Senior Underwriter, Financial Lines
4 days ago
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Underwriter to join our Financial Lines team. As a Senior Underwriter, you will be responsible for underwriting and developing a portfolio of complex risks, using your underwriting acumen, flair, and business development skills.
Key Responsibilities- Underwrite new business and renewals of high complexity, aligning with our underwriting strategy, authority levels, and service standards.
- Provide exceptional service to our customers and handle key portfolios/accounts with intermediaries.
- Strengthen relationships with all stakeholders to deliver business retention, growth, and profitability targets.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of current legislation, best practice, underwriting, systems, products, and organisational guidelines.
- Focus on increasing and sharing knowledge of QBE capability, risk appetite, and products, as well as brokers' operations, to strengthen our delivery of innovative solutions.
- Contribute to knowledge sharing, development, and mentoring of Underwriters, Trainees, and Assistant Underwriters, as required.
- Monitor and communicate activity within your portfolio, brokers, and market peers, and report on opportunities and risks to improve results.
- Experience in Directors & Officers and/or Professional Indemnity Insurance.
- Financial Institutions, Information Technology, or Medical Malpractice experience would also be highly regarded.
- Strong established customer/broker relationships and the ability to quickly develop relationships.
- Proven experience negotiating and influencing within the insurance industry.
- Working knowledge of risk management and portfolio management.
- Be a self-motivated team player with excellent communication skills, problem-solving, and process improvement experience.
- Extensive knowledge of relevant market conditions and local market policies.
We are an international insurer that's building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner. Our people will be at the centre of our success. We're proud to work together, and encourage each other to enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies, and our communities.
Benefits- 'Hybrid Working' – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance.
- Happy to talk flexible working.
- Our 'Thriving at our Best' wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial, and legal advice.
- 18 weeks' gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super.
- The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching.
- Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums.
- Additional leave and support through QBE's Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network.
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods, and services, including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners.
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