

Discounted gym membership

Qualifications

• Strong attention to detail in all tasks and documentation.
• Experience in compliance or assurance is advantageous.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate and draft Non-Standard Terms of Business Agreement contracts.
• Collaborate with various teams to address queries and renegotiate agreements.
• Maintain central records of agreements and ensure compliance.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Organisational skills

Compliance knowledge

IT skills

Job description

Introduction

Indulge your passion for problem-solving and embrace the thrill of addressing risk head-on at Gallagher's global brokerage team. Join a family of diverse minds, united by a relentless pursuit of excellence. As part of our team, you'll be the architect of protection, safeguarding businesses and empowering their ambitions. Together, we'll build a legacy of trust and triumph in the dynamic world of risk management.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

Overview

Our Partner Assurance Agency Team is the heartbeat of our operations, pioneering the on-boarding of new trading partners and crafting agreements that define our business relationships. Positioned as the "first line of defence" in our governance framework, this team is crucial in ensuring compliance and facilitating seamless transactions.

As a Partner Assurance Analyst, you will be instrumental in negotiating and drafting essential agreements that facilitate smooth and effective business transactions across the organisation. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with diverse teams, tackle complex challenges, and make a significant contribution to the success and efficiency of our operations.

How you'll make an impact

• Negotiate, draft, and support Non-Standard Terms of Business Agreement contracts, ensuring their seamless administration and execution.

• Collaborate with the Standard Terms of Business Team, addressing queries and renegotiating Standard TOBAs to optimise agreements.

• Accurately maintain and publish central records of agreements, ensuring transparency and easy access for all stakeholders.

• Build relationships with trading partners and internal divisions, including Retail, Wholesale, and Underwriting, to drive mutual success.

• Manage and nurture relationships with internal stakeholders, such as Compliance, Legal, and Financial Crime teams, fostering alignment and collaboration.

• Ensure all processes are meticulously documented, adhered to, and updated in accordance with Legal and Regulatory obligations, maintaining the highest standards of compliance.

• Provide robust support to the Partner Assurance Team in project work, delivering valuable management information and stepping up during peak workloads.

• Continuously enhance your understanding of the UK regulatory framework, positioning yourself as a knowledgeable and reliable expert in your role.

• Contribute to and support submissions and regular reporting, shaping insightful narratives for Management and the Director of Partner Assurance.

About You

• Strong attention to detail, ensuring precision and accuracy in all tasks and documentation.
• Experience in compliance or assurance, which would be advantageous in navigating regulatory environments.
• Ability to meticulously manage complex information and processes, maintaining clarity and organisation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including active listening, to effectively engage and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Proficient IT skills and a willingness to learn and adapt to new systems.
• Efficiently prioritising and organising your workload to meet deadlines and achieve objectives.
• 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.

• Strong attention to detail, ensuring precision and accuracy in all tasks and documentation.
• Experience in compliance or assurance, which would be advantageous in navigating regulatory environments.
• Ability to meticulously manage complex information and processes, maintaining clarity and organisation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including active listening, to effectively engage and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Proficient IT skills and a willingness to learn and adapt to new systems.
• Efficiently prioritising and organising your workload to meet deadlines and achieve objectives.
• Eligible to work in the UK.

• Negotiate, draft, and support Non-Standard Terms of Business Agreement contracts, ensuring their seamless administration and execution.

• Collaborate with the Standard Terms of Business Team, addressing queries and renegotiating Standard TOBAs to optimise agreements.

• Accurately maintain and publish central records of agreements, ensuring transparency and easy access for all stakeholders.

• Build relationships with trading partners and internal divisions, including Retail, Wholesale, and Underwriting, to drive mutual success.

• Manage and nurture relationships with internal stakeholders, such as Compliance, Legal, and Financial Crime teams, fostering alignment and collaboration.

• Ensure all processes are meticulously documented, adhered to, and updated in accordance with Legal and Regulatory obligations, maintaining the highest standards of compliance.

• Provide robust support to the Partner Assurance Team in project work, delivering valuable management information and stepping up during peak workloads.

• Continuously enhance your understanding of the UK regulatory framework, positioning yourself as a knowledgeable and reliable expert in your role.

• Contribute to and support submissions and regular reporting, shaping insightful narratives for Management and the Director of Partner Assurance.