Underwriting Assistant-Open Market

Be bold. Strive for better. Do the right thing. At Beazley, we live our values in our day-to-day. We nurture curious people, value constructive challenge, and take a collaborate approach to problem solving. We celebrate progressive mindsets. If you are passionate about developing your career, come join the Beazley team!

We are actively seeking an Underwriting Assistant to join our Underwriting Claims Operations team in our Londonlocation. In this role, you will be responsible for assisting the underwriting team in maintaining efficient processes and providing excellent customer service to clients. You will play a key part in ensuring our underwriting and claims teams have the necessary tools to deliver maximum benefit to our customers.

If you are seeking an opportunity to join a friendly, collaborative, diverse and inclusive work environment in a position with fantastic growth potential, we urge you to read below to see how you can make an immediate impact at Beazley!

What you’ll do:

· Support underwriters in the delivery of an effective and efficient administration service.

· Provide pre-underwriting and rating support to underwriters and other staff, such as data entry and verification, ensuring accuracy of information.

· Produce ad hoc reports, presentations and marketing literature for senior managers, underwriters and other staff members.

· Maintain and develop key relationships with brokers and external clients, responding to client queries in an accurate and timely manner.

Skills and experience you’ll bring:

· High school graduate or equivalent

· Proven administrative experience, preferably within the insurance or financial sectors

· Experience and comfort with high volume data entry

· Good working knowledge of MS Office with well-developed spreadsheet skills

· Excellent communication skills, ability to work effectively as a part of a team, and a customer centric focus

The rewards:

· The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, global organization

· Attractive base compensation and discretionary annual performance related bonus

· Private medical insurance coverage for both you and your dependents

· Company paid life assurance and long term disability insurance

· Pension with 10% employer contribution, plus a further matched contribution up to 2.5%

· 25 days of annual leave (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), 11 paid holidays per year, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs

· Up to 2.5 days of charity leave for volunteering and up to 5 days carers leave to care for a dependent annually

· Up to £550 reimbursement for home office setup

· Free in-office lunch, travel allowance for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance

· Monthly travel allowance or annual season ticket

· The opportunity to save for, and purchase, shares of Beazley stock

· Six months fully paid parental leave

· Company paid sabbatical up to 12 weeks after 10 years of continued service

· Flexible working policy, trusting our employees to do what works best for them and their teams

Salary for this role will be tailored to the successful individual’s location and experience. You will be able to discuss your salary expectations should you be contacted about the role.

Don’t meet all the requirements? At Beazley we’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the job specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.

About us:

Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities, and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our products are wide ranging from cyber & tech to marine, healthcare, financial institutions, and contingency, covering risks like the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, diverse and inclusive work environment. We encourage applications from all backgrounds. We empower people to choose where to work given the work that needs to be done. Collaboration in office spaces is important but we do not mandate a set number of days in the office or from home – you decide what works best for you and the role you are in.

We have a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds at Beazley with over 2,000 of us working around the world. Employee’s diversity, experience and passion allow us to keep innovating and moving forward, delivering the best. We hire people with wide perspectives, and we have set bold diversity targets as we work towards excellence.