Wordings Specialist

**Wordings Specialist**

Sydney/Melbourne

Our International Wordings team has an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and adaptable individual to join them as a Wordings Specialist. You will be an integral part of the team and the wider Legal department supporting the underwriting business across all product lines covering a wide variety of complex risks. You will have the opportunity to demonstrate your technical drafting skills and advisory services to the underwriters, their clients and brokers in order to provide a service differentiator for AXA XL.

**DISCOVER your opportunity**

What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Analysing - reviewing our existing products, new products and those of our competitors, including analysis and explanation of individual clauses right through to entire product wordings, always with a focus on delivering a timely and commercial solution to any issue raised;
- Creating & Innovating - working closely with key stakeholders to build new insurance products from scratch or refine or expand existing products, leading innovation for the AXA XL brand;
- Teamwork - collaborating with colleagues across the Wordings team, the wider Legal Department and beyond (Claims, Compliance, Conduct Risk) in order to deliver on team goals, service delivery requirements and internal projects Training and Developing - sharing best practice solutions across the wider business, delivering presentations to underwriting teams, providing pre-bind and post-bind technical wording advice;
- Supporting underwriters in achieving underwriting discipline both through coverage analysis and offering robust and clear wording solutions and highlighting potential coverage exposure to emerging risks.

You will report to the Wordings Manager based in Europe, with support from local Legal & Compliance in Sydney.

**SHARE your talent**

Does this sound like you?
- Ability to interpret and analyse insurance clause and/or wording requests and to satisfy these by drafting your own insurance clauses and wordings from scratch in a clear and robust manner (in English).
- Confidence to deliver group driven wording mandates alongside your own wording solutions to underwriters, brokers and peers both in writing and face to face.
- A comprehensive understanding of what the business, legal and compliance needs are for individual insurance classes.
- An in-depth understanding of standard clauses used in the Australian market and class-specific wording structures.
- An ability to plan and self-manage workload and work under pressure whilst adhering to deadlines and competing priorities.
- An ability to work both as part of a team and independently with little or no supervision and to exercise independent judgement.
- Demonstrable wordings experience in the Australian market and proven record of working in depth with insurance wordings. Experience of working on wholesale / commercial wordings preferred, but not essential.

**FIND your future**

AXA XL, the P&C and Specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For multinationals, mid-sized companies and even some inspirational individuals we don't just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a strong and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business property, casualty, specialty. professional, and financial lines

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

At AXA XL we are happy to talk flexible working. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and consider flexible ways of working for every role. Talk to us about how we can make flexibility work for you.

**Diversity & Inclusion**

At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That's why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, while creating an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. _It's about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed._
- Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, race/ethnicity, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe
- Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
- Enhanced family friendly leave benefits
- Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
- Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter