Technical Underwriting Specialist

3 weeks ago


Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom Ecclesiastical Insurance Group Full time

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: Brighton (hybrid) 

Job ref: 202542

About the role

Ansvar, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Technical Underwriting Specialist to join our Brighton office on a hybrid basis. 

As a Technical Underwriting Specialist you will play a crucial role to the business in delivering business plan and achieving target underwriting quality and standards in line with underwriting strategy by developing and maintaining underwriting guides, procedures, technical training material to support delivery of the underwriting strategy.

Joining our rapidly expanding andinnovative Group presents a fantastic opportunity to develop your career andbecome an integral part of an inclusive, purpose-led organisation. 

Key responsibilities
  • Acting as a specialist referral point and coach, around procedures, policy wordings, reinsurance, underwriting guides and audit recommendations, supporting the business unit in ensuring that standards are met and technical expertise cascaded, meeting defined levels of service (SLAs)
  • Drafting and reviewing policy wordings, summaries of cover, application forms and clauses ensuring they comply with legal, reinsurance and regulatory parameters
  • Developing and reviewing products as required by the business including wordings, product development and governance.
  • Reviewing and developing free-format clauses drafted within the business
  • Researching issues connected with policy wording development and escalating wordings issues to the wider business
  • Working in partnership with Underwriting Operations to enable underwriting of quality business within appetite and individual UW licence
  • Understanding and operating within regulatory framework including ELTO, product oversight and governance, audit and DA management and identifying and escalating any risks to the business
  • Undertaking Underwriting Development projects
  • Conducting audits and acting as a quality and development representative for UW and reinsurance matters, liaising with all areas of the business and escalating risks as required
Knowledge, skills and experience
  • Proven track record and detailed knowledge of general insurance principles through reinsurance, underwriting or claims experience
  • Proven analysis skills and ability to submit balanced and well considered recommendations
  • Cert CII qualified 
What we offer
  • A competitive salary - let's discuss it
  • 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 are currently the UK’s 3rd largest corporate donor, having given away £200 million since 2016. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating aninclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of usfeels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with arange of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interestsand we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applicationsfrom everyone.

If you need any additional support during therecruitment process, then please let us know. 



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