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Underwriting Manager (General Insurance)

  • Location: London
  • Salary: Competitive Salary per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted over 3 years ago

  • Sector: Risk Management
  • Contact: Gemma Cardew
  • Contact Email: gcardew@merje.com
  • Expiry Date: 29 October 2020
  • Job Ref: GC/16848

Based in London with Home Working

Our client is a fast growing UK Insurance Intermediary currently controlling over £700m premium as one of the top independent insurance intermediaries in the UK.

The Group comprises:

  • A national network of insurance brokers focussed on delivering an expert, personal service to their clients
  • Leading Lloyd’s and London market brokers Lonmar and Ropner which operate in the global, specialty insurance and reinsurance markets
  • An Underwriting Division distributing specialist products via partnerships with over 2000 UK insurance brokers

We are looking for a candidate with the following attributes and a Min 5 years in General Insurance:

Good understanding and experience in working with:

  • a wide range of insurance classes & data sets (quote, exposure, premium, claims)
  • the data lifecycle
  • tracking and measuring portfolio performance
  • the dynamics of individual risk underwriting, portfolio underwriting and e-trading
  • pricing methods
  • actuarial pricing, rate and reserving models
  • scenario testing, impact analysis and what if analysis
  • data analytics and visualisation
  • reporting and presentations
  • data enrichment sources particularly peril, credit and validation data

Useful to also have a knowledge of:

  • reinsurance underwriting and pricing techniques
  • aggregation control and catastrophe modelling
  • capital allocation
  • data sciences

They are in the process of consolidating their underwriting and claims data within a central Data Warehouse so initially this role will also be supporting a large scale Data Integration project.