Underwriting Business Partner - Casualty
Department: Operations
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: London, UK
Description
The Underwriting Operations function sits within the Convex Group Operations function. The function is responsible for delivery of support services to all underwriting teams outside the United States. The Underwriting Operations function within Convex is a blend of Convex employees and those of Convex’s strategic outsourcing partners.
The Underwriting Business Partner - Casualty, is responsible for working closely with the Head of Casualty to oversee operational activity within this business group in order to ensure efficient operations and maximise the amount of time underwriters spend on key activities.
In this role, you act as a conduit for projects and best practices, champion technology solutions to reduce administrative tasks and drive the approval of new products. Additionally, you maintain a centralised portfolio tracker to facilitate collaborative and strategic engagement across each of the Business Groups.
You will play a pivotal role in implementing changes which impact underwriting teams and managing the operational aspects of the underwriting portfolio by acting as a liaison between underwriting and other business operations.
Key Responsibilities
* Coordinate and prioritise operational resources in order to ensure that activities required to support the Casualty Business Group are undertaken efficiently.
* Escalate issues and challenges faced by the Casualty Business Group through the appropriate channels and ensure resolution.
* Champion the use of technology and data and identify opportunities where these can be leveraged in order to improve the operational efficiency of the Business Group.
* Represent insurance underwriting in projects, sense-checking project scopes, provide subject matter expertise and ensuring change leads are engaged with underwriting teams throughout project delivery.
* Engage with the development of the Casualty Business Group underwriting strategy and ensure operational capability exists to support execution.
* Ensuring underwriting teams have visibility of ongoing projects and highlight specific areas of impact or where underwriting engagement is required.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
* Demonstrable track record within the London insurance market with experience gained in underwriting operations or in a projects and change role, ideally related to or having included exposure to underwriting, or underwriting operations.
* Understanding of Casualty Insurance, from an operations perspective would be useful.
* Strategic and collaborative thinking, expressed in an ability to visualise what doesn't exist, identify gaps and navigate delivery of results via collaboration with other colleagues and teams.
* Good verbal and written communication skills which includes evidence of being able to deal successfully with demanding stakeholders and build productive relationships at varying levels of seniority
* Able to use good discretion in working to resolve process issues that ensure the success of our established global outsourcing models.
* Robust quantitative and qualitative analysis skills which includes working knowledge of financial and risk analysis.
* Self-starter with a proven ability to identify practical solutions and solve problems.
* Ability to work flexibly in order to complete duties of the role, particularly during peak underwriting periods.
Benefits
* Competitive Salary
* 30 days Annual Leave
* Birthday Leave
* 10% Employer Pension Contribution
* Private Health Insurance Medical Cover
* Group Income Protection
* Life Assurance Cover
* Enhanced Parental Leave
* Annual Health Check
* 3 days of Volunteer Leave each year
* 10 days of help with care (elder/ childcare) through Bright Horizons
* £1,300 to spend on learning & wellbeing
* Give as You Earn
* Cycle to Work
* Season Ticket Loan
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