Technical Assistant - London, United Kingdom - Canopius

Canopius

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Role

We are looking for a Maths graduate to join the Property Treaty reinsurance underwriting team as a Technical Assistant with a planned career pathway to Underwriting.

Based in London, the team write close to $200m of income for US and International clients. This role would be to support the underwriting teams on both a technical and administrative basis as maternity cover.

We are looking for someone who continually strives for improvement to bringing greater administrative efficiency and to learn about the products that we underwrite.

This is an opportunity to work within an established, friendly and collaborative team environment where you will be supporting the underwriting team with administrative and some foundation underwriting tasks.

Responsibilities will include:

Assisting with all administrative duties for the team from beginning to end starting with the downloading of the broker submissions and modelling files until the end process when the business written is made live.
Managing all underwriting account file information
Ensuring information and documents are stored according to audit requirement
Liaising and coordinating with internal teams such as Credit Control, WNS (our inhouse data processing team), Catastrophe Modelling team & Underwriting Operations
Communicating with credit control monthly and investigating premium discrepancies
Assisting with the Peer Review process
Maintaining and updating team tracking spreadsheets for new and renewal accounts to ensure Underwriters can view the latest up to date account information.
Assisting with team meetings as and when required
Supporting underwriters administration fulfilments & assisting or chasing where appropriate
Assisting with online processes for our internal systems incl. Quopro, PBQA pre bind quality assurance, Sanctions and TOBA requests
Central contract point for onshore operations and WNS to maintain administration effectiveness

Skills and experience:

Degree in Maths
IT (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) literate to at least an intermediate level
Able to work both in a team environment and unsupervised on their own.
Good communication skills (written and verbal)
Organised, methodical, quick thinker
Willingness and desire to learn and develop
Demonstrable problem solving abilities.
Attention to detail and accuracy.
Sociable, approachable and presentable
Good time keeping and a willingness to respond to business seasons and increased workload pressures
Ability to work to deadlines and manage workload priorities effectively

_Our benefits_

We offer all employees a comprehensive benefits package that focuses on their whole wellbeing. This includes hybrid working, a competitive base salary, noncontributory pension, discretionary bonus, insurances including health (family) and dental cover, and many other benefits to enhance financial, physical, social and psychological health._

_About Canopius_

Canopius is a global specialty lines (re)insurer. We are one of the leading insurers in the Lloyd's of London insurance market with offices in the UK, US, Singapore, Australia and Bermuda._
At Canopius we foster a distinctive, positive culture which enables us to bring our whole selves to work to flourish as people, and build a business which delivers profitable, sustainable results._
Based in incredible new offices in the heart of the City of London, Canopius operates a flexible, hybrid working model and is committed to providing an environment that challenges employees to be their best and where everyone's unique contributions are recognised, valued and respected._
We are fully committed to equal employment opportunities for all applicants and providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are made regardless of age, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, religion or beliefs, marital or caring status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We encourage and welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds._
We make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and during employment. Please let us know if you require any information in an alternate format or any other reasonable adjustments._