Compliance and Sanctions Manager

Introduction

Join our growing team of dedicated professionals at Gallagher Bassett, who guide those in need to the best possible outcomes for their health and wellbeing. You\’ll be part of a resilient team that works together to redefine the boundaries of excellence. At our organization, we value collaboration and making a positive impact in the lives of our clients and claimants, offering you the opportunity to join a team where your skills and dedication can truly make a difference. GUIDE. GUARD. GO BEYOND.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

Gallagher Bassett is seeking a Compliance Specialist, focusing on sanctions and financial crime. This role is crucial for ensuring adherence to all relevant regulations, with a particular focus on advising our newly acquired Marine business, WK Webster.

As Gallagher Bassett continues to expand throughout EMEA, this position will play a key role in integrating future acquisitions and scaling the Compliance team and there will be opportunities to progress.

How you\’ll make an impact

• Sanctions Compliance:

  • Manage and implement sanctions procedures and screening processes, ensuring alignment with current regulations and effective risk mitigation.
  • Conduct audits and reviews of business activities to identify potential sanctions violations, providing expert advice on screening results.
  • Serve as the key compliance contact for our Marine business, collaborating with the global Gallagher Sanctions team to ensure consistent compliance efforts.

• Financial Crime Prevention:

  • Oversee financial crime aspects of the compliance framework, including money laundering, fraud, and bribery, developing robust policies and procedures.
  • Conduct risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and recommend mitigation strategies, while investigating and reporting suspicious activities.
  • Provide guidance and training to employees on financial crime prevention strategies, improving awareness and adherence to best practices.

• General Compliance Matters:

  • Co-manage the compliance mailbox, ensuring timely and accurate responses to queries, and developing a knowledge base for streamlined handling.
  • Triage and prioritise compliance queries to ensure efficient resolution
  • Assist with complaints and data-related matters during team members’ leave, ensuring continuity of service and seamless operations.

• Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A):

  • Assist with compliance-related due diligence for acquisition targets, ensuring thorough evaluation and integration of compliance frameworks.
  • Integrate new acquisitions from a compliance perspective, addressing unique business types and jurisdictional requirements.
  • Expand compliance frameworks, policies, and procedures to accommodate new acquisitions, ensuring seamless integration and adherence to regulations.

• Other Responsibilities:

  • Prepare regular reports on compliance activities, including detailed analyses of sanctions and financial crime prevention efforts.
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation of compliance processes, investigations, and outcomes, ensuring records are accurate and accessible.
  • Perform additional duties as required by Gallagher Bassett, contributing to the success and growth of the team.

About you

• Extensive experience in compliance, with a focus on sanctions and financial crime prevention, and a strong understanding of global regulations and laws.
• Preferred experience in the Marine insurance market, demonstrating excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, with proficiency in compliance management software and tools.
• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and integrity.

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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 TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com . 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.

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