Underwriting Administrator (Offshore)

Starr Underwriting; City Of London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance organization is seeking an administrative support professional to enhance its Underwriting division. Responsibilities include managing data entry, ensuring quality assurance, and supporting internal audits, driven by a commitment to quality and compliance standards. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong attention to detail, effective communication skills, and a proactive approach to teamwork and support.

Benefits

First-class training and development opportunities

Inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Strong attention to detail is crucial for maintaining accuracy.
• Experience in data entry and administrative support is required.

Responsibilities

• Enter risk and policy data into the Underwriting system.
• Undertake peer-to-peer quality assurance checks.
• Assist with month-end close and credit control.

Skills

Attention to detail

Data entry

Quality assurance

Communication

Job description

Starr Insurance Companies is a leading insurance and investment organization, providing commercial property and casualty insurance, including travel and accident coverage, to almost every imaginable business and industry in virtually every part of the world.

Cornelius Vander Starr established his first insurance company in Shanghai, China in 1919. Today, we are one of the world’s fastest growing insurance organizations, capable of writing in 128 countries on 6 continents.

To support the Underwriting division through defined administrative responsibilities.

• Enter risk and policy data in to the Underwriting system(s) within the defined Service Level Agreements.
• Undertake peer-to-peer quality assurance checks within the defined Service Level Agreements.
• Ensure all risk and policy queries are communicated through the appropriate channels and responded to in a timely manner.
• Process unmatched USMs within the defined Service Level Agreements and escalate any issues through the appropriate channels.
• Ensure all tasks are completed for month-end close.
• Assist with credit control and provide support to the credit control team with aged debt and excess cash queries when required.
• Attend team, departmental and divisional meetings to build, and maintain, internal relationships and continue understanding of the business.
• Scan and store all documentation in to the document management storage folders as required.
• Ensure that Underwriting files are complete and accurate. Obtain any outstanding items from the underwriting team.
• Assist with, and drive forward, company projects as required.
• Assist with the training of new team members and act as a Subject Matter Expert as requested by the management team.
• Undertake other appropriate ad-hoc tasks as requested by the management team.
• Maintaining business logs and renewal pipeline spreadsheets.
• Assist with peer review
• Ensure PBQA/CC is complete
• Assist with collating information for binder/lineslip renewals
• Assist FL Portfolio analyst as required
• Responsibilities are all internal focused, UWAs will be required to deal with brokers and external third parties. Thinking aged debt, chasing brokers for missing file documents, etc.
• Assist with internal and external audits
• Ad hoc reporting as required
• Report any suspicion of financial crime to the Money Laundering Reporting Officer immediately.
• Operate within the Company’s standards for Treating Customers Fairly.
• Manage any potential conflicts of interest to avoid disrepute to the company’s integrity.
• Advise Compliance of any complaints immediately.

Starr is an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We offer first class training and development opportunities to all employees. Our aim is to grow our own talent and bring out the best in people.