Tag: Beazley

Company: Beazley

Location: Toronto, ON

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Job date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 02:36:12 GMT

Job description: Overview: Job Title: Underwriting Assistant Division: Beazley Digital Reports To: As per Beazley’s organisation chart Key Relationships: Underwriters, Brokers, Coverholders, other staff members and external clients and suppliers. Job Summary: To assist the team in maintaining efficient underwriting processes and providing customer service to clients. 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 provide Beautifully Designed Insurance, innovating to give our clients the maximum benefit with minimum hassle. 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 employ over 1,500 people globally, hosting a wonderful diversity of cultures, experiences and backgrounds. We are proud of our unique culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that’s low on policies & politics but big on collaboration, diversity & personal accountability. Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our customers and people – 1) Be bold 2) Strive for better 3) Do the right thing. Upholding these values every day enables us to become an innovative and responsive organisation, in touch with the changing world and marketplace around us. We have set ambitious diversity & sustainability targets as we strive to better our business and the insurance industry as whole. Underwriting Support – 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. Reporting – 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. Broker/Client Interaction – 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. Education and Qualifications – Educated to ‘A’ level/High School graduate or equivalent – Degree in any discipline – preferred but not essential Skills and Abilities – 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 Knowledge and Experience – Proven administrative experience, preferably within the insurance or financial services sectors – Proven background in accurate, high volume date entry – Insurance experience advantageous Aptitude and Disposition – Outcome focused, self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic – Professional approach to successfully interact with managers/colleagues/external suppliers Competencies – Achievement orientation – Analytical thinking – Information seeking – Customer focus – Team working – Initiative – Problem solving – Detail orientated – Time management – Relationship building – Communication skills

The job title is Underwriting Assistant at Beazley Digital, a specialist insurance company. The role involves assisting the team in maintaining efficient underwriting processes and providing customer service to clients. Beazley’s culture values diversity and innovation, with a focus on empowering employees to work in a collaborative and accountable environment. The responsibilities include supporting underwriters with administration, data entry, and reporting, as well as interacting with brokers and clients. The ideal candidate should have a degree, strong computer skills, and experience in administration, preferably in the insurance or financial services sectors. Other desired qualities include communication skills, time management, and a customer-focused mindset.