Underwriting Assistant

General

Job Title : Underwriting Assistant

Division : Beazley Shared Services

Reports To : As per Beazley's organisation chart

Key Relationships : Underwriters, Brokers, Coverholders, other staff members and external clients and suppliers.

Job Summary : To assist the team in maintaining efficient underwriting processes and providing customer service to clients.

Who We Are

Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years' experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world.

Our mission is to provide Beautifully Designed Insurance, innovating to give our clients the maximum benefit with minimum hassle.

Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency;

covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

Our Culture

We employ over 1,500 people globally, hosting a wonderful diversity of cultures, experiences and backgrounds. We are proud of our unique culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that's low on policies & politics but big on collaboration, diversity & personal accountability.

Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our customers and people - 1) Be bold 2) Strive for better 3) Do the right thing.

Upholding these values every day enables us to become an innovative and responsive organisation, in touch with the changing world and marketplace around us.

We have set ambitious diversity & sustainability targets as we strive to better our business and the insurance industry as whole.

The rewards :

• The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, dynamic organization
• Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related annual bonus
• Competitively priced medical, dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life, and short- and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with 5% company match and immediate vesting
• 22 days annual PTO (full-time, prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), plus paid public holidays with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs.

Additional PTO purchase is available up to a maximum of 5 days per calendar year.

• Up to $700 reimbursement towards home office setup
• Free in-office lunch, travel reimbursement for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance in support of your wellbeing
• The opportunity to save for, and purchase, shares of Beazley stock
• Six months fully paid parental leave, regardless of how you come to parenthood
• Company paid sabbatical up to 12 weeks after 10 years of continued service
• Support with exam / study leave and fees for relevant qualifications related to furthering education
• Up to 2.5 days matched paid leave for volunteering at a charity of your choice and 5 days paid leave to provide or arrange care for a dependent with a long term care need annually
• Smart working policy and flexible working culture, trusting our employees to do what works best for them, their role and the needs of the business

Salary for this role will be tailored to the successful individual's location and experience. The expected compensation range for this position is $48,000.

00 - $58,000.00 per year plus discretionary annual bonus. You will be able to discuss your salary expectations should you be contacted about this role.

Responsibilities

Underwriting Support

• Support the Underwriters in the delivery of an effective and efficient administration service
• Provide pre-underwriting and rating support to Underwriters and other staff.
• Ensure timely and accurate data entry and scanning of risk documentation onto all Beazley systems within agreed service levels.

Specifically checking agreed % of risk entries as required.

• Data verification, integrity & accuracy.
• Photocopying, logging and scanning quotes and declinatures, filing, archiving and scanning.
• Interact with other teams within Beazley, ie Claims, Finance, Compliance, Management Services and other underwriting teams on matters affecting or related to accounts within the portfolio.
• Help maintain team standards through supporting other underwriting assistants in achieving their service / quality levels and targets, as required.

Reporting

• Provide accurate management information to senior management team and underwriters.
• Produce ad hoc reports, presentations and marketing literature for senior managers, underwriters and other members of staff as requested.

Broker / Client Interaction

• Provide a professional service to brokers in person, writing, email and telephone.
• Maintain and develop key relationships including brokers and external clients, responding to client queries in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Attend client meetings as required.

Person Specifications

Education and Qualifications

• Educated to 'A' level / High School graduate or equivalent
• Degree in any discipline - preferred but not essential

Skills and Abilities

• Accurate and numerate
• Computer skills - good working knowledge of MS Office, well developed spreadsheet skills
• Able to communicate effectively with others, both verbally and in writing
• Motivational skills, team worker as well as able to work on own initiative
• The ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise

Knowledge and Experience

• Proven administrative experience, preferably within the insurance or financial services sectors
• Proven background in accurate, high volume date entry
• Insurance experience advantageous

Aptitude and Disposition

• Outcome focused, self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic
• Professional approach to successfully interact with managers / colleagues / external suppliers

Competencies

• Achievement orientation
• Analytical thinking
• Information seeking
• Customer focus
• Team working
• Initiative
• Problem solving
• Detail orientated
• Time management
• Relationship building
• Communication skills
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