Job Description

General:
Job Title: Underwriting Assistant
Division: Beazley Shared Services
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.
Key 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.

General
At Beazley we are committed to doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do. It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to this principle through adoption of Beazley's core values and behaviours - PIED and Being Beazley.

• Adopt the Beazley culture of Professionalism, Integrity, Effectiveness and Dynamic that contributes to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers.
• Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct which incorporates the PRA and FCA Conduct Rules. Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, Talent Management or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system.
• Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.
• Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.
• Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, talent management or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. This may include, amongst others, Beazley's underwriting control standards, Beazley's claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.
• Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system. These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.

Essential Criteria

• Experience within underwriting operations
• Advanced Excel skills

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 bonus
• Provident medical, dental and vision cover
• Company paid life, and short- and long-term disability insurance
• Retirement plan with 10% employer contribution
• 22 days PTO (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), 11 paid holidays per year, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs
• Up to $700 reimbursement for home office setup (permanent employees only)
• Lunch allowance, travel reimbursement for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance
• Up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Up to 2.5 days paid annually for volunteering at a charity of your choice
• Flexible working policy, trusting our employees to do what works best for them and their teams

All benefits will be subject to eligibility and policy rules and provider terms and conditions.
Beazley reserves the right to vary or withdraw benefits described in this document, except as required by law.

Skills Required