Commercial Insurance Specialist - Bristol
A-Plan Insurance, part of the international broking group Howden, are one of the UK's largest independent insurance groups, having been established for over 50 years and with High Street branches throughout England.
We are seeking professional, ambitious, career minded individuals to join our team in Bristol and to learn more about the great career opportunities within A-Plan please visit aplancareers.co.uk.
The successful candidates will be able to:
•• Cultivate and maintain excellent relationships
•• Demonstrate strong communication skills and an enthusiastic sales ability
Ideally, you will have a good standard of general education with a minimum of 2 years experience in either Commercial Insurance or Commercial Insurance Broking including New Business Development. You will also be given the opportunity to study for nationally recognized professional qualifications.
If you take the initiative, our policy of in-house promotion will ensure you have plenty of scope to progress as your skills develop.
We have ambitious growth plans, so prospects for career progression are excellent and your contribution will be fully acknowledged and rewarded.
If this sounds like the role for you then please send us your CV by clicking on the link and we will be in touch within 7 days if we wish to take your application further
Business Analyst - Insurance
insurance Technical Business Analyst - London Markets / General Insurance
Industry Leading Broker / London/City / WFH / Remote
£55,000-£75,000 + bonus & benefits package
Insurance Systems migrations / implementations
The Business Analyst's role is to elicit, analyse, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users. This includes interviewing stakeholders and gathering and compiling user requirements to understand the technology solutions they need.
The Business Analyst will apply proven communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to help the business make appropriate and beneficial technology decisions. The Business Analyst will also be proactive about working with the Emerging Technology Analyst to look for new technologies to optimise business processes.
The Business Analyst will play a pivotal role in ensuring IT's understanding of business requirements through several strategic migration projects from Legacy systems. The Business Analyst will produce as-is and to-be process maps, challenge the norm, build functional and non-functional specifications, produce configuration guides and work alongside Subject Matter Experts in designing new improved processes.
Skills
Experience with either London Markets or General Insurance
Experience with Insurance or Broking Administration systems essential.
Solid understanding of project management tools and techniques.
A core competency in business analysis and some formal training.
Experience working on a large-scale project/programme implementing software and process solutions.
Processing mapping/modelling experience of at least one standard, eg BPMN.
Experience of 1 or more software delivery methodologies, ideally Agile.
Excellent communication/interpersonal/stakeholder management skills.
Excellent presentation skills.
Experience of facilitating workshops.
Use of Visio and equivalent online tools.
Data mapping and requirements gathering skillsets
Pricing Specialist - Large Corporate Insurance
About the roleBased at our impressive Head Office in Stratford-Upon-Avon and with excellent working from home flexibility, this Pricing Specialist role offers you the exciting prospect of joining a successful and innovative team who share the common goal of setting up fair and accurate prices for our customers.
You will be responsible for the research, development, building and implementation of an Excel-based deterministic rating tool for large Commercial Property risks and for leading the maintenance and improvement of the existing Excel-based deterministic rating tool for large Casualty corporate risks. This will include derivation, conducting impact reviews, documenting results and updating its underlying input assumptions as well as communicating the impact of the updates on output prices to relevant stakeholders.
As part of your role, you will be proactively identifying and recommending pricing actions for resolving challenges, realising opportunities and implementing future pricing improvements to include the use of new and innovative pricing tools and methods with the aim of ensuring the continuous enhancement of the company’s pricing capability.
We’re an organisation built on an ethos of ‘putting people first’, whether that’s our colleagues or customers. And nowhere is this more apparent than in our Pricing operations - a key function of growing importance. Join our team and you’ll be part of a cutting-edge hub of in-house expertise that’s right at the heart of our customer proposition.About youYou will be an analytical professional with a strong academic background in statistics and its applications coupled with excellent stakeholder management experience. As an efficient communicator, you will have the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences and to build effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
As a proven self-motivator, you will be able to work independently, organising your time efficiently and managing multiple work streams at once. With a proactive mindset, you will perform R&D activities to improve processes and suggest new methodologies.
The role would be best suited to professionals with experience gained within the insurance, data science and academia sectors.
One or more of the below skills and attributes will also be desirable but not essential for the role:
A University degree with strong mathematical and/or statistical content
London Market Pricing, Reserving or Capital Modelling experience
Programming Languages: SQL and/or R.
Benefits and rewardsAt NFU Mutual we pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and one of only 39 companies across the globe, and the only organisation with headquarters in the UK, to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2021 award. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021. When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:
Negotiable salary based on experience
Annual bonus (up to 10%)
Contributory pension scheme (maximum of 12% company contribution)
25 days holiday plus bank holidays (additional holiday purchase scheme)
Employee discounts
Gym subsidy
Health and wellbeing plan
Life Assurance cover
Discounts on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
About usOne of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies, NFU Mutual has been meeting our customers’ needs for over 100 years.
Our employees are important to us. We empower and inspire them to perform, offer opportunities to grow and we recognise and reward their contribution. They are proud to work for a company that respects them and broader communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable so we are successful now, and in the future
Financial Services - Manager, Insurance Audit - London
Insurance Assurance (INS) UK, is one of the largest business units within EY's EMEIA Financial Services Practice. We serve numerous clients, both headquartered in the UK, as well as some of our largest global accounts with a UK presence. Insurance provides both audit and extended assurance services, and our people have the opportunity to work with our clients in both capacities, delivering complex audits as well as regulatory prudential, conduct and other related assurance services.
The opportunity
You’ll help our clients meet their reporting requirements by accurately reporting on financial statements and providing meaningful insights into accounting and reporting matters. In return, you can expect leading-class learning and development tailored to your unique interests and motivations. You’ll be given all the skills, knowledge and opportunities to progress and become ready to build a better working world for our people, our clients and the communities that support us.
Your key responsibilities
Everything you’ll do will come back to providing exceptional audit activities for our clients. Colleagues and clients from a diverse array of backgrounds will look to you first for answers, so you’ll be a high-profile contact when it comes to resolving complex issues. As you build your knowledge and experience, you’ll become a credible advisor, influencing clients and engagement teams on resolutions that will impact entire industries.
Your client responsibilities:
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively manage the Audit process with appropriate consideration of audit risk issues and accounting technical matters.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead and manage fieldwork on client’s sites including liaising with other departments to ensure the smooth delivery of the Audit process.
• Demonstrate Business Development skills and identify additional sales opportunities
• Demonstrate an application and solution-based approach to problem solving, referred to for research on delivery of solutions in that field on client assignments
• Demonstrate expertise in primary accounting frameworks (UK GAAP or IFRS) and in related financial reporting matters
• Demonstrate expertise in using GAM to perform an assurance engagement in compliance with auditing standards
• Identify areas requiring improvement in the clients business processes and possible recommendations and prepare and deliver Management Letter to be provided to the client
Your people responsibilities:
• Demonstrate the ability to influence, change and shape the direction of an activity, either internally and/or externally
• Coach other less experienced staff through sharing experience and knowledge appropriately.
• Contribute to effective team work in internal engagement situations.
• Provide on-the-job training for developing auditing skills and familiarity with the firm's audit methodology
Skills and attributes for success
• Effectively manage the Audit process with appropriate consideration of audit risk issues and accounting technical matters.
• Lead and manage fieldwork on clients sites including liaising with other departments to ensure the smooth delivery of the Audit process.
• Demonstrate expertise in primary accounting frameworks (UK GAAP or IFRS) and in related financial reporting matters
• Identify areas requiring improvement in the clients business processes and possible recommendations
• Coach other less experienced staff through sharing experience and knowledge appropriately.
• Contribute to effective team work in internal engagement situations.
• Provide on-the-job training for developing auditing skills and familiarity with the firm's audit methodology
To qualify for the role you must have:
• Honours degree qualified
• Fully or partially ACA/CA/ACCA (ICAEW, ICAS, Irish Institute or equivalent international qualification) - preferably first time passes
• Excellent technical expertise with proven industry knowledge
• Proven experience in delivering external audit and assurance engagements in the Financial Services industry, with particular experience in the Insurance market
Ideally, you’ll also have
• Ability to coach and develop more junior members of staff.
What we look for
We’re interested in leaders with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you’ll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about auditing and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.
What we offer
• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
• You can read more here: https://www.ey.com/en_uk/careers/what-its-like-to-work-here
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.
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