Job Title: Assistant Technical Underwriter
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Range: £25,600 - £30,000
Location: Eastleigh Assistant Technical Underwriter:
To assist the Technical Underwriting Department with their objective to improve the performance and profitable development of the Ageas Private Car, Commercial Vehicle, Niche, and Household accounts through BAU activities, tasks, and technical application.
Main Responsibilities as an Assistant Technical Underwriter:
1. Ensuring sound technical advice is provided on matters referred for assistance by other areas of the business. Being a technical point of referral to ensure correct application or clarification of underwriting rules and product covers, within authority levels. Triaging, investigating and taking ownership through to resolution of live errors that are reported to us by other areas of the business or external parties by phone or via the team mailbox.
2. Support the technical teams to deliver profitable growth across all channels by the delivery of BAU, Simple Change and Strategic Change, ensuring accuracy and efficiency and delivering to agreed timescales and prioritised in line with AIL Strategy.
3. Recommending any necessary improvements to our systems, documents, technical processes or products, and assisting with the control and review of policy wordings and associated technical documentation, focusing on any BAU efficiencies ensuring they are both effective and efficient with a keen eye on Automation, and AI, in support of continuous improvements.
4. To contribute to the control of financial and reputational risk and impact on profitability through ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation and regulation and managing the DAM Customer Communications register to ensure Technical UW deliver upon their obligations for Consumer Duty.
Skills and experience you need as an Assistant Technical Underwriter:
* An understanding of underwriting and pricing principles and experience of a wide range of technical issues, including the construction of policy wordings, and experience of at least one of Motor, Household, or Niche Insurance would be an advantage.
* A working knowledge of the personal lines market and of current legal/industry developments affecting the market.
* The jobholder should possess a good degree of numeracy, alongside analytical skills and the ability to interpret and present data.
About Ageas:
We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information please see Ageas Everyone.
We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.
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