Underwriting Assistant

Underwriting Assistant

Our Underwriting Assistants are a critical part of CFC's underwriting operation, providing expert support to underwriters and helping ensure we continue to deliver outstanding service to brokers and insureds worldwide. As an Underwriting Assistant in our Corporate Professions team, you'll play a key role in supporting the end-to-end underwriting process, acting as a trusted partner to the underwriting team and helping drive efficiency, accuracy and consistency across the portfolio.

We're ideally looking for someone who already has a few years of experience supporting Corporate Professions underwriters and is looking to continue building their career as a UA within a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment.

About the role

You'll provide day-to-day operational and administrative support to underwriting teams, ensuring submissions, renewals and policy documentation are processed accurately and efficiently. Key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting underwriters throughout the full underwriting lifecycle, from submission through to policy issuance.
• Managing and prioritising new business and renewal submissions.
• Ensuring underwriting systems and records are maintained accurately and in a timely manner.
• Preparing underwriting documentation, policy schedules and related correspondence.
• Liaising with brokers and internal stakeholders to resolve queries and obtain outstanding information.
• Monitoring pipelines, renewal activity and subjectivities, ensuring key deadlines are met.
• Producing reports and management information as required.
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes and ways of working across the team.
• Acting as a knowledgeable point of contact for underwriting operations and administration.

About you

You'll be an organised, proactive and detail-oriented professional who enjoys working in a busy environment and building strong relationships with stakeholders. We're particularly interested in candidates who have:

• Demonstrable experience working as an Underwriting Assistant within the insurance market supporting Corporate Professions underwriting teams.
• A strong understanding of underwriting processes, policy administration and broker servicing.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work.
• Confidence communicating with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Good system skills, including experience with Microsoft Office and experience navigating underwriting platforms.
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to support colleagues across the wider team.
• Progress towards, or an interest in pursuing, professional insurance qualifications such as the CII.

About CFC

CFC is a specialist insurance provider, pioneering emerging risk and market leader in cyber. Our global insurance platform uses cutting-edge technology and data science to deliver smarter, faster underwriting and protect customers from today's most critical business risk. Headquartered in London with offices in New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Austin, Madrid, Brussels and Brisbane, CFC has over 1100 staff and is trusted by more than 100,000 businesses across 90 countries. At CFC, insurance isn't just about underwriting. From data science to software development, and digital marketing design, we've got something for everyone. We're passionate about pushing boundaries, thinking differently and building the insurance company of the future. CFC is committed to the principles of equal opportunities and creating an environment in which all individuals are always treated with dignity and respect. We encourage a diverse corporate culture of openness and appreciation to create an environment in which your talent can be developed in the best possible way. Should you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process please let us know.

Our Hiring Process

Stage 1: Applied

Stage 2: Application Review

Stage 3: 1st Stage Interview

Stage 4: 2nd Stage Interview

Stage 5: Offer

Stage 6: Hired

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