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Job Title: Underwriting Assistant (French speaking)

Division: Underwriting Operations

Reports To: As per Beazley Org Structure

Key Relationships: Underwriters, Brokers, Underwriting Assistants, UCO, and external clients and suppliers.

Job Summary

To assist the team in maintaining efficient underwriting operations processes and providing

customer service to clients.

Objective of the Role

• To provide support and assistance to Underwriters by submission triage, reviewing new and renewal business, including quoting, rating, binding, and issuance support
• To manage account activities throughout the underwriting process
• To provide effective reporting on account portfolio
• To establish good internal and external relationships with clients and stakeholders
  
  

Key Responsibilities

Underwriting Support

• Entering / updating policy information in the policy admin system
• Gather information for new business and renewal quoting
• Liaise with Broker queries
• Prepare quote and rating tools for the Underwriter
• Data verification to ensure integrity and accuracy
• Produce quote documentation
• Photocopying, logging, scanning quotes and declinatures, filing as required
• Assist with risk analysis, consistent with underwriting guidelines
• Confirm pricing and binding conditions are met
• Issue new and renewal quotes, binders, and policies within company guidelines
• Handle midterm account management activities
• Interact with other teams at Beazley on matters affecting or related to accounts within the portfolio
• Attend underwriting training and meetings as appropriate
• Produce reports on accounts portfolio
• Help maintain team standards through supporting other underwriting assistants in achieving their service/quality levels and targets as required
• Prepare, generate and issue policy documents as required
• Oversee the process for administering mid-term adjustments as required
• Comply with all legal and regulatory requirements to ensure obligations are met
• Tax data entry into relevant systems if applicable to product line and region, as required
• London based UAs should be prepared to attend to box at Lloyds periodically to support Underwriters
• Support the underwriters and team leader as required
• Participate in ad-hoc project work periodically
  
  

Broker/Client Interaction

• Provide professional service to brokers via email, telephone, and face to face
• Serve as the first point of contact for customer inquiries during the account life cycle
• Maintain and develop key relationships by responding to all client queries in a timely and accurate manner
  
  

Personal Specification

This role requires someone result focused, self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic. This role would be ideal for somebody with a professional approach to interact successfully with other clients, building relationships and an ability to negotiate with both internal and external parties.

Skills And Abilities

• Fluency in English and French
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
• Accurate and numerate
• Computer skills - good working knowledge of MS Office
• Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail
• Effective communication skills (written, verbal, active listening)
• Ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritize
• Capable and comfortable with high percentage of daily activities requiring data entry
  
  

Knowledge and Experience

• Proven administrative experience, preferably within the insurance or financial services sectors
• Proven background in accurate, high volume data entry
• Underwriting Assistant experience is advantageous
  
  

Competencies

• Achievement drive
• Analytical thinking
• Information seeking
• Customer focus
• Initiative
• Collaborative
• Problem solving
• Detail oriented
• Team working
• Time management
• Relationship development
• Effective communication
  
  

Aptitude and Disposition

• Result/outcome focused, self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic
• Professional approach to interact successfully with managers/colleagues/external suppliers
• Values continuous personal and professional development
  
  

Who We Are

Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to inspire our clients and people with the confidence and freedom to explore, create and build - to enable businesses to thrive. Our clients want to live and work freely and fully, knowing they are benefitting from the most advanced thinking in the insurance market. Our goal is to become the highest performing sustainable specialist insurer.

Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

Our Culture

We employ over 1,500 people globally, hosting a wonderful diversity of cultures, experiences and backgrounds. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that is big on collaboration, diversity of thought and personal accountability.

Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people and customers.

• Be bold
• Strive for better
• Do the right thing
  
  

Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organization in touch with the changing world around us - our ambitious inclusion & diversity and sustainability targets are testament to this.

We are proud to offer a flexible working environment, where our employees are able to work from the location that they consider most appropriate for the tasks they are undertaking. There will still be a requirement to attend the office based on business need, but our people are empowered to work with their teams to establish a model that works well for the individuals and for stakeholders.

Explore a variety of networks to assist with professional and/or personal development. Our Employee Networks include:

• Beazley RACE - Including, understanding and celebrating People of Colour
• Beazley SHE - Successful, High potential, Empowered women in insurance
• Beazley Proud - Our global LGBTQ+ community
• Beazley Wellbeing - Supporting employees with their mental wellbeing
• Beazley Families - Supporting families and parents-to-be
  
  

We Encourage Internal Career Progression At Beazley, Giving You All The Tools You Need To Drive Your Own Career Here, Such As:

• Internal Pathways (helping you grow into an underwriting role)
• iLearn (our own learning & development platform)
• LinkedIn Learning
• Mentorship program
• External qualification sponsorship
• Continuing education and tuition reimbursement
• Secondment assignments
• Beazley SHE - Successful, High potential, Empowered women in insurance
• Beazley Proud - Our global LGBTQ+ community
  
  

As a Beazley Employee, You Are Provided Access To Our Fantastic Array Of Benefits. We Are Committed To Offering Employees And Their Families a Comprehensive Benefits Package. Examples Of Some Of Our Benefits Include:

• Lifestyle allowance
• Commuting reimbursement
• Free in-office lunch, daily
• Six months parental leave
• Sabbatical (after 10 years of service)
• Retirement plan matching (varies by country)
  
  

Responsabilidades

Underwriting Support

• Support the Underwriters in the delivery of an effective and efficient administration service
• Provide pre-underwriting and rating support to Underwriters and other staff.
• Ensure timely and accurate data entry and scanning of risk documentation onto all Beazley systems within agreed service levels. Specifically checking agreed % of risk entries as required.
• Data verification, integrity & accuracy.
• Photocopying, logging and scanning quotes and declinatures, filing, archiving and scanning.
• Interact with other teams within Beazley, ie Claims, Finance, Compliance, Management Services and other underwriting teams on matters affecting or related to accounts within the portfolio.
• Help maintain team standards through supporting other underwriting assistants in achieving their service/quality levels and targets, as required.
  
  

Reporting

• Provide accurate management information to senior management team and underwriters.
• Produce ad hoc reports, presentations and marketing literature for senior managers, underwriters and other members of staff as requested.
  
  

Broker/Client Interaction

• Provide a professional service to brokers in person, writing, email and telephone.
• Maintain and develop key relationships including brokers and external clients, responding to client queries in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Attend client meetings as required.
  
  

Cualificaciones

Education And Qualifications

• Educated to ‘A’ level/High School graduate or equivalent
• Degree in any discipline - preferred but not essential
  
  

Skills And Abilities

• Accurate and numerate
• Computer skills - good working knowledge of MS Office, well developed spreadsheet skills
• Able to communicate effectively with others, both verbally and in writing
• Motivational skills, team worker as well as able to work on own initiative
• The ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise
  
  

Knowledge And Experience

• Proven administrative experience, preferably within the insurance or financial services sectors
• Proven background in accurate, high volume date entry
• Insurance experience advantageous
  
  

Aptitude and Disposition

• Outcome focused, self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic
• Professional approach to successfully interact with managers/colleagues/external suppliers
  
  

Competencies

• Achievement orientation
• Analytical thinking
• Information seeking
• Customer focus
• Team working
• Initiative
• Problem solving
• Detail orientated
• Time management
• Relationship building
• Communication skills