Casualty Portfolio Underwriter - Gloucester, United Kingdom - The Benefact Group

The Benefact Group

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Gloucester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Working hours:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration:
Permanent

Location:
Gloucester

Job ref:200997

About the role:

We are looking for a Casualty Portfolio Underwriter to join our Gloucester based team.

Key responsibilities
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Support the profitable development of the Account and delivery of the UK General Insurance Plan
Support the team in portfolio analysis tasks to aid the understanding of Account performance
Proactively identify areas of opportunity and issue in relation to technical underwriting matters
Working towards acting as a technical referral point for the Line of Business
Develop updated underwriting risk appetite material, underwriting guides, pricing, wordings and other technical literature as required for the Line of Business
Support the development of training material for the GI Academy, working with the Underwriting Performance Team
Support the delivery of work items relating to pricing reviews as required
Support UKGI business units in developing and enhancing relationships with brokers, customers and business partners to act as a specialist, demonstrating Ecclesiastical's Line of Business knowledge and expertise
Support the delivery of work items required to assist reserving practices and financial reporting for the account
Help to ensure underwriting quality is in line with underwriting strategy by highlighting areas of concern, working with the Underwriting Performance Team
Support defined pieces of work end to end within agreed timescales
Managing and prioritising own workload effectively
Keep up to date with market conditions, practice and legislation
Understand and operate within regulatory framework and identify and escalate any risks to the business

Knowledge, skills and experience
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Proven technical underwriting knowledge within commercial insurance
Minimum CII with commitment to advance (company support provided)
Practical experience of the ability to quickly implement new initiatives
Microsoft Excel proficient
Some experience in portfolio management desirable, but not essential

What we offer:

A competitive salary let's discuss it
Flexible working
Group Personal Pension up to 12% employer contribution
Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%

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25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
Up to £300 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
Employee Assistance Programme
Full study support to gain professional qualifications

About us:

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and currently the 3rd largest corporate donor in the country, having given away over £187 million since 2016. We have an ambitious plan to become the number one corporate donor with strategic objectives in place to double the groups size over the next five years.

We believe it's essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people offer career opportunities and personal development through a fantastic learning and career framework.

Luckily for us, the nature of who we are - our giving ethos, our 135 year history and the diversity of what we do - has built a culture of kindness, of great ambition, of passionate people driven to do better and be better.