Trainee Underwriter

**Trainee Underwriter**

We're looking for an Assistant Underwriter to join our organisation. It's an amazing chance to work with some leading industry talent whilst learning directly from them

You'll underwrite and service some of our existing accounts with the expertise of an experienced underwriter by your side.

Evaluating new business by using sensible and recognised underwriting practices. Using good judgement, along with your industry insight; to increase the financial performance of our company.

**Your Role**:

- Balancing new business, renewal, rating and adjustment enquiries from your clients. You also deal with claims cover requests, ensuring you align to our service standards.
- Targeted across a number of important metrics; clearly outlined and tangible during your performance year. One focus is maintaining a healthy renewal retention rate
- We know that you love a challenge and always rise to the test; especially when contacting brokers during renewal negotiations. Always searching for an opportunity to sell our product range.
- You'll speak with our accounts team to handle any financial queries that arise.
- Using proven analytical skills to provide statistics on some of your more difficult cases.
- Detect and assess risks that are considered both 'standard' and 'non-standard'.

**Your Skills, Experience and Qualifications**:

- You're aware of, if not already working towards your CII/ Dip CII qualification and educated to good A-Level standard or equivalent.
- Knowledge of underwriting and servicing accounts would be ideal
- You cleverly extract and piece together information from a broad range of different sources, highlighting your experience of client renewals and seeing business opportunities.
- With strong communication and social skills with clients and colleagues alike; you're also highly numerate.
- Your analytical, problem-solving approach coupled with initiative and dedicated attitude is a real key for success, and we love that.
- Motivated, ambitious and compassionate means that you slot in well to the team and provide a first class service to our clients.
- Experience of the motor insurance sector is ideal.

**What we offer you**:
We are passionately committed to the growth and development of our people, as well as our business. We are a motivated team, proven by our excellent employee engagement scores we offer not only 'on-the-job' training, but wide ranging support for industryqualifications, and continuous opportunities to achieve your career aspirations
- Hybrid working
- Holiday Allowance: 25 days plus UK Bank Holidays, increasing with service
- Income Protection: 50% of basic salary after 6 months absence due to illness or injury
- Life Assurance: 4x basic salary
- Health Screens:

- PMI: Employee Only. Can add Partner, Single Parent or Family cover at own cost
- Benefits Choice Portal: You can choose to purchase a wide range of additional benefits through the Benefits Choice portal. These additional benefits include:

- Additional Life Cover
- Childcare Vouchers
- Critical Illness Cover
- Group Income Protection
- Dental Insurance
- Season Ticket Loan
- Gym Membership
- Holiday
- Personal Travel Insurance
- There is the opportunity of an annual bonus
- You are entitled to participate in employee share ownership (discounted rate) after 3 months service.

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.