Underwriting Assistant - Cyber

General

Job Title: Underwriting Assistant - Cyber

Division: Beazley Shared Services

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. This role will support our West Coast operations, and will need to work West Coast hours.

Key Responsibilities

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.
  
  

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 $53,000-$56,000 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.