Senior Market Security Specialist

Gallagher; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading reinsurance company in Ipswich is seeking a Senior Market Security Specialist to support operational and analytical needs. The role involves managing data quality, conducting financial assessments, and ensuring compliance with market policies. Ideal candidates should have strong analytical skills and experience in financial reporting. Competitive salary and rich benefits package offered.

Benefits

Minimum of 25 days holiday

Defined contribution pension scheme

Life insurance

Income protection

Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Volunteering days

Employee Stock Purchase plan

Discounted gym membership

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and numerical mindset.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills.
• Prior experience of analyzing financial statements and producing high-quality written reports.
• Understanding of key accounting concepts.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to executing the team’s strategic objectives ensuring operational efficiency.
• Provide counterparty credit analytical expertise.
• Act as a key support in implementing risk controls.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Excel skills

Education

Professional qualification

Job description

Introduction

Join us at Gallagher Re, the trailblazers of the reinsurance world, where every day brings new opportunities to shape the future. We empower our clients with cutting-edge analytics and insights, providing them the confidence to make strategic decisions that transform industries. As a team member, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, translating data into impactful solutions and taking the reins of your career like never before.

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

We are recruiting a Senior Market Security Specialist to join our team in Ipswich!

As a Senior Market Security Specialist, you will provide core operational and 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 passionate about 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.

How you\'ll make an impact

The successful candidate will support key business initiatives focused on operational efficiencies, high quality analysis and data reliability. Suitable training will be provided where appropriate.

The role is a fantastic development opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders and provide valuable contribution to the continued development of the Gallagher Re Market Security function.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to executing the team’s strategic objectives ensuring and, where appropriate identifying and driving forward, operational efficiency.
• Providing counterparty credit analytical expertise to support the global business.
• Act as a key support in implementing the team’s key risk controls surrounding non-approved markets.
• Become a fundamental and trusted member of the analytical team, responding to key stakeholder requests in an efficient and highly professional manner.
• 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.
• Prior experience of analysing financial statements and producing high quality written reports.
• An understanding of key accounting concepts and a proven foundation in the fundamentals of financial statements.
• Strong attention to detail.
• The ability and desire to build and manage relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Developed Excel skills.
• Professional qualification (desirable but not essential).
• 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, 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 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.