Full time Trainee Financial Lines Underwriter – AXA UK
Job Description
About the role
Join as a Trainee Underwriter in our Financial Lines & Specialty Lines team within Schemes and Delegated Authorities (SDA). We encourage you to push your boundaries, and we’ll provide you with a platform to showcase your skills and develop your career.
This might be the right opportunity if you’ve already had some exposure to insurance, or looking to make a career change, OR you might have completed your studies and looking for that great opportunity to begin an exciting career. The team are committed to nurturing and developing our people to reach their full potential. We offer a bespoke development plan and tailored mentoring to support you and help you cultivate your skills along your journey with us and the tools to maximise your potential to become a high achieving Schemes Underwriter. At AXA we’re adopting a Hybrid way of working, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. Are you ready to join us?
We offer a bespoke development plan and tailored mentoring to support you and help you cultivate your skills along your journey with us and the tools to maximise your potential to become a high achieving Schemes Technical Underwriter.
The Underwriting application process is designed to be as straightforward, accessible and supportive as possible. We want to ensure that you’ve the best opportunity to succeed with us. Our main aim is to identify the best talent for our growing national network.
What you’ll be doing:
- Focus on achieving a profitability and top line plan by working alongside our experienced Underwriters to deliver financial results
- Provide administration support within your team whilst learning how to underwrite Financial Lines Schemes & Delegated Authority business profitably and accurately
- ‘Solve Together’ by building excellent external and internal relationships at all levels, establishing trusted partnerships to support execution on the SDA strategy both over the phone and face to face.
- ‘Act for the Customer’ through the achievement and demonstration of full compliance with regulatory requirements, conduct and underwriting governance frameworks
- ‘Get Clear and Own It’ to consistently deliver a first-class service to all stakeholders
- Take ownership of your own personal development by being curious, networking and seeking opportunities for growth, to enhance your skills and capability. With progression towards relevant Chartered Insurance Institute Qualifications.
- Championing the change agenda, identifying continuous improvement and drive change through to resolution
What’s in it for you:
- Kickstart your career: We’ll support you to progress through the business and are committed to developing talent. We do this with training and tailored development plans.
- We’ll shape your future together: We ask ourselves what we can do today that will help us in the future. That’s why we offer continuous development to help our colleagues become experts in tomorrow.
- People are at our core: Whether you’re just starting out in your career, working with your team, or making a difference for a customer, people are always at the center of our story.
- A culture of trust, respect, and care: Our superpower is our people. We’re a vibrant community from all backgrounds. Everyone has the chance to learn, develop and be the very best they can be.
At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You’ll work at least 60% of your week away from home, either at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.
About you
What we’re looking for:
- Keep an open mind: Keen to learn and challenge the status quo, able to approach tasks from different perspectives while focusing on helping colleagues and customers.
- Stay curious: You’ll be perceptive of what our customers and the market wants and bring that knowledge into your work, whilst making the most of AXA’s development opportunities.
- Be a team player:Able to use your unique skills and knowledge to collaborate with your colleagues, take accountability and discover new ways of doing things.
- Willingness to pursue Cert CII and further Chartered Insured Institute Qualifications
- A thirst to develop a strong trading capability, commercial awareness, negotiation skills and ability to build strong partnering relationships
- Pragmatic and confident decision maker who is seeking development, with a desire to understand commercial insurance market and processes, including legislative and regulatory requirements
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Detail orientated, good analytical and numerical reasoning skills with ability to manipulate and interpret data
- Able to absorb and practically apply technical knowledge
- Professional, confident and able to adapt quickly, as you’ll be dealing with different people, including customers and insurance professionals
- Delivery of excellent customer service.
- Strong ability to work in a collaborative environment.
- Proactive, self-starter that is solution focused.
Entry Requirements:Whatever your circumstances, we want to hear from you. We ask for a minimum entry requirement of A level or equivalent in numerical subjects (Maths, Science, Economics, Business, Accounting etc).
This position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime which means that in addition to pre-employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years with an annual declaration in interim yea
What we offer
At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:
- Annual base salary depending on experience
- Annual company & performance-based bonus
- Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
- Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
- 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
- AXA employee discounts on AXA insurance products and high-street / online stores
- Gym benefits
- Chartered institute of insurance membership and funding to support qualification
- LinkedIn Learning membership
To apply, click on the ‘apply for this job’ button, you’ll then need to log in or create a profile to submit your CV. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don’t discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long term health condition or disability and require reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, we’re proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge. For our support, please send an email to [email protected]
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About AXA
With a presence in over 60 countries, and 165,000 employees serving the needs of 107 million customers, AXA is big.
But never too big to care for every single person who works here. So when you join us, we promise to put our collective might behind you and your career.
You’ll work in an open and supportive environment where you’ll be developed, challenged and encouraged to move around to achieve even bigger and better things – nationally and internationally. You’ll learn directly from senior leaders, from the best in our business. And you’ll enjoy real responsibility, really early on.
Every large company today talks about supporting diversity and inclusion. But at AXA UK, these values form an integral part of everything we do. For us, it’s about bringing together the best talent, helping people to realise their full potential by being 100% themselves at work and delivering outstanding service to everyone – regardless of difference.
AXA Commercial protects businesses, from multinationals to micro start-ups, giving them the confidence to thrive. We’re currently making our biggest ever investment to develop the expertise and skills we need to be the best. We’re a vibrant community where everyone is supported to learn, develop, and take ownership of their work.
Location : Leeds
Closing Date : 26/02/2024
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