Senior Commercial Underwriter

Location: City of London
Type: Permanent
Salary: £45,000 to £55,000

An opportunity to grow your career with a successful and respected UK insurance company.

You will be a key member of the underwriting trading team, responsible for the effective and profitable delivery of the group trading strategy.

-Delivering planned financial results through the effective underwriting of existing cases/schemes.
-Demonstrating your contribution to loss ratio control by effectively adhering to Company's underwriting controls
-Building effective trading relationships with brokers through trading activity to be recognised as a positive trading partner, contributing to achievement of results.
-Identifying poorly performing accounts and investigating reasons for lack of retention and poor conversion.
-Contributing to the improvement of profitability by implementing actions agreed with brokers to improve account performance.
-Contributing to the development of colleagues by coaching and acting as a reference point to assist in decision making within empowerment, as appropriate.
-Producing timely and accurate analysis, report and other management information or documentation.
-Helping the team to achieve the budget through good underwriting management, risk control, business development and relationship building, which include:
-Assisting Company, Chief Underwriter and Department Manager for underwriting management, business development, training programmes, policy wordings, agency contract or other underwriting agreement drafting.
Requirements

·Have extensive experience in the UK commercial or property underwriting field
·Good connections in the market and broker community
·Ideally have achieved ACII accreditation.
·Have sound understanding of Financial Statements and Ratios
·Have good written and verbal communication skills
·Proficient with presentations and negotiations
·Willing to travel and meet with brokers and clients
·Have good interpersonal skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment
·Ability to effectively interact with all levels of internal departments including claims, finance, risk control, IT, etc.
·Good skills in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint), Outlook and Internet applications

Ref - 7239

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