Senior M&A Underwriter

Aviva plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus opportunity

Pension scheme

Private medical

Share plan

Volunteer days

Flexible benefits

Employee discounts

Job summary

Aviva plc's M&A team within Aviva Global Corporate & Specialty delivers warranties, indemnities, tax and contingent insurance for high-value deals. As a senior member, you will underwrite complex M&A risks, build trusted relationships with brokers, clients and advisers, and help shape the team’s technical excellence.

You will mentor junior colleagues, support development, and contribute to the growth of the transactional risk business across international transactions, aligning with Aviva’s

Qualifications

• Strong corporate legal background or M&A advisory experience.
• Excellent understanding of M&A transactions and transactional risk exposures.
• Strong relationship management skills with trading partners, including brokers, clients, and professional advisers.
• Proven ability to negotiate complex transactions and make sound underwriting decisions.
• Experience supporting, mentoring, or developing colleagues within a professional environment.

Responsibilities

• Underwrite complex and time-sensitive M&A risks while building client and broker relationships.
• Mentor and develop junior colleagues in a collaborative, high-value environment.
• Contribute to growth of the transactional risk business and cross-border transactions.
• Provide trusted, expert underwriting decisions and technical advice.

Skills

M&A advisory

Corporate legal background

Underwriting decisions

Relationship management

Mentoring colleagues

Job description

This is a great job for someone who...

has experience in M&A transactions and/or transactional risk insurance looking to take the next step in their career. You enjoy building strong relationships, making commercial decisions, and working on complex, high-value, global transactions. You'll thrive in a collaborative environment where you can use your technical expertise while supporting the growth and development of others.

A bit about the job

The M&A team within Aviva Global Corporate & Specialty helps to deliver profitable growth across our transactional risk portfolio. The team provides specialist Warranties & Indemnities, Tax and Contingent insurance solutions for M&A transactions as well as underwrite complex and time-sensitive M&A risks while building strong relationships with brokers, clients and colleagues.

You'll help to strengthen and maintain our reputation for technical excellence, trusted advice and quality service delivery. As a senior member of the team, you'll also support junior colleagues' development and contribute to the continued growth of the business. We have proudly built a unique hybrid M&A book and our objective is to firmly establish ourselves as a strong, trusted and sustainable corporate M&A insure.

Skills and experience we're looking for

• Strong corporate legal background or M&A advisory experience.
• Excellent understanding of M&A transactions and transactional risk exposures.
• Strong relationship management skills with trading partners, including brokers, clients, and professional advisers.
• Proven ability to negotiate complex transactions and make sound underwriting decisions.
• Experience supporting, mentoring, or developing colleagues within a professional environment.

Nice to have

• Previous experience underwriting M&A, Warranties & Indemnities, Tax, Contingent and/or other Transactional Risk insurance products.

• Experience working on international or multi-jurisdictional transactions.
• An established network within the M&A insurance market.

Whatyou’llget 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.

• Competitive startingsalary(depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Competitive bonus opportunity - actual amountdependson your performance and Aviva’s.

• Generouspensionscheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14%

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

• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it.

• 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 ourMatching Share Planandshare in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

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

• Make a difference,be part of ourAviva Communitiesand use your3 paid volunteering daysto help others

• We take yourwellbeingseriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’reinclusive andwelcome everyone– we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if youdon’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

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

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