Casualty Portfolio Underwriter

5 months ago

Gloucester, United Kingdom The Benefact Group Full time

**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
- Pro-actively 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.

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