Senior Underwriter

2 weeks ago

Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom Benefact Group Full time

**Working hours**:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

**Duration**:Permanent

**Location**:Brighton (hybrid)

**Job ref**:201863

**About the role***:
**Ansvar**, who are proudly part of **Benefact Group**, are looking for a **Senior Underwriter** to join our team.

Ansvar are a specialist insurer based in the South East, our core niches are Charity and Faith, however we also have several commercial products such as Property Owners and Care where we see growth opportunities

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing business as we have achieved double digit growth over the past two years.

**Key responsibilities**
***:

- Develop, negotiate and profitably underwrite new/existing business within own authority and in line with Ansvar strategy
- Provide embedded underwriting support at partner and customer sites if required.
- Plan, prioritise and manage individual work to deliver agreed objectives and meet SLA’s to deliver exceptional customer service.
- Act as referral point for the team providing coaching, training in an appropriate time frame
- Use the appropriate method of communication (telephone, face to face) to support Ansvar’s right first time approach in order to maintain successful Internal and External relationships.
- Act on individual audit results and agreed action plans within agreed deadlines to improve own performance
- Understand and operate within regulatory framework and identify and escalate any risks to the business.
- Conduct audits and provide feedback, coaching and training as appropriate
- Manage a defined caseload
- Actively expand personal technical and niche knowledge both informally (networking internally and externally, internet, industry press) and formally (In-house training, CII, CPD)

**Knowledge, skills and experience**
***:

- Commercial Insurance experience - Market, Industry and Company knowledge
- Qualified Dip CII or commitment to achieve within an agreed timescale
- Experience underwriting large, complex risks with premiums over £10,000
- Appropriate IT skills
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Experience of acting as a coach within a commercial environment
- Experience of effective stakeholder management within a commercial environment

**What we offer**
***:

- A competitive salary - let's discuss it
- Flexible working
- Competitive Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
- Annual Bonus scheme up to 24%
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- A holiday buy and sell scheme
- An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance

**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 £200 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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