Underwriter - Environmental

This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world’s preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations.

Designed as a modern-era company operating through an ecosystem of interconnected global operating platforms, we’re bound by a common mission and purpose: One Ascot. Our greatest strength is a talented team who flourish in a collaborative, inclusive, and entrepreneurial culture, steeped in underwriting excellence, integrity, and a passion to find a better way, The Ascot Way.

The Ascot Way guides our people and our organization. Our underwriting platforms collaborate to find creative ways to deploy our capital in a true cross-product and cross-platform approach. These platforms work as one, deploying our capital creatively through our unique Fusion Model: Client Centric, Risk Centric, Technology Centric.

Built to be resilient, Ascot maximizes client financial security while delivering bespoke products and world class service — both pre- and post-claims. Ascot exists to solve for our clients’ brightest tomorrow, through agility, collaboration, resilience, and discipline.

Job Purpose:

To develop, underwrite and manage the Environmental account, delivering sustainable growth and profitability in line with the business unit’s strategic plan and delegated underwriting authority.

Detailed Duties:

• Execute on Ascot’s Environmental go-to-market business plan.
• Grow and scale a book of business within the Syndicate’s existing Casualty portfolio. 
• Manage the profitability, growth, and retention of the portfolio through execution of individual risk underwriting and adherence to the strategic plan of the business unit. 
• Collaborate with Ascot Group colleagues in London and the US .
• Build underwriting guidelines, forms library and marketing materials.
• Underwrite and negotiate complex Site Pollution and Contractors Pollution Liability policies to minimize risk and maximize profitability.
• Monitor premiums, costs and claims ratios per contract and take corrective measures if necessary to ensure long-term profitability at account level.
• Work independently within delegated underwriting authority and make referrals as required. 
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with Ascot peers, leaders, and internal partners across functional areas to identify cross-selling opportunities, rate adequacy and operational excellence.
• Foster and maintain external relationships with brokers to market and sell Ascot’s products. 
• Operate with underwriting integrity by adhering to the Environmental guidelines, with the goal of achieving profitability over top-line growth.

• Provide meaningful and constructive feedback to regional and home-office management to improve processes, identify efficiencies and be more relevant to the customer.

• Analyze internally generated and third-party data to improve the underwriter productivity of the group and the broker experience.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Commit to The Ascot Way: Embody The Ascot Way in their daily interaction with colleagues, fostering colleague engagement and development, collaboration, inclusivity, and individual accountability.

Compliance

• Ensure compliance with broker security requirements. Check that individual brokers adhere to their individual credit limits and that a TOBA is in place prior to quoting business with an unauthorised broker.
• Ensure compliance with Lloyds licencing requirements
• Assist with completion of sanctions checks
• Completion of annual compliance training
• Compliance bulletin review and action, where required.
• Ensure that Downgrade Clauses comply with Ascot’s Down Grade Clause Policy.

Administration

• Ensure that the account administration is at all times up to date for relevant class(es), including responding to queries raised by Administrators promptly.
• Work closely with Assistants and accept overall responsibility for administration.

• Ensure Claims data discrepancies between submission and S2000 are reported.

Facultative Reinsurance Purchasing

• Ensure that the purchasing of facultative reinsurance is done so in accordance with the RI purchase procedures.

• Ensure that any agreed endorsements that could affect the facultative reinsurance programme are notified to the reinsurance team.

• Work closely with the Reinsurance Department to ensure all cover notes are logged onto the system and to ensure overall compliance with the latest Reinsurance procedures.

Aggregates

• Check that there is available aggregate prior to quoting.
• Ensure that all aggregate information is recorded at the required level of detail.

Attendance

• Attendance at the monthly underwriter meetings.
• Attendance at monthly Claims meetings.

Credit Control

• Manage the credit control issues for the class(es) including close liaison with Assistant Underwriters, Capita and brokers.

Marketing

• Develop and maintain relationships with key brokers within the insurance market.
• Develop and maintain relationships with clients.

• Represent Ascot at appropriate market groups and committees.

  Working Knowledge of Systems

• Crystal/Lloyds QA Tool
• S2000 (Subscribe)
• Swordfish

• GAAP

  Other duties

• Ad-hoc duties as directed by line management.
• Implementation of new procedures.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 8 years of underwriting experience.
• Experience with monoline Environmental products including Site Pollution and Contractors Pollution liability. 
• Deep knowledge of Environmental insurance products, insurance regulations and the insurance industry.
• Strong collaborative and critical thinking skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Excellent organizational, desk management and prioritization skills with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Must be positive, self-motivated, and possess strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Possess strong technical, analytical, and quantitative skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to successfully negotiate in difficult situations with agents and brokers.
• Solution oriented team player with a strong relationship management skill set working with both internal and external stakeholders and customers.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office. 

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