 
						Head of Financial Lines
1 week ago
- Location: Sydney/Melbourne
- Type: Permanent opportunity
- Hybrid role, happy to talk flexible working
The opportunity
This is an excellent opportunity for individuals with strong expertise in financial lines and leadership skills, backed by proven experience in the insurance industry. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of market nuances, regulations, strategic development, underwriting, and risk management, ensure profitability while building and maintaining strong relationships with clients and brokers.
Your new role:
This pivotal role will be responsible for developing and executing strategic initiatives to enhance our portfolio, drive profitability, and strengthen client relationships. The successful candidate will oversee product development, underwriting, and risk management across key financial lines.
You will:
- Develop and implement a strategic vision for the Financial Lines division, ensuring alignment with QBE's objectives.
- Lead a team of underwriters and specialists, fostering a culture of high performance and professional growth whilst acting as a senior leader through entrepreneurial spirit and engagement
- Drive profitable growth by identifying new business opportunities and optimising the existing portfolio and maintain strong relationships with brokers, clients, and industry partners to enhance market presence.
- Oversee underwriting guidelines, risk assessment, and pricing strategies to ensure sustainable profitability.
- Monitor industry trends, regulatory changes, and emerging risks to keep the company ahead of market developments and collaborate with internal stakeholders, including actuarial, claims, and legal teams, to optimise product offerings and risk management.
- Lead, adjust to and plan for financial performance, understanding P&L and Balance Sheets, and ensuring financial targets are managed and led
About you
You will have a unique combination of technical expertise, strategic vision, and robust leadership abilities to effectively manage and expand the financial lines insurance business. You will possess a profound knowledge of underwriting, risk management, and market trends to evaluate and mitigate complex financial risks. Having strong leadership skills will be crucial for team management and performance enhancement.
To be successful in this role you will have:
- A proven track record in Financial Lines insurance, with substantial underwriting, broking, or risk management experience.
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and develop talent.
- Deep understanding of financial lines products, market dynamics, and regulatory frameworks.
- Excellent analytical, negotiation, and relationship management skills.
- A strategic thinker with the ability to drive innovation and business growth.
About QBE
We can never really predict what's around the corner, but at QBE we're asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. We're an international insurer that's building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.
And our people will be at the centre of our success. We're proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities. With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we're big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.
We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE — let's make it happen
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:
- 'Hybrid Working' – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance 
- Life Leave, supporting the life events we all experience, leaving your annual leave for rest 
- Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice 
- 18 weeks' gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super 
- Voluntary super contributions and company matching 
- Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums 
- A range of discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services 
Rewards & Recognition
We value our employee's experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:
- 2025 Winner of Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award at the Insurance Business Australia Awards for our program 
- 2023 Most Inclusive Workplace at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards 
- 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice 
- 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards 
- Platinum employer on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion 
- Ranked in the top ten in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2025 for medium sized program as voted by graduates 
- Family Friendly Workplace accredited employer since 2021 
Apply now
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QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at
Skills:
Analytical Thinking, Coaching for success, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Influencing, Insurance Underwriting, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Navigating ambiguity, Policy Development, Portfolio Management, Risk Management, Strategic LeadershipApplication Close Date: 14/10/2025 11:59 PMHow to Apply:
To submit your application, click "Apply" and follow the step by step process.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.
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