Job description
Role: Underwriting Assistant - Political Violence
Location: London
Position type: Full time, permanent
Our Underwriting Assistants are at the heart of everything we do, without them our business wouldn’t function.
The Underwriting Assistant is an active member of the underwriting team, ensuring that the day to day underwriting activities, including data management are managed smoothly and within the required regulatory frames and parameters.
About The Job
What you’ll spend your time doing:
- Assist underwriters at the box
- Actively seek out new opportunities to develop new and existing client relationships that will meet the strategic drivers of MS Amlin
- Beginning to demonstrate a good understanding of the clients and the market in which they operate
- Set up references for new & renewal accounts.
- Remain alert to developments affecting the business of the class. Escalate such matters, as appropriate, to the Senior Underwriters or Underwriting Management
- Make sure all risks are actioned accordingly in S2000 and manage deal flow tracker file which records all offers and our response (written & signed, NTU, declined)
- Act as Team Data Steward working closely with other areas of the business
- Assist late payment reports/ EPI queries (Credit Controllers) & data fitness reports (Compliance).
- Liaise with various internal teams including actuarial and modelling team regarding pricing.
- Manage all queries in a professional and efficient manner
- Accuracy checking & write up notes before UW sign-off.
- Participate in the monitoring of premium payments and liaise with Brokers and CRT where necessary
You’re going to enjoy this job if you also…
- Have high attention to detail and accuracy
- Are a strong problem solver
What you’ll need:
- Demonstrate developed skills in numeracy, marketing risk and language
- Excellent communication skills
- Self-motivation & strong organisational skills
What you can expect from us:
A competitive salary and benefits package is a given, but you can also expect:
- A great team and supportive colleagues
- An open mind (especially to new ideas and ways of doing things)
- A strong focus on diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities
- A programme of wellbeing and mental health support
- Employer-supported volunteering (ESV)
- Flexible working
- Continuous learning
- Study support
- Structured career development
About Ms Amlin
MS Amlin is part of a global top-10 insurance group, MS&AD. We’re made up of four distinct businesses covering global reinsurance, Lloyds franchise, local specialty insurer, and business services.
Conduct Rules
With the implementation of the SM&CR (Senior Managers & Certification Regime), the Financial Services and Markets Act gave the FCA new powers to write conduct rules and apply them to all employees within a firm. The Conduct Rules set basic standards of good personal conduct. They stipulate that you must:
- Act with integrity
- Act with due care, skill and diligence
- Be open and co-operative with the FCA, PRA and other regulators
- Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
- Observe proper standards of market conduct
#LI-MSAUL