Financial Lines Underwriter

Allianz UK; Maidstone; Hybrid; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented Underwriter to join their dynamic team. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a 'Best in Industry' team within the financial lines sector. You will engage in underwriting new business, build strong broker relationships, and collaborate across departments to achieve ambitious goals. With a focus on continuous learning, you will have access to top training platforms and support for professional development. This is a fantastic chance to grow your career in a flexible, inclusive environment that values diversity and innovation.

Benefits

Flexible buy/sell holiday options

Hybrid working

Annual performance related bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Development days

Discount on insurance products

Retail discounts

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Experience in underwriting new business enquiries and engaging in prospecting.
• Strong customer focus with excellent negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent service and build relationships with brokers.
• Process renewals and ensure compliance with regulations.

Skills

Underwriting

Negotiation

Customer Service

Relationship Building

Team Collaboration

Professional Indemnity (PI)

Directors and Officers (D&O)

Self-Motivation

Job description

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Role Description

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an Underwriter to join our successful Regional Financial Lines team at Allianz. The role will be located in London, Maidstone, Chelmsford or Southampton and you will be required to do 3 days a week on site/in office.

As part of this growth and ambition, we are now looking for a talented, ambitious and passionate underwriting professional to join us on our journey to build a ‘Best in Industry’ team which sets the gold standard within the Allianz Group.

The role will include everything from pricing risks, chasing in new business, and analysing claims data, to implementing bespoke scheme arrangements; including answering day to day queries from Brokers, and ensuring that renewal terms are sent out in accordance with our compliance rules and regulations, developing broker relationships through regular broker visits and collaborating with your colleagues in other departments to support our ambitious growth plans.

You'll participate in the Global P&C Academy accreditation, enhancing your skills in underwriting, risk engineering, pricing, and claims management while exchanging best practices across the Allianz Group. Furthermore, for pricing-based roles, Allianz Insurance offers a generous study package to enable the actuarial qualification to be obtained through the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in the UK.

Our team values continuous learning, you can enjoy free access to top training platforms like DataCamp, Databricks Academy, and LinkedIn Learning. Additionally, we host Lunch and Learn sessions on key business topics hosted by experts across the team and monthly insight sessions, including the Data Science Forum and analyst forum, to refine your technical skills.

Salary Information

Pay: Circa £45,000 per year.

Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

About You

As the Financial Lines Underwriter you will be responsible for;

• Providing excellent service to our Customers
• Collaborating and build a successful relationship with the Regional and wider UK Financial Lines Team
• Building successful broker relationships
• Achieving agreed financial performance targets
• Collaborating strongly with other departments to achieve the Company's goals in respect of service delivery
• Processing renewals and mid-term adjustments
• Sending out documents to Brokers ensuring that we adhere to compliance and regulation
• You will focus on building broker relationships and driving new business.

Essential Skills

To be successful in this role you will be able to/have;

• Underwrite new business enquiries received by brokers, actively engage in prospecting activities to secure new business growth.
• Experience with Professional Indemnity (PI) and/or Directors and Officers (D&O) Underwriting
• Negotiate within authority and referring where appropriate to maximise customer growth including persuading, influencing and convincing customers of the benefits of an opposed course of action.
• Track record as a confident negotiator.
• Build, develop and maintain positive broker relationships.
• A good team player, supportive to others with an enthusiastic and positive attitude
• Highly customer focused with ability to build broker relationships.
• Good influencing and negotiation skills.
• Strong capability for team working.
• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative
• Strong trading skills

We support the government scheme “Access to Work” please feel free to ask us about the access to work scheme.

What We Will Offer You

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts
• Volunteering days

Our Ways of Working

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen.Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Allianz, we prioritize diversity and inclusion, demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.

We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.

We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.

Accessible Application for All

As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.

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For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Matthew Mckevitt

Closing date 09/05/25

We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.

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