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SalaryTime Type: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
Underwriting Assistant -Casualty/Life Science
We are hiring - your career at QBE, let's make it happen!
We have an Underwriting Assistant role joining our Life Science team, in our London office, 30 Fenchurch Street.
As an Underwriting Assistant you will play a crucial role in providing technical and administrative support to our underwriting team. Your responsibilities will include ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, maintaining accurate underwriting data, and contributing to the overall efficiency of the underwriting process.
With hybrid office working and excellent benefits including 30 days holiday, you will be working in a supportive, inclusive, and collaborative environment. We're the down-to-earth, international insurer that is neither too big nor small, so you can make a real impact!
Your new role
- Assisting our Underwriters by providing information and support to allow them to negotiate rates, terms, and conditions for new and existing business.
- Building and developing strong relationships with your stakeholders, including Underwriters and other members of the wider team.
- Being aware of the annual business plan and its context so that you can make decisions and prioritise appropriately.
- Positively promote the department, division, and company to maximise brand leverage.
- Adhere to underwriting standards, legal requirements and good practice to minimise risk and maximise efficiency.
- Keep abreast of market trends and demonstrate market cycle awareness
- Strong organisation skills with the ability to work to deadlines.
- Good at analysing data and intermediate skills using Excel.
- A team player with great communication skills.
- Accuracy and attention to detail.
- The desire to learn and grow in your new role.
- Flexible approach and ability to recognise and adapt to changing business requirements.
- Experience in or knowledge of insurance or in another regulated environment would be great but it's not essential!
- Basic understanding of class specific underwriting knowledge
- Good Knowledge of underwriting systems
At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that's why we have created At My Best". It's our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn't fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage. That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It's in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people. Everything we do is underpinned by our QBE DNA - because we know it's not just what we do that matters, it's how we do it that makes the difference. In addition to this, we also offer flexible parental leave for both parents and have several employee network groups that support and empower our diverse workforce.
At QBE, we view our people as our most precious asset. We understand the importance of fostering a work environment that is responsive to the changing needs of today's workforce. QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation ( https://careers/flex-qbe/) .
Some of the award's QBE are proud to have won, been a finalist for, and shortlisted for include;
5-star Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DEI) awards, 2023 Winner - Insurance Business Canada
Employer of the Year 2022Winner - Insurance Insider
British Claims Awards 2022 Winner - InsurTech Award
Insurance Times Claims Excellence Awards 2022 Winner - Claims Product Solution of the Year
Working Families Best Practice Awards 2021 Finalist for: Best COVID-19 Response
Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2022 Shortlisted for: Best Customer Care, Diversity & Inclusion Initiative of the Year 2022, Specialist Insurer of the Year (for Construction), General Insurer of the Year
We are proud to have partnerships with organisations such as Stonewall and Working Families, and our commitment to the Women in Finance Charter, the UN Women's Empowerment Principles and Race at Work charter helps keep us accountable and transparent
Inclusion of Diversity
We are striving to create a workplace culture where all our people feel included, and we are committed to building a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we operate in.
We know that diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision making, improves the quality of our delivery and helps us to meet the needs of our customers.
ESG & Sustainability
At QBE, we believe that integrating sustainability into our business helps us deliver on our purpose of enabling a more resilient future. Our three key focus areas include fostering an orderly and inclusive transition to a net-zero economy, enabling a sustainable and resilient workforce and partnering for growth through innovative, sustainable and impactful solutions. For further information regarding QBE's sustainability targets, including our net-zero pledges and inclusion of diversity targets, and our award-winning impact investment initiative 'Premiums4Good', please visit our Sustainability homepage and read our latest Sustainability Report ( Link ).
About QBE
We can never really predict what's around the corner, but at QBE we're asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.
We're an international insurer that's building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.
And our people will be at the centre of our success. We're proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.
With more than more than 11,000 people working across 27 countries, we're big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.
We believe this is our moment - what if it was yours too?
Your career at QBE - let's make it happen!
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