• Job Description

  Req#: R-128985

  Senior Financial Lines Underwriter – Salary of up to £95,000

  Are you someone with a strong underwriting background looking to provide technical leadership in Financial Lines within the Chief Underwriter’s Office?

  The role would suit an experienced underwriter who enjoys thinking strategically over both the short and longer term with the desire to develop our underwriting approach to solve complex problems.

  This role is open to both London and Manchester and would require you to come in to the offices at least 3 days per week. If Manchester based, we would need you to be able to get to London when required.

  A bit about the job:

  Reporting to the Speciality Lines Underwriting Manager you will provide leadership on technical underwriting issues including developing underwriting guidance and defining risk acceptance rules. We are looking for someone with a strong technical underwriting background who is looking operate at a strategic rather than trading level.

  The work includes supporting the dedicated wordings team to ensure our policy wordings are clear for our customers, operate as intended and are aligned with our risk appetite and researching new and emerging issues to identify potential future threats and/or opportunities and develop underwriting and risk management solutions to either mitigate the effects or grow our business.

  You will be expected to represent Aviva externally, engaging with a range of stakeholders potentially including regulators, reinsurers, and market bodies to inform and influence discussions on key matters.
  

  Duties & Responsibilities

  • Optimise performance to help deliver UKGI financial targets by setting technical strategy and defining underwriting appetite

  • Develop and own Financial Lines underwriting philosophy, strategy, risk appetite, technical wordings, and drive improvement opportunities in the likes of wordings, processes, pricing or strategy

  • Hold a high level of Financial Lines underwriting authority and act as both a referral point and a conferral point on complex cases, with specific authority for strategy exception cases

  • Input into furthering Aviva technical understanding of current and emerging risks, opportunities and customers, which will drive technical strategy and product set, supporting underwriting excellence and good customer outcomes

  • Providing governance and oversight of the Financial Lines trading teams, primarily through the Peer Review system and also supporting internal audits and other related processes across UKGI

  Skills and experience we’re looking for:

  • Strong technical underwriting knowledge preferably in PI

  • Ability to engage and influence a broad range of internal and external stakeholders

  • Ability to communicate complex subjects in a clear, concise and simple way

  • Experience of developing wordings

  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and solve issues using own initiative

  What you’ll get for this role:

  Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

  • Starting salary up to £95,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

  • Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.

  • Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

  • 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

  • Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

  • Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

  • Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

  • Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

  • Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

  • We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

  Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.

  Aviva is for everyone:

  We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

  Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

  We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

  To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here

  We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

  We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Dylan Wood a call on 07385 426164 or send an email to Dylan.wood@Aviva.com .

• About the company

  We’re here to protect our 33 million customers from life’s unexpected twists and turns – freeing them from fear of uncertainty. We are one of only a few insurance companies in the world that can provide customers with life, general and health insurance, and asset management in one place – a composite insurer. And we have a unique competitive advantage. Whether we’re protecting them from everyday risks or helping them to save for the future, we put customers at the heart of all we do – creating a bright and sustainable future for our customers, employees and our communities.

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