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Assistant Underwriter - Cyber
Assistant Underwriter - CyberBeazley Group • Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Assistant Underwriter - Cyber

Assistant Underwriter - Cyber

Beazley Group • Chicago, Illinois, United States
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General

Job Title : Assistant Underwriter - Cyber

Division : Underwriting Operations

Reports To : As per Beazley Org Structure

Key Relationships : Underwriters, Brokers, Underwriting Assistants, UCO, and external clients and suppliers.

Job Summary To provide support and assistance to Underwriters by reviewing new and renewal business, approving policy changes, and managing account activities throughout the underwriting process.

Key Responsibilities

Underwriting Support

  • Undertake lower complexity tasks that have traditionally sat within Underwriting, that require a UAL in order to administer
  • Ensuring underwriting controls are present and completed within the agreed SLA for all risks that you have underwritten.
  • Triage submissions including Vulnerability scanning and Ransomware Application checks
  • Manual population of Beazley Quote Tools
  • Produce Quote Documentation as per the underwriting guidelines
  • Assist Underwriters with risk analysis, consistent with underwriting guidelines
  • Make underwriting decisions, within pre-defined limits and revenue thresholds
  • Confirm pricing and binding conditions are met
  • Attend underwriting training and meetings as appropriate
  • Other duties assigned from time to time
  • Establishing and developing broker relationships with stakeholders that consistently submit low complexity business to Beazley
  • Ensuring any delegated authority business is only underwritten via approval from Beazley when outside of the exception terms
  • Ensuring any underwriting decisions made that exceed your UAL are appropriately referred and signed off prior to binding.

Broker / Client Interaction

  • Provide professional service to brokers via email, telephone, and face to face
  • Serve as the first point of contact for customer inquiries during the account life cycle
  • Maintain and develop key relationships by responding to all client queries in a timely and accurate fashion
  • General

    It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere Beazley's core values - Being Bold, Striving for Better, and Doing the Right Thing as they contribute to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers.

    We also expect Beazley employees to :

  • Adopt the Beazley culture of Professionalism, Integrity, Effectiveness and Dynamic that contributes to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers.
  • Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct. Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Culture & People development or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system.
  • Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.
  • Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.
  • Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Talent Management or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. This may include, amongst others, Beazley's underwriting control standards, Beazley's claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.
  • Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system.These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.
  • Personal Specification

    This role requires someone result focused, self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic. This role would be ideal for somebody with a professional approach to interact successfully with other clients, building relationships and an ability to negotiate with both internal and external parties.

    Skills and Abilities

  • Fluency in English and other languages based on regional business requirements
  • Demonstrated ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
  • Accurate and numerate
  • Computer skills - good working knowledge of MS Office
  • Strong analytical skills with attention to detail
  • Effective communication skills (written, verbal, active listening)
  • Ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritize
  • Knowledge and Experience

  • Proven administrative experience, preferably within the insurance or financial services sectors
  • Proven background in accurate, high volume data entry
  • Underwriting Assistant experience is advantageous
  • Competencies

  • Achievement drive
  • Analytical thinking
  • Information seeking
  • Customer focus
  • Initiative
  • Collaborative
  • Problem solving
  • Detail oriented
  • Team working
  • Time management
  • Relationship development
  • Effective communication
  • Aptitude and Disposition

  • Result / outcome focused, self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic
  • Ability to negotiate with both internal and external parties
  • Professional approach to interact successfully with managers / colleagues / external suppliers
  • Team worker and also able to work on own initiative
  • Values continuous personal and professional development
  • Who We Are :

    Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years' experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to inspire our clients and people with the confidence and freedom to explore, create and build - to enable businesses to thrive. Our clients want to live and work freely and fully, knowing they are benefitting from the most advanced thinking in the insurance market. Our goal is to become the highest performing sustainable specialist insurer.

    Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

    Our Culture

    We have a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds at Beazley with over 2,000 of us working around the world. Employee's diversity, experience and passion allow us to keep innovating and moving forward, delivering the best. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that is big on collaboration, diversity of thought and personal accountability. Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people and customers.

  • Be bold
  • Strive for better
  • Do the right thing
  • Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organization in touch with the changing world around us - our ambitious inclusion & diversity and sustainability targets are testament to this.

    We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive working environment. We actively encourage and expect applications from all backgrounds. Our commitment to fostering a supportive and dynamic workplace ensures that every employee can thrive and contribute to our collective success.

    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
  • We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you all the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as :

  • 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
  • The Rewards

  • The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, dynamic organization
  • 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
  • Salary for this role will be tailored to the successful individual's location and experience. The expected compensation range for this position is $65,000-$70,000 per year plus discretionary annual bonus.

    Don't meet all the requirements? At Beazley we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the job specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.

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