Job Description
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, youll 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.Were 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
Are you a results-driven finance professional with a passion for delivering strategic insights and driving performance? Do you thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and have a proven track record in the insurance industry? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Finance Business Partner for Gal Re, focusing on the Latin America and Caribbean region.
As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you will act as a key interface between Finance and the business, providing expert financial guidance and enabling data-driven decision-making. You will partner directly with senior stakeholders to achieve financial and operational targets, supporting sustainable growth within our insurance brokerage business.
This role offers the opportunity to lead on strategic financial analysis, performance management, and budgeting, while also contributing to Gallagher-wide projects and initiatives. You will play a pivotal role in mentoring and developing less experienced staff, fostering collaboration, and ensuring high standards across the finance function.
How you'll make an impact
- Provide strategic business partnering, financial analysis and guidance to senior leadership, highlighting key issues impacting performance.
- Deliver insightful financial information, including variance analysis, KPIs, and balanced scorecards, to ensure growth and profitability targets are met.
- Lead the budgeting and forecasting process, ensuring accuracy and completeness of business plans.
- Prepare and present monthly management accounts and forecasts, offering actionable insights to senior stakeholders.
- Develop robust business cases to support investment decisions and strategic growth initiatives.
- Drive change management and process improvement initiatives across Finance and the wider business.
- Embed strong financial controls and maintain a disciplined approach to task completion.
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to support value-added decision-making.
About You
- A qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, or ACCA) with experience in supporting commercial, non-accounting managers with financial analysis and modelling for both income and costs.
- Currently working in a large and complex business - either within a leading blue chip, financial services or publicly listed firm.
- Prior experience working in a large accounting practice would be benefical.
- Robust stakeholder engagement within a complex matrix is essential.
- Great communicator, able to build strong personal relationships at all levels.
- Being a Spanish or Portuguese speaker, or having a willingness to learn Spanish, would be advantageous.
- Strong commercial awareness and influencing skills.
- Proactive. Prepared to take ownership of assigned tasks and multi-task.
- Proven knowledge of Management Accounting techniques and Financial Accounting principles.
- 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 youll 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, well 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 its 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. Dont worry, were 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 . If youd 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.
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