Underwriting Assistant – London Wholesale Casualty London, England
Job description
At AXA XL we solve today’s complex risks to drive tomorrow’s innovation. We see our careers with AXA XL as a chance to unleash our potential globally. Cultivate expertise. Collaborate constantly. Analyse deeper. Dream bigger.
The primary purpose of the Underwriting Assistant role is to support and contribute effectively towards the maintenance, servicing, retention, and development of the existing Underwriting portfolio, whilst developing the necessary skillset to liaise with key internal and external stakeholders.
The role includes pre and post bind processes within the London Wholesale Underwriting business unit, providing accurate and efficient processing of accounts, with quality service levels, ensuring the end-to-end process is fully compliant in accordance with AXA XL guidelines.
You will be based in our newly refurbished London office; however, we are excited to be implementing our Smart Working initiative in the coming months offering a hybrid way of working, combining both remote and office working.
DISCOVER your opportunity
What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Assisting Underwriters in recording risk details on source systems; building broker relationships as required; developing knowledge of the class of business and the accounts written; retrieving data for Underwriters as requested, accurately and on time
- Liaise with underwriters to ensure correct interpretation of data for accuracy and completeness
- Maintain underwriting documentation/files; keeping all documentation in order
- Liaise with the Credit Control team - answering queries, tracking and monitoring premium using core underwriting systems.
- Work with and build relationships with Shared Services to respond to regular control and exception reports, including data entry and ensure adherence to common standards across the business. Primarily responsible for ensuring data is accurate to ensure timely service to Underwriters and Clients
- Work with underwriting team to develop requirements for statistical and insightful reports for Underwriting function
- Monitor renewal lists and co-ordinate as required
- Support delegated underwriting renewal process alongside underwriters, pricing, claims and governance
- Other ad-hoc duties and projects
You will report to the Operations Manager of London Wholesale, based in London.
SHARE your talent
We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
- Minimum A-level standard of education or equivilent
- Insurance related experience would be preferential
- High level of computer literacy – experience using Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Teams
- System data entry experience and processes would be beneficial
- Delegated Authority experience would be advantageous
- Effective and empathetic communicator
- Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a rational approach to complex data
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Excellent proactive organisational skills and ability to plan and prioritise their own work
FIND your future
AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.
How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.
With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.
Learn more at axaxl.com
Inclusion & Diversity
At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, and create an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.
Our enterprise I&D mission is to become the most inspiring company to work for. We’ll achieving this through our three areas of focus:
- Drive an Inclusive Culture—create a global workplace that works for everyone, with a culture that values all individuals, backgrounds and ideas, and where every colleague feels safe, valued and respected.
- Diversify Our Workforce—increase the representation of women in leadership, achieving 50% by 2023, and focus on underrepresented populations by region, positioning AXA XL as an employer of choice for all talent.
- Support Our Marketplace & Communities—support our communities and visibly and thoughtfully champion equity around the globe.
Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Corporate Responsibility
At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constantly seeking to provide innovative solutions to the world’s most complex problems. From offering our expertise, products and services to help build more resilient communities, to advancing understanding and response to climate change, our strategy – Our Impact. Our Future. – aligns key issues that are pertinent to our business – climate, water and financial resilience - and contributes to AXA Group’s purpose to “Act for human progress by protecting what matters.”.
- Climate: We’re reducing our carbon footprint, protecting ecosystems and exploring how our business can help build a better world.
- Water: We’re developing water resilience where it is — and will be — needed most.
- Financial resilience: We’re helping create opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, so they can be better prepared for unexpected changes.
- Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as our “Hearts in Action” programs.
For more information, please see the Corporate Responsibility section on our website
