Underwriting Support - Commercial Insurance

The Role:

We are looking for someone to provide Underwriting Support and administration, providing agreed levels of customer service to brokers and colleagues and to develop a broad understanding of commercial underwriting skills.

Responsibilities:

• Preparing New Business enquiries prior to submission to underwriters
• Reviewing completed quotation requests and providing feedback to brokers and underwriters as necessary
• Liaising with brokers in terms of coverage and pricing
• Dealing with background checks, payment by instalment enquiries, updating policies records
• Assisting with claims enquiries
• Answering phone calls and assisting with enquiries
• Carrying out Sanction Search checks
• Administration of Premium Credit instalment requirements
• Managing own workload of New and Existing Business cases as well as mid-term adjustments subject to agreed levels of authority
• Assisting with general administration as required
• Adherence to compliance and regulatory procedures

Experience:

Demonstrates a general understanding of the subject and can apply things learned under supervision
Demonstrates a full understanding of the subject and can apply things learned subject to authority levels and referral procedures.

Further information

As well as a competitive salary we offer the following benefits -

• Competitive holiday allowance with the annual option to buy additional days
• Death in Service benefit of x4 salary
• Company pension scheme
• Very generous maternity and paternity leave packages
• A flexible benefits package which allows you to add additional benefits to your overall package
• Our benefits portal offers discounts on technology & electronics, cinemas, restaurants, days out, mortgage advice, travel and many more
• Referral schemes
• Discounted rates on PIB products
• We offer a first-class employee benefits and welfare package to support our employees with financial management, cycle to work scheme, counselling support, health screening, will writing, menopause support, books, stopping smoking and much more
• If supporting the local community, engaging with charities and having the opportunity to ‘give something back’ interests you, you have the opportunity to take an extra day to support this with a Volunteering day
• We also offer a wide range of discounts including a kids pass – giving you discount to over 4500 attractions and activities, discounts at hairdressers and beauticians, climate change projects with lots of other options to choose
• PIB has a comprehensive learning & development framework, including professional study options and apprenticeships which are available to all employees, and which will support your career development
• Being a part of our PIB Community Trust, we support fundraising where you can apply for grants from PIB Group towards your chosen charity
• PIB Group are committed to improving their environmental impact in a responsible way. From the individual actions that our colleagues take every day through to installing the right facilities across our premises, there are many measures in place to help reduce PIB’s carbon footprint.

We are proud of our success and growth and have been recognised for many industry awards across our business. If you wish to work for a company that truly puts people at the heart of their organisation, then we would love to hear from you. PIB operates a flexible working policy, and our management teams will talk to you about how that would meet both your flexible working needs and those of the business and role you are applying for. We would love to hear from you if you want to hear more about opportunities in PIB.

We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

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