Sme Professional Indemnity Underwriter

1 week ago

Sydney, Australia Allianz Australia Full time

**SME Professional Indemnity Underwriter | Flexible
- Sydney Preferable**
- Newly created Professional Indemnity Underwriter role in our SME Commercial team
- Play a key role in the development of newly established, growing National SME PI team.
- Join a global firm opening multiple future career pathways to you.

**Want to know how it feels to be genuinely supported to grow and develop your career?**

As part of our exciting growth in the SME Market Segment, Allianz have created opportunities to join our SME Underwriting team as a Professional Indemnity Underwriter where you will be responsible for providing a high level of underwriting service to our broker partners and work collaboratively with our broader underwriting and distribution teams to ensure appropriate underwriting decisions are made.

**You'll be responsible for**:

- Underwriting Professional Indemnity risks for SME customers, adhering to underwriting guidelines and standards;
- Manage new business requests, renewal management and policy maintenance.
- Work closely with both the management team and the broader business, you will ensure that tasks are managed according to agreed service standard;
- Maximise retention of preferred accounts and review renewal and new business in conjunction with internal and external stakeholder requirements;
- Underwrite insurance risks in area of responsibility, adhering to underwriting guidelines and standards, per delegated authority limits;
- Make recommendations on risks that exceed own authority and prepare escalations (sign-off) ensuring referral is accurate, thorough and balanced in terms of achieving desired profitable growth;
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders within SME and Dealer Division, Financial Lines team, Commercial and other Allianz divisions
- Ensure all key compliance and contract certainty requirements are adhered to such as training courses and peer reviews, and constantly seek opportunities for process improvement.

**Important to your success**:

- Extensive experience in a commercial underwriting role in a complex, matrixed general insurance organisation (professional indemnity experience preferred).
- A passion for providing a quality and responsive service to our internal and external customers;
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to both build relationships and influence at all levels;
- Self-motivated with the ability to work in an autonomous environment;
- Ability to positively influence the team.
- Adept at proactively building and maintaining professional relationships and networks to enhance industry positioning, exchange knowledge and elicit beneficial outcomes.
- Ability to plan and prioritise effectively, organise tasks and manage competing resources and demands.
- Pays high attention to detail by completing tasks with thoroughness and accuracy and must have the ability to quickly identify errors or inconsistencies within information.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of communicating with clarity, impact and influence.

**What's on offer?**
- Access on-demand lifelong learning and take control of your career development;
- Learn through being supported and encouraged to take on new challenges that will help you to develop new skills;
- Be part of a team that’s open-minded, supportive, approachable and genuinely focused on customer outcomes;
- A team which embraces diversity and inclusion to create an environment built on respect and genuine care for one another;
- We understand about work-life balance, we have adopted a hybrid working approach and we are always willing to discuss flexible & remote working options with our employees. Allianz is an accredited FlexReady employer;
- Access a range of benefits, such as discounts at retailers, travel firms, health insurers, gyms and financial institutions, alongside a discount on Allianz insurance products.

**About us**

At Allianz, we care for all the things that make you, you. For feeling like you belong. For a place where learning never stops. For growing new skills and opening up exciting possibilities. For your curiosity to thrive and help transform an industry. And when life twists, there’s flexibility for balance and the support you need. We know that flexible work comes in different forms, that’s why we’re embracing hybrid teams - enabling employees to maintain a balance of working both in the office and remote, supporting the needs of both the business and individual.

Allianz is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

LI-AllianzAU

**Job Level**:
Professional

**Location**:

- Sydney, NSW, AU, 2000**Available until**:
30

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