Senior Underwriter

Accelerant; Glasgow; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialty insurance innovator in Glasgow is seeking an experienced Underwriter to deliver exceptional service to its MGA Members across the UK and Europe. This role involves managing a portfolio, onboarding, and building relationships while producing underwriting summary reports. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of underwriting experience and strong communication skills. The position is fully remote, offering flexibility and the chance to make an impact in the insurance sector.

Benefits

Equity options

Flexible schedules

Remote work opportunities

Culture of autonomy and curiosity

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience in underwriting roles.
• Good understanding of portfolio management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Deliver exceptional service to MGA Members.
• Manage portfolio, onboarding, and relationship building.
• Produce underwriting summary reports.

Skills

Building rapport and trust

Self-motivated

Oral communication

Written communication

Organisational skills

Prioritisation

Team player

Strategic thinking

Integrity and confidentiality

Education

University Degree preferred

Educated to A level standard

ACII qualified or progressing

Tools

Outlook

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Main Purpose of Role

To deliver exceptional service to our MGA Members across the UK and Europe. To be an integral part of the Underwriting team to deliver portfolio management, onboarding and underwriting relationship building. The role will involve reviewing underwriting guides, policy wordings, binder referrals, new product development and portfolio managing a book of business which you will be responsible for.

Key Accountabilities

• Take ownership and responsibility for your MGA Members.
• Demonstrate portfolio product knowledge and expertise, providing guidance, coaching, mentoring and taking referrals from your MGA Members.
• Collaboration and Communication are critical in this role.
• Build trusted long-term relationships internally with your peers & externally with our customers.
• Proactively underwriting approach.
• Production of Underwriting summary reports for new Members, Products or Underwriting Performance.
• Deliver against underwriting and financial measures as outlined in the plan.

Skills/Competencies

• Demonstrate the ability to build rapport and trust with: immediate team members and members of the wider organisation, existing and potential Member MGAs.
• A self-starter - highly self-motivated and comfortable working in a team that is geographically diverse.
• Communication (oral) - ability to communicate well one-to-one and in small groups. Keeps others informed and updated.
• Communication (written) - ability to write clear, precise and well organised documents.
• Organisational Skills - ability to deliver on tasks and meet deadlines.
• Prioritisation and attention to detail - must have excellent skills in both of these competencies.
• Team Player - ability to work well in a team as well as on own initiative.
• Strategic thinking - understands the big picture. Ability to acquire, understand and absorb information quickly.
• Ability to act with due professional care, demonstrating sound integrity and confidentiality.

Qualifications

• University Degree preferred
• Educated to at least A level standard
• ACII qualified or making progress towards the preferred

Experience

• 10+ years' experience in underwriting roles with a good understanding of portfolio management.
• Experience of industry and market systems and processing is desirable but not essential.
• Good knowledge of Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience of identifying and implementing process improvements.
• Experience of working to deadlines and managing others' priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English required; other European languages are an asset.

PRA Conduct Standards or local country equivalent(s)

• You must act with integrity.
• You must act with due skill, care, and diligence.
• You must be open and cooperative with the NBB, FCA, PR,A and other regulators.
• You must take reasonable steps to ensure that the business of the firm for which you are responsible is controlled effectively.
• You must take reasonable steps to ensure that the business of the firm for which you are responsible complies with the relevant requirements and standards of the regulatory system.
• You must take reasonable steps to ensure that any delegation of your responsibilities is to an appropriate person and that you oversee the discharge of the delegated responsibility effectively.
• You must disclose appropriately any information of which the NBB, FCA or PRA would reasonably expect to have notice.
• When exercising your responsibilities, you must pay due regard to the interests of current and potential future policyholders in ensuring the provisions by the firm of an appropriate degree of protection for their insured benefits.

FCA Conduct Rules or local country equivalent(s)

• You must pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly.
• You must observe proper standards of market conduct.

About Accelerant

Accelerant is a services and data platform for the specialty insurance market. Our mission is to align incentives across the ecosystem. Our Risk Exchange harnesses advanced data analytics and AI to reduce information asymmetries and operational barriers. We connect expert underwriters with risk-capital partners, turning decades-old, siloed processes into data-rich insight and predictable capacity. Since we launched in 2018, our platform has grown to $3 billion+ in annual premium across 500+ niche programs and 40+ countries, all under the banner of A- (Excellent) AM Best ratings and the support of global carriers like QBE and Tokio Marine. By aligning incentives and arming specialists with real-time data, Accelerant makes it easy for small and midsize businesses to get the coverage they need to keep growing.

Why Accelerant

Our incredible team is united by the mission to make insurance work better - for everyone. We're a fully remote, high-trust team where engineers, data scientists, and insurance experts work side-by-side to ship in weeks, not years. Every model trained and feature released unlocks protection for thousands of small businesses, and proves that centuries-old markets can run on modern data. We back bold ideas with meaningful equity, flexible schedules across North America and Europe, and a culture built on curiosity, autonomy, and clear results. If you love tackling hard problems, moving quickly, and seeing your work matter every day-join us.