Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping clients manage risk globally. The Underwriting Assistant role involves supporting Underwriters in maintaining efficient underwriting processes and providing excellent customer service to clients.
Responsibilities
- Support the Underwriters in the delivery of an effective and efficient administration service
- Provide pre-underwriting and rating support to Underwriters and other staff
- Ensure timely and accurate data entry and scanning of risk documentation onto all Beazley systems within agreed service levels. Specifically checking agreed % of risk entries as required
- Data verification, integrity & accuracy
- Photocopying, logging and scanning quotes and declinatures, filing, archiving and scanning
- Interact with other teams within Beazley, ie Claims, Finance, Compliance, Management Services and other underwriting teams on matters affecting or related to accounts within the portfolio
- Help maintain team standards through supporting other underwriting assistants in achieving their service/quality levels and targets, as required
- Provide accurate management information to senior management team and underwriters
- Produce ad hoc reports, presentations and marketing literature for senior managers, underwriters and other members of staff as requested
- Provide a professional service to brokers in person, writing, email and telephone
- Maintain and develop key relationships including brokers and external clients, responding to client queries in an accurate and timely fashion
- Attend client meetings as required
Skills
- Accurate and numerate
- Computer skills – good working knowledge of MS Office, well developed spreadsheet skills
- Able to communicate effectively with others, both verbally and in writing
- Motivational skills, team worker as well as able to work on own initiative
- The ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise
- Proven administrative experience, preferably within the insurance or financial services sectors
- Proven background in accurate, high volume date entry
- Insurance experience advantageous
- Outcome focussed, self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic
- Professional approach to successfully interact with managers/colleagues/external suppliers
- Achievement orientation
- Analytical thinking
- Information seeking
- Customer focus
- Team working
- Initiative
- Problem solving
- Detail orientated
- Time management
- Relationship building
- Communication skills
Benefits
- Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related bonus
- Competitively priced medical, dental and vision insurance
- Company paid life, and short- and long-term disability insurance
- 401(k) plan with 5% company match and immediate vesting
- 22 days PTO (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), 11 paid holidays per year, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs
- Up to $700 reimbursement for home office setup
- Free in-office lunch, travel reimbursement for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance
- Up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Up to 2.5 days paid annually for volunteering at a charity of your choice
- Flexible working policy, trusting our employees to do what works best for them and their teams
- Internal Pathways (helping you grow into an underwriting role)
- ILearn (our own learning & development platform)
- LinkedIn Learning
- Mentorship program
- External qualification sponsorship
- Continuing education and tuition reimbursement
- Secondment assignments
- Explore a variety of networks to assist with professional and/or personal development. Our Employee Networks include:
- Beazley RACE - Including, understanding and celebrating People of Colour
- Beazley SHE - Successful, High potential, Empowered women in insurance
- Beazley Proud - Our global LGBTQ+ community
- Beazley Wellbeing - Supporting employees with their mental wellbeing
- Beazley Families - Supporting families and parents-to-be
Company Overview
Beazley provides insurance services for businesses. It was founded in 1986, and is headquartered in London, England, GBR, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.beazley.com.