Underwriting Audit Manager

00601 CNA Services (UK) Limited; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Job summary

CNA Hardy seeks an experienced Underwriting Audit Manager to lead the underwriting audit function and drive governance across the business. You will manage a dedicated team, embed robust controls, and engage with senior stakeholders to deliver clear audit outputs and actionable recommendations.

This role offers flexible hybrid working and a competitive compensation package. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in underwriting or audit leadership, with strong communication and analytical skills to

Qualifications

• Leadership experience: at least 5 years managing audit or underwriting teams.
• Governance and controls expertise within a regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of underwriting systems and processes.

Responsibilities

• Audit leadership: lead and deliver underwriting audit plan with timely execution.
• Team leadership: manage and develop underwriting audit team.
• Governance oversight: embed governance frameworks and ensure compliance.
• Stakeholder engagement: build relationships with Underwriting Heads and senior leaders.
• Reporting & insight: deliver audit outputs and report to committees.

Skills

Leadership

Governance

Technical knowledge

Market knowledge

Audit capability

Communication

Analytical thinking

Job description

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Underwriting Audit Manager to lead our underwriting audit function.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Audit leadership: Lead and deliver the underwriting audit plan, ensuring a robust control environment and timely audit execution.
• Team leadership: Manage, develop and oversee the underwriting audit team, ensuring performance, delivery and continuous improvement.
• Governance oversight: Embed and monitor governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with regulatory, legal and internal standards.
• Stakeholder engagement: Build and manage effective relationships with Underwriting Heads and senior stakeholders across the business.
• Reporting & insight: Deliver clear audit outputs, track actions and provide regular reporting to committees and leadership teams.

What We’re Looking For:

• Leadership experience: Minimum 5 years’ experience managing audit or underwriting teams, with proven capability leading people and delivering through others.
• Governance expertise: Strong experience managing governance frameworks, controls and compliance within a regulated environment.
• Technical knowledge: Solid understanding of underwriting systems and processes, including rulebooks and control structures.
• Market knowledge: Good understanding of the insurance market, with Lloyd’s market experience beneficial.
• Audit capability: Proven experience in underwriting audit, compliance, or a technical commercial insurance discipline.
• Communication skills: Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge at senior levels.
• Analytical thinking: Ability to assess complex issues, identify risks and deliver practical, effective solutions.

Why Join CNA Hardy?

Our workplace is dynamic, challenging and ever evolving, here your voice matters and you can make a difference. We celebrate individuality and inclusivity, ensuring everyone feels valued, respected, and supported to share ideas and perspectives. Our employees and their families are important to us. That’s why we offer flexible hybrid working and a competitive compensation and benefits package. We also invest in your growth through learning, mentoring, and clear development pathways, recognising and rewarding performance and the behaviours that drive success. We recognise that the development of skills and experiences is crucial for our people to achieve their aspirations and reach their full potential.

The Company

The Company CNA Hardy is a leading specialist commercial insurance provider for clients within the Lloyd’s and company markets. We offer a highly specialised and comprehensive portfolio of innovative and market leading products. Coverage is available to businesses of all sizes for domestic, international and global exposures. We are a leading specialist commercial insurance provider for clients of all sizes with both domestic and international exposures. Writing across both company and Lloyd's platforms offers our brokers the flexibility to find the best solution for their clients in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Find out more about our Lloyd's Syndicate 382. Our clients trust us because we understand the risks they face. Our teams on the ground have the local expertise and authority to provide fast, effective solutions for our clients across our network of dedicated offices in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK (Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and London). Whether it’s our expert underwriters, risk control engineers, claims managers or international solutions team, we work in partnership with our brokers to deliver our highly-specialised and comprehensive portfolio of innovative and market-leading products in response to emerging exposures and ever-changing needs. CNA Hardy is part of CNA Financial Corp, one of the largest U.S. commercial property and casualty insurance companies. Trusted for more than 125 years, CNA provides a broad range of standard and specialised insurance products and services for over 1 million businesses and professionals across the U.S., Canada and Europe.