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Underwriting Assistant - Digital
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Beazley
General Job Title: Underwriting Assistant
Division: Beazley Digital
Reports To: As per Beazley’s organisation chart
Key Relationships: Underwriters, Brokers, Coverholders, other staff members and external clients and suppliers.
Job Summary: To assist the team in maintaining efficient underwriting processes and providing customer service to clients.
Who We Are Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to provide Beautifully Designed Insurance, innovating to give our clients the maximum benefit with minimum hassle.
Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.
Our Culture We employ over 1,500 people globally, hosting a wonderful diversity of cultures, experiences and backgrounds. We are proud of our unique culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that’s low on policies & politics but big on collaboration, diversity & personal accountability.
Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our customers and people - 1) Be bold 2) Strive for better 3) Do the right thing. Upholding these values every day enables us to become an innovative and responsive organisation, in touch with the changing world and marketplace around us. We have set ambitious diversity & sustainability targets as we strive to better our business and the insurance industry as whole.
Key Responsibilities Underwriting Support
Support the Underwriters in the delivery of an effective and efficient administration service
Provide pre-underwriting and rating support to Underwriters and other staff.
Ensure timely and accurate data entry and scanning of risk documentation onto all Beazley systems within agreed service levels. Specifically checking agreed % of risk entries as required.
Data verification, integrity & accuracy.
Photocopying, logging and scanning quotes and declinatures, filing, archiving and scanning.
Interact with other teams within Beazley, i.e. Claims, Finance, Compliance, Management Services and other underwriting teams on matters affecting or related to accounts within the portfolio.
Help maintain team standards through supporting other underwriting assistants in achieving their service/quality levels and targets, as required.
Reporting
Provide accurate management information to senior management team and underwriters.
Produce ad hoc reports, presentations and marketing literature for senior managers, underwriters and other members of staff as requested.
Broker/Client Interaction
Provide a professional service to brokers in person, writing, email and telephone.
Maintain and develop key relationships including brokers and external clients, responding to client queries in an accurate and timely fashion.
Attend client meetings as required.
Personal Specification Skills and Abilities
Accurate and numerate
Computer skills – good working knowledge of MS Office, well developed spreadsheet skills
Able to communicate effectively with others, both verbally and in writing
Motivational skills, team worker as well as able to work on own initiative
The ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise
Knowledge and Experience
Proven administrative experience, preferably within the insurance or financial services sectors
Proven background in accurate, high volume date entry
Insurance experience advantageous
Aptitude and Disposition
Outcome focussed, self‑motivated, flexible and enthusiastic
Professional approach to successfully interact with managers/colleagues/external suppliers
Competencies
Achievement orientation
Analytical thinking
Information seeking
Customer focus
Team working
Initiative
Problem solving
Detail oriented
Time management
Relationship building
Communication skills
The Rewards
The opportunity to connect and build long‑lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, dynamic organization
Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related bonus
Competitively priced medical, dental and vision insurance
Company‑paid life, and short‑ and long‑term disability insurance
401(k) plan with 5% company match and immediate vesting
22 days PTO (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), 11 paid holidays per year, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs
Up to $700 reimbursement for home office setup
Free in‑office lunch, travel reimbursement for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance
Up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave
Up to 2.5 days paid annually for volunteering at a charity of your choice
Flexible working policy, trusting our employees to do what works best for them and their teams
Salary for this role will be tailored to the successful individual’s location and experience. The expected compensation range for this position is $50,000-$55,000 per year plus discretionary annual bonus.
Don’t meet all the requirements? At Beazley we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the job specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.
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Underwriting Assistant - Digital
role at
Beazley
General Job Title: Underwriting Assistant
Division: Beazley Digital
Reports To: As per Beazley’s organisation chart
Key Relationships: Underwriters, Brokers, Coverholders, other staff members and external clients and suppliers.
Job Summary: To assist the team in maintaining efficient underwriting processes and providing customer service to clients.
Who We Are Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to provide Beautifully Designed Insurance, innovating to give our clients the maximum benefit with minimum hassle.
Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.
Our Culture We employ over 1,500 people globally, hosting a wonderful diversity of cultures, experiences and backgrounds. We are proud of our unique culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that’s low on policies & politics but big on collaboration, diversity & personal accountability.
Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our customers and people - 1) Be bold 2) Strive for better 3) Do the right thing. Upholding these values every day enables us to become an innovative and responsive organisation, in touch with the changing world and marketplace around us. We have set ambitious diversity & sustainability targets as we strive to better our business and the insurance industry as whole.
Key Responsibilities Underwriting Support
Support the Underwriters in the delivery of an effective and efficient administration service
Provide pre-underwriting and rating support to Underwriters and other staff.
Ensure timely and accurate data entry and scanning of risk documentation onto all Beazley systems within agreed service levels. Specifically checking agreed % of risk entries as required.
Data verification, integrity & accuracy.
Photocopying, logging and scanning quotes and declinatures, filing, archiving and scanning.
Interact with other teams within Beazley, i.e. Claims, Finance, Compliance, Management Services and other underwriting teams on matters affecting or related to accounts within the portfolio.
Help maintain team standards through supporting other underwriting assistants in achieving their service/quality levels and targets, as required.
Reporting
Provide accurate management information to senior management team and underwriters.
Produce ad hoc reports, presentations and marketing literature for senior managers, underwriters and other members of staff as requested.
Broker/Client Interaction
Provide a professional service to brokers in person, writing, email and telephone.
Maintain and develop key relationships including brokers and external clients, responding to client queries in an accurate and timely fashion.
Attend client meetings as required.
Personal Specification Skills and Abilities
Accurate and numerate
Computer skills – good working knowledge of MS Office, well developed spreadsheet skills
Able to communicate effectively with others, both verbally and in writing
Motivational skills, team worker as well as able to work on own initiative
The ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise
Knowledge and Experience
Proven administrative experience, preferably within the insurance or financial services sectors
Proven background in accurate, high volume date entry
Insurance experience advantageous
Aptitude and Disposition
Outcome focussed, self‑motivated, flexible and enthusiastic
Professional approach to successfully interact with managers/colleagues/external suppliers
Competencies
Achievement orientation
Analytical thinking
Information seeking
Customer focus
Team working
Initiative
Problem solving
Detail oriented
Time management
Relationship building
Communication skills
The Rewards
The opportunity to connect and build long‑lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, dynamic organization
Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related bonus
Competitively priced medical, dental and vision insurance
Company‑paid life, and short‑ and long‑term disability insurance
401(k) plan with 5% company match and immediate vesting
22 days PTO (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), 11 paid holidays per year, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs
Up to $700 reimbursement for home office setup
Free in‑office lunch, travel reimbursement for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance
Up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave
Up to 2.5 days paid annually for volunteering at a charity of your choice
Flexible working policy, trusting our employees to do what works best for them and their teams
Salary for this role will be tailored to the successful individual’s location and experience. The expected compensation range for this position is $50,000-$55,000 per year plus discretionary annual bonus.
Don’t meet all the requirements? At Beazley we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the job specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.
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