Junior Casualty Liability Underwriter

Title:
Junior Casualty Liability Underwriter

Company:
Everest International Insurance

Job Category:
Underwriting

Job Description:

About Everest:

Everest Group, Ltd. (Everest), is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating through subsidiaries in North America, Latin America, the UK & Ireland, Continental Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture. Our most critical asset is our people. We offer dynamic training & professional development to our employees. We also offer generous tuition/continuing education reimbursement programs, mentoring opportunities, flexible work arrangements, and Colleague Resource Groups.

This position will be based in our Dublin office with a hybrid schedule that has the option of working two days remotely each week.

Job Detail:

Everest Insurance (Ireland) are excited to offer this opportunity for a Junior Casualty Liability Underwriter to join our fully empowered team with 50 years plus underwriting knowledge and expertise. This is a great opportunity to gain more experience and authority in a hands-on underwriting position. As we look to execute on an exciting growth trajectory across International markets, with Ireland playing an important part, this is a key role within the Ireland Casualty underwriting team as we continue to underwrite opportunity and offer market leading responsiveness and a solution focused mindset to our clients and broking partners.

Core Responsibilities:

• Support the ambitious expansion of the Ireland Casualty account in line with business plans and underwriting strategy, whilst maintaining a focus on bottom line underwriting profit.
• Develop a sound understanding of the underwriting strategy for areas of responsibility.
• Actively participate in execution of the marketing plan, including maintenance of existing broker & customer relationships and developing new relationships, where this is consistent with the objectives set in the Business Plan.
• Actively invest and be able to demonstrate an expansion of underwriting and product knowledge, through dedicated training (internal and external) and working with other underwriters on specific accounts.
• Developing the skills required to manage a portfolio of renewal business, including underwriting & pricing, claims, referral, processing, broker, and client relationship aspects; and servicing any new business request in the same way.
• Represent Everest at meetings both in the office and during visits to brokers, Cover holders and other customers as required.
• Support the Senior Irish Casualty Underwriter as required on specific accounts, schemes and binders.
• Data entry to support / maintain MI.
• Refer as appropriate risks exceeding delegated underwriting authority and underwrite in compliance with Everest prescribed underwriting standards.
• Monitor all relevant portfolio KPIs for own account and support the Senior Irish Casualty Underwriter across the broader portfolio.
• Liaise with the Claims Manager on claims related issues.
• Participate in the underwriting peer review process at the weekly and monthly underwriting meetings, as required.
• Monitor and keep abreast of changes in underwriting, regulation, and compliance.
• Assist in the improvement of rating models, underwriting manuals, service standards, marketing materials, and website as required.
• Business travel as required to support the above objectives, and the appropriate management of expenses.

Skills & Competencies:

• Good technical knowledge of Casualty (or other lines of business) from an underwriting or broking background, ideally with experience of working on Employers Liability, Public and Products Liability both from a Primary and Excess of Loss basis.
• Strategic skills - show an ability to determine opportunities and threats through comprehensive analysis of current and future trends that may impact our business.
• Judgment and decision-making skills - show ability to use logic rationality and objectivity in decision making.
• Risk taking - show the ability to develop a sound underwriting view to take calculated risks with favorable outcomes.
• Market and product knowledge - ability to maintain and develop market knowledge including competitor profiles and products.
• Relationship management - developing ability to establish and maintain sound relationships both internally and externally.
• Compliance - ability to understand and ensure compliance with all internal and external management and regulatory controls, with appropriate support.
• Progression towards ACII qualification, or desire to complete.

Our Culture

At Everest, our purpose is to provide the world with protection. We help clients and businesses thrive, fuel global economies, and create sustainable value for our colleagues, shareholders and the communities that we serve. We also pride ourselves on having a unique and inclusive culture which is driven by a unified set of values and behaviors.

• Our Values are the guiding principles that inform our decisions, actions and behaviors. They are an expression of our culture and an integral part of how we work: Talent. Thoughtful assumption of risk. Execution. Efficiency. Humility. Leadership. Collaboration. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
• Our Colleague Behaviors define how we operate and interact with each other no matter our location, level or function: Respect everyone. Pursue better. Lead by example. Own our outcomes. Win together.

All colleagues are held accountable to upholding and supporting our values and behaviors across the company. This includes day to day interactions with fellow colleagues, and the global communities we serve.

Type:
Regular

Time Type:
Full time

Primary Location:
Dublin, Ireland

Additional Locations:

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