Senior Underwriting Analyst - Open Market Property

Tokio Marine Kiln; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading underwriting firm in Greater London is looking for a Senior Underwriting Analyst to join their Property & Motor team. The role involves data analysis, creating dashboards, and supporting underwriting decisions to maximize profitability. The ideal candidate will have advanced Excel skills, experience with catastrophe risk modelling, and the ability to collaborate effectively with various teams. This position offers a dynamic and inclusive work culture, focusing on empowerment and teamwork.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Inclusive work environment

Opportunities for CSR activities

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills for data interpretation.
• Experience developing tools and dashboards.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Input and manipulate data for underwriting decisions.
• Develop tools to analyse portfolio and identify insights.
• Assist with underwriting and reinsurance tasks.
• Build relationships with brokers and claims.
• Manage structured and ad-hoc portfolio analysis.

Skills

Advanced Excel skills

Data analysis capability

Catastrophe risk modelling experience

Understanding of D&F Open Market

Experience with portfolio management software

Ability to use dashboarding tools

Basic levels of Sequel and AI language models

Attention to detail

Tools

RMS

Power BI

Tableau

TigerEye

Job description

We have the opportunity for a Senior Underwriting Analyst - Open Market Property to join our Property & Motor team here at Tokio Marine Kiln. Reporting into the Divisional Head of Open Market Property, you will play a key role in supporting underwriting decisions through data analysis, portfolio management, and process optimisation. This is a fantastic opportunity to work closely with senior managers and underwriters to maximise the value of data and drive strategic insights.

Key responsibilities include:

• Inputting, manipulating, and interpreting data to inform underwriting direction and decisions.
• Developing tools and dashboards to analyse the portfolio and identify KPIs and insights.
• Liaising across the business to improve data efficiency and integrity.
• Assisting the Divisional Head with underwriting and reinsurance tasks to maximise profitability.
• Developing AI-based tools to help improve productivity and portfolio optimisation.
• Building relationships with brokers, coverholders, and claims to streamline processes.
• Acting as a point of contact for internal teams including Exposure Management, Data, Claims, and Outwards Reinsurance.
• Troubleshooting and analysing modelling output from Exposure Management.
• Managing structured and ad-hoc portfolio analysis using systems such as TigerEye, RMS, and other internal tools.
• Championing company values and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

The successful candidate will have:

• Advanced Excel skills and strong data analysis capability.
• Previous property D&F cat risk modelling experience
• Solid understanding of the D&F Open Market
• Experience with catastrophe risk modelling systems (e.g., RMS, AIR) and portfolio management software.
• Ability to use dashboarding tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Qlik.
• Basic levels of Sequel (or alternative) and AI language models (Chat GPT or alternative)
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.

The successful candidate will be welcomed into the TMK family to help us further our purpose of enabling our clients to fulfil their ambitions whilst benefiting society and our people. We are committed to ensuring a safe, open, inclusive and empowering environment in which all of our people can thrive. All employees have the opportunity to join one or a number of inclusion network groups or take part in CSR and charitable activities. TMK is signed up to the Disability Confident Employer Scheme and we also accommodate flexible working, subject to the TMK flexible working policy.

As an underwriting firm with over 140 years’ experience of protecting clients from changing risks we put our confidence in the ability and talent of our people. We aim to be a ‘Good Company’ and this means being a great and inclusive company to do business with and being a great place to work. Our culture is founded on our core values of empowerment, inclusion, excellence, integrity, teamwork and innovation. We seek to recruit the best talent by endeavouring to reach diverse talent pools, offering dynamic working arrangements and investing in development.

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