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We are looking for Graduates or School leavers that are keen to start their professional career with an innovative Insurance business that loves to challenge the status quo. Due to continued growth we have a new opportunity for an Underwriting Assistant to join our Specialty Lines team, which has over 15 years’ experience providing insurance to traditional and emerging industries. CFC’s specialty team are the go-to-market for management liability, financial institutions, kidnap and ransom, and product recall risks.
About the role
As an Underwriting Assistant you will support the end to end underwriting process from logging and processing submissions on CFC’s underwriting system. You’ll work closely with CFC underwriters.
You’ll develop a thorough understanding of CFC’s workflow processes and systems as well gaining exposure to insurance. A role as an underwriting assistant provides a great foundation for a career at CFC, with a number of our underwriters and underwriting team leaders starting their careers here! Day to day responsibilities will see you:
- Providing excellent administrative support to underwriting teams to ensure CFC can adhere to target turnaround times for our brokers and insureds.
- Managing the underwriting central inboxes and logging new and renewal submissions on CFC’s internal underwriting system.
- Preparing various activity reports and spreadsheets as directed
- Administering the department diary, including chasing outstanding items such as subjectivities and renewal business.
- Answering incoming calls and fielding queries as appropriate
- General ad-hoc administrative duties as required.
About you
We are looking for passionate individuals with a keen interest in a career in Insurance and the Technology sector. You will have:
- Impeccable organisational skills with the ability to prioritise work to meet tight deadlines and turnaround times.
- Resilient and able to operate effectively and accurately under pressure.
- Excellent level of attention to detail including accurate written and numeracy skills.
- Good communications skills both written and verbal.
- Above all you’re a team player!
Core values
Love what you do
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.
Challenge everything
We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.
Have fun, be good
Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.
