Senior Underwriting Governance Analyst

AXA UK; Royal Tunbridge Wells; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

AXA Health is seeking a senior professional to lead underwriting governance and controls within AXA Health. Reporting to the Head of Pricing Governance and Controls, you will ensure effective underwriting governance, maintain philosophies, manuals and business rules, and perform QA to ensure compliance.

You will roll out changes, support audits, and conduct risk-based reviews of corporate, SME and individual underwriting decisions, building strong cross-team relationships and driving continuous

Qualifications

• Strong pricing strategies and PMI product knowledge.
• Experience with corporate underwriting and pricing for SME/individual lines is advantageous.
• Solid understanding of regulatory environment and risk governance.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results.
• Excellent communication with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining Corporate, SME and Individual underwriting philosophies, manuals and business rules, ensuring they are comprehensive, clear, up to date and in line with AXA Health risk appetite.
• Rolling out changes to philosophies and manuals effectively into the relevant teams.
• Supporting audit of corporate underwriting process on an annual basis to ensure compliance with philosophies, manuals and pricing strategies, drafting report outlining areas for improvement.
• Carrying out regular risk-based sampling reviews of corporate cases to assess individual underwriter competence and consistency of application of rules/approach, identifying gaps in knowledge and aspects of documentation that require updating.
• Coordinating and delivering twice yearly corporate underwriting tests to assess underwriter understanding of philosophy and manual content.
• Supporting review of individual and SME risk underwriting decisions made by the portfolio management team on a risk-based sampling basis to assess the teams understanding of philosophies, manuals and business rules.
• Building strong relationships with other pricing teams and risk and compliance.
• Supporting audits of decisions where underwriting decision making is delegated to other teams outside of pricing.

Skills

Pricing strategies

Underwriting governance

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder communication

Multi-priority management

Delivery focus

Analytical reasoning

Self-motivation

Job description

About AXA

AXA is a global leader in insurance and financial services, dedicated to helping customers protect what matters most to them. As the sixth-largest insurance company in the world, we provide a wide range of services, including health, car, home, and business insurance. We support millions of customers worldwide, helping them navigate life's uncertainties with confidence.

About AXA

AXA is a global leader in insurance and financial services, dedicated to helping customers protect what matters most to them. As the sixth-largest insurance company in the world, we provide a wide range of services, including health, car, home, and business insurance. We support millions of customers worldwide, helping them navigate life's uncertainties with confidence. AXA Health supports members to put their health first, from individuals to huge corporates, with fast access to diagnosis and treatment when they need it.

Job Overview

Reporting into the Head of Pricing Governance and Controls, you’ll ensure effective underwriting governance for AXA Health, implementing positive, balanced and effective underwriting risk control. This role maintains Corporate, SME and individual underwriting philosophies, manuals and business rules, and carries out case reviews and QA to ensure compliance with these.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintaining Corporate, SME and Individual underwriting philosophies, manuals and business rules, ensuring they are comprehensive, clear, up to date and in line with AXA Health risk appetite.
• Rolling out changes to philosophies and manuals effectively into the relevant teams.
• Supporting audit of corporate underwriting process on an annual basis to ensure compliance with philosophies, manuals and pricing strategies, drafting report outlining areas for improvement.
• Carrying out regular risk-based sampling reviews of corporate cases to assess individual underwriter competence and consistency of application of rules/approach, identifying gaps in knowledge and aspects of documentation that require updating.
• Coordinating and delivering twice yearly corporate underwriting tests to assess underwriter understanding of philosophy and manual content.
• Supporting review of individual and SME risk underwriting decisions made by the portfolio management team on a risk-based sampling basis to assess the teams understanding of philosophies, manuals and business rules.
• Building strong relationships with other pricing teams and risk and compliance.
• Supporting audits of decisions where underwriting decision making is delegated to other teams outside of pricing.

Work Arrangements

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) from January 2027. Away from home means attending the office, visiting clients or attending industry events.

Your Skills & Experience

• Comprehensive understanding of PMI products with a strong focus on pricing strategies, methods and systems.
• Experience of Corporate Underwriting approach and market, with some knowledge of Individual and SME underwriting/pricing an advantage.
• Understanding of the regulatory environment in which the business operates and understanding of the dynamics of large organisations.
• This role may be ideal for someone with pricing or underwriting experience who is looking to move into governance.
• Demonstrable resilience and experience of successfully managing multiple priorities.
• Ability to grasp and explain a range of technical concepts to all business stakeholders.
• Solution focused, with a strong focus on delivery, and desire for continuous improvement.
• Self-motivated with a can-do attitude.

This position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime which means that in addition to pre-employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years with an annual declaration in interim years.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

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