Airline Underwriter

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Starr Companies Full time

Starr Insurance Companies is a leading insurance and investment organization, providing commercial property and casualty insurance, including travel and accident coverage, to almost every imaginable business and industry in virtually every part of the world._
- Cornelius Vander Starr established his first insurance company in Shanghai, China in 1919. Today, we are one of the world’s fastest growing insurance organizations, capable of writing in 128 countries on 6 continents._

Roles and Responsibilities
- Underwrite profitable business for all sub lines of Airline Insurance in accordance with business plans
- Develop broker relationships and optimise opportunities for new business
- Explore client and company knowledge to identify and optimise cross-selling opportunities
- Global Business travel to service existing and prospective client base
- Ongoing engagement with brokers in order to preserve existing business and follow up on outstanding quotations.
- Adhere to all Starr underwriting standards as outlined in the Underwriting Manual.
- Obtain sign-off for all business that is in excess of agreed authority levels or where any factor falls below rating guidelines.
- Ensure that underwriting documentation, both paper and electronic, is accurate, complete, up-to-date and meets company standards.
- Ensure that the policy wordings and clauses are slip referenced and agreed.
- Ensure that all accounts are contract certain at the time of binding.
- Reconcile and report all premiums due versus received in order to manage credit control.
- Ensure that the file is complete and contains all relevant documents. Obtain any outstanding items from the broker or underwriter in readiness for Peer Review.
- Provide technical training to newly joining or less experienced members of the team.
- Delegate tasks for development purposes and provide appropriate support and supervision.
- Ensure that all accounts are contract certain.

Experience
- Good knowledge of class of business;
- Knowledge of Lloyd’s and London Market processing arrangements for premiums and claims;
- Up-to-date knowledge of claims to inform future underwriting decisions;
- Understanding of Business Plan.

**Skills**:

- Analytical and problem solving skills;
- Negotiation, judgment and decision making skills;
- Strong numeracy skills;
- Professional business writing and presentation skills;
- Strong communicator, both written and oral;
- Technical coaching;
- Business development; and
- Report writing.

Systems & IT
- Eclipse;
- Salesforce; and
- MS Office - Excel, Access, Word and Outlook.

**Qualifications**:

- Ongoing ACII accreditation.

Starr is an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We offer first class training and development opportunities to all employees. Our aim is to grow our own talent and bring out the best in people.

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