Underwriting Enablement Specialist

**Underwriting Enablement Specialist - Commercial | Location - Flexible**
- **12 month secondment into the new Underwriting Enablement team**:

- **Collaborate with business stakeholders across Commercial**:

- **Allianz is a FlexReady employer, flexible work options are available**

Are you looking for an organisation that has a high level of integrity and professionalism? Do you want challenging work that enables international relationships and sharing of global best practice?

The Commercial division is Allianz Australia's largest distribution channel whose customers include Commercial, Corporate and international buyer groups throughout Australia and New Zealand. We currently have a position for an
**Underwriting Enablement Specialist **to collaborate with, support business unit stakeholders and project managers by providing insightful reporting, and assist with the assessment and delivery of business process enhancement initiatives.

**It will be your responsibility to**:

- Analyse and deliver business process initiatives, managing either some components of mid-sized initiatives or all components of small initiatives.
- Clarify and translate business requirements into documentation and solution designs using appropriate tools, models, data analysis, process analysis, and cost-benefit analysis.
- Identify innovative methods of dealing with organisational problems and opportunities within the business through consultation / scanning / discussion and engagement with business representatives.
- Develop meaningful regular and ad hoc reporting to assist in business decision making.
- Participate in the project lifecycle, working closely with a variety of stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood, documented and delivered on time and on budget and in compliance with project governance structures and other applicable internal and external risk, audit and compliance frameworks.
- Analyse workflow to create process maps and isolate areas of potential improvement.
- Develop functional specifications that design and document desired outcomes of system enhancement / development.
- Coordinate and contribute to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure the overall efficiency, functionality and user friendliness of system enhancement / development.
- Prepare material and provide training and assistance to end-users following implementation to ensure appropriate participation and utilisation.

**Important to your success**:

- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline.
- Significant experience in a business and / or data analytics or business process re-engineering role for a complex matrixed general insurance or financial services organisation.
- Proven analytical and critical thinking capability to interpret a range of data, identify patterns, trends and links that inform judgements and solutions.
- Ability to interpret and analyse complex information, extract meaningful insights and evaluate options for decision-making.
- Ability to plan and prioritise effectively, organise tasks and manage competing resources and demands.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of communicating with clarity, impact and influence.
- Understanding of or trained in OPEX / Lean / Six Sigma or similar methodologies.

**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
- We understand about work-life balance, 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 significant 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.

**Job Level**:
Professional

**Location**:

- Melbourne, VIC,