Senior Associate - M&A Asia

The Role

• Responsibility for growing and building on insurance business within Asia and the M&A team internationally ensuring the delivery of revenue targets, in a compliant and ethical manner. 

• Will provide directional management including financial and operational responsibility whilst adhering to Group standards. 

• Will identify, manage and develop client, insurer and team relationships, and convert prospects in M&A and opportunities arising out of M&A into Finex and other LoBs. 

• Help maintain staff competence by ensuring that staff skills or knowledge gaps are met with appropriate training and development, so they are able to perform to their maximum capability.

• Provide leadership, advice and guidance to the team maintaining high levels of integrity and morale.

• Strategy and planning: facilitates collaborative processes, ensuring well-articulated and prioritised set of medium and long-term goals in delivery of the M&A proposition and strategy.

• Execution and placement: focus on building WTW’s M&A capability ensuring execution and advice is of the highest standard. Deliver optimisation of revenue from new and existing clients through the use of the full range of appropriate placement channels and markets, delivering bespoke insurance solutions within tight timeframes.

• Inclusive and collaborative – works with M&A team members and producers of M&A business locally and across ROW, cognisant of local culture and capabilities working to identify and convert M&A business and cross sell.  Facilitates M&A initiatives, supporting Finex Group FINEX initiatives and innovation.

• Organisation design and development working with other CofE’s, other WTW offices and other LoBs to convert business and co-ordinate activities, including innovation and cross-selling initiatives  to better service prospect and clients.

• Reporting: Lead the preparation of regular / periodic updates, reports and analysis to assist M&A, Finex, LoB and CRB leadership.

• Client Relationship Management: Understand the clients’ business, structure and their insurance needs. Identify primary budget holders and decision makers within clients, establish and maintain active relationships with these people.

• Insurer relationships: Support and build strong relationships with underwriters/insurers in London and international markets

The Requirements

• Educated to a degree, or MBA level (or country equivalent) 

• Experience in M&A or Transactional Risk Insurance

• Experience in advising on mergers and acquisition

• Experience in business development, in particular in developing strong relationships and identifying and converting opportunities

• Project management experience and strong organizational skills

• Experience of working as part of a team

• Strong legal, broking, problem solving and analytical skills

• Good communication and negotiation skills

• Good business development skills

• Strong facilitation skills – inclusive, working as part of a team and collaborative 

• High levels of business and financial acumen with an understanding of company strategy 

• Skills in planning and budgeting

Equal Opportunity Employer