M&A Manager [UK or Malta based]

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M&A Manager [UK or Malta based]

Application Deadline: 22 August 2025

Department: Business Development

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK (London)

Description

M&A Manager

UK [London]

Malta [Birkirkara]

North America [New Hampshire]

Bermuda [Hamilton]

Hybrid, two days in office

Permanent / full-time

We are a fast-growing global reinsurance speciality company servicing the insurance markets of Lloyd's, Europe and North America.

We're now looking for a talented and driven M&A Manager to join our growing Business Development team and help deliver complex transactions across our global footprint, with an emphasis on the North American market.

As an M&A Manager, you will play a key leadership role in evaluating and executing M&A and reinsurance transactions. Reporting to the Group M&A Director, you will be responsible for managing multiple deals from initial contact through to completion - keeping all internal and external stakeholders aligned and engaged throughout the process.

Responsibilities
• Manage multiple M&A and structured reinsurance transactions from NDA to deal completion.
• Lead commercial due diligence.
• Coordinate cross-functional deal teams, including third-party advisers.
• Present due diligence findings and investment cases to the Executive Team and Board.
• Support transaction integration with internal operations teams for seamless handovers.
• Play a supporting role in deal origination.
• Mentor junior members of the M&A team to build internal capability and collaboration.

Candidate requirements

You're a confident deal-maker, with a strong grasp of financial analysis and the ability to lead multiple complex projects under tight timelines. You have:
• 5+ years of transactional experience in M&A - either as a buyside investor, adviser or in reinsurance underwriting.
• Strong understanding of deal dynamics, due diligence and valuation.
• Excellent modelling and Excel skills.
• Proven ability to engage and communicate with C-suite leaders and stakeholders - you will also have strong networking skills.
• A team-first mindset with excellent project management and interpersonal skills.
• Prior (re)insurance market experience is required.
• Contributing positively to our culture and values.

Benefits

Compre is a global speciality reinsurance company that offers capital and liability solutions to its clients, providing them with the certainty they need on their portfolios. We are known for being trusted partners to the market and for having a team of experts who collaborate and maintain discipline in underwriting, ensuring a differentiated client experience.

As an ambitious business, we are focused on building depth, breadth, and diversity in the talent across our business to be future-ready. Our clients' needs evolve as the market changes, which is why we continuously invest in areas such as data and technology. This way, we can serve current and future clients' needs with scalable and new technology, delivered by our growing agile Data and Technology team.

• Our values are what make us stand out. We value each other, empower and hold ourselves accountable, are authentic, collaborative and inclusive, and continuously strive for progress and innovation.

Why join us?

At Compre, we offer a range of benefits and team engagement events and provide a supportive environment for learning and growth. We are intent upon building a great business, and over the last few years, we have expanded our markets across Europe, Lloyd's, and North America. Our team is based in Bermuda, Finland, Germany, Malta, UK and the US.

To keep our globally dispersed team connected, we have various employee resource groups, including Wellbeing, DEI, COMMS and Engagement.

We invest in our people and offer learning and development opportunities for leaders and employees to build confidence and grow their skill sets. We value teamwork, authenticity, and innovation, and provide a space for these behaviours to bloom at Compre.

[UK]

Fulfil your potential in a collaborative environment with some of the best talent in the industry, while enjoying:
• competitive salary & annual bonus
• a health & wellbeing subsidy (GBP 20 per month) (from Day 1)
• a generous pension (eligible after probationary period)
• private healthcare from BUPA and a Healthcare Cash Plan from Medicash (from Day 1)
• life assurance (from Day 1)
• income protection (from Day 1)
• 25 days annual leave (from Day 1)
• cycle to work scheme (from Day 1)
• season ticket loan (interest free) (eligible after probationary period)
• electric vehicle scheme (eligible after probationary period)
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) (from Day 1)
• learning/study support and reimbursement for professional memberships
• hybrid working
• employee socials and recognition programme

[Malta]

Fulfil your potential in a collaborative environment with some of the best talent in the industry, while enjoying:
• competitive salary & annual bonus
• a health & wellbeing subsidy (equivalent to GBP 20 per month in local currency from Day 1)
• a generous pension with IVALIFE at 5% (eligible after probationary period)
• permanent health insurance (PHI) (subject to the rules of the scheme)
• Health Insurance hospital scheme via MAPFRE Middlesea (from Day 1)
• annual leave plus bank holidays (from Day 1)
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) (from Day 1)
• learning/study support and reimbursement for professional memberships
• hybrid working
• employee socials and recognition programme
• free onsite office parking