Company:

Marsh

Description:

We are seeking a talented individual to lead our UK Transaction Advisory team at Marsh Specialty due a recent promotion. This role will be based in London. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

• The Head of TA UK role involves leading a team of 12+ project managers in delivering services to esteemed investor clients. The team’s primary deliverable is insurance due diligence (DD) reporting, and the team also uses DD engagements as opportunities to add additional value for clients through the introduction of other Marsh / Marsh McLennan businesses units to their newly acquired portfolio companies. This provides excellent growth-focused exposure to other business units within the organisation. In addition to client-facing activities, the role also includes responsibility across people management, financial reporting and operational excellence.

• The Transaction Advisory (TA) team is part of Marsh’s global Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions (PEMA) Practice. The TA team draws from Marsh’s in-depth global knowledge to deliver specialist services to the private equity, corporate, infrastructure, and alternative asset management industries. We work with clients during the lifecycle of an investment, advising on risk and insurance matters at acquisition, during the hold phase, and at exit. Our global PEMA practice consists of more than 220 professionals based worldwide.

• The UK TA team has been established for over twenty years and is one of the leading insurance and risk advisory teams in the market. Given that our London-based private capital client community routinely invest in European / global companies, you can expect to regularly interact with our established network of colleagues across the world. This global network is consistently recognised by our clients as a key strength.

We will count on you to:

• Lead a team of 12+ individuals, with line management responsibility for several colleagues
• Shape the future of our market-leading practice
• Allocate new projects efficiently and fairly across the team as they arise
• Maintain an accurate overview of the team’s financial position
• Understand deal-specific requirements of investor clients, including the nature of target businesses
• Check confidentiality agreements (with support from the Legal team, where required)
• Negotiate commercial terms of engagement and issue engagement documentation
• Assess the robustness of target company insurance programmes and associated costs
• Draw on the knowledge of colleagues across Marsh to support this assessment
• Deliver findings to clients in a formal report format, typically supplemented by calls and/or meetings
• Build strong working relationships with investor clients to support business growth
• Identify opportunities to offer other Marsh McLennan services which would be valuable to clients

What you need to have: 

• A strong understanding of Property & Casualty, Liability and Financial Lines insurance programmes would be advantageous
• Exposure to and/or understanding of private equity and M&A
• Strong technical insurance experience, gained working for an insurer or insurance broker
• Experience of leading a team and line management
• Knowledge and experience of global insurance programmes (or working with global clients) would be highly beneficial
• Prior experience of providing advisory services to the M&A community would also be beneficial (but not essential)

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

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Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is the world’s top insurance broker and risk advisor. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $23 billion and more than 85,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at [email protected] McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.