Underwriting Intern Financial Lines

**Job Description**:
**Underwriting Intern Financial Lines / Graduate**

Zurich, Switzerland

Are you ready to launch your career in the dynamic world of insurance? AXA XL is excited to offer a unique opportunity for recent graduates to join our comprehensive one-year trainee program focused exclusively on the Swiss insurance market in the area of Financial Lines with a specific focus on Management Liability. This is not just a job; it’s the beginning of an exhilarating journey towards becoming an international insurance professional.

Throughout this program, you will dive deep into the Financial Lines sector, gaining invaluable expertise and experience that will equip you for success in this specialized field. You will gain a thorough understanding of various products within Financial Lines, with a general introduction to all offerings followed by in-depth training in a specialized area. You will work closely with our expert teams develop essential skills in Financial Lines underwriting, gaining valuable insights into claims, risk consulting, and engaging with essential support functions such as Legal and Compliance.

Upon completing the 12-month program, we promise a permanent position within AXA XL’s Financial Lines team in Zurich, ensuring your growth and success within this dynamic field.

If you are eager to take a significant first step into the insurance industry and are looking for a tailor-made opportunity to advance your career, we invite you to join our values-driven global organization. Start your journey with AXA XL and help shape the future of insurance with us

You will report to the Head of Professional.

**What**you’ll be doing**:
What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Learn Underwriting Fundamentals: Gain an understanding of the underwriting process by assisting with tasks aligned to the business plan and your authority level.
- Start developing relationships with brokers and clients, learning effective communication and networking skills.
- Assist in Risk Assessment: Support the team in the design and evaluation of insurance risks, gaining insights into how risks are structured.
- Understand Risk Pricing: Learn how to calculate risk premiums by considering various factors, including costs associated with financial lines and the importance of profitability.
- Provide Client Support: Assist in responding to client inquiries and help ensure their insurance and risk management needs are met, fostering a client-first mindset.
- Observe and assist in relationship management activities, learning how to identify opportunities for cross-selling and maintaining client accounts.
- Help ensure that new and renewed accounts are set up in a timely manner, learning about quality standards in the process.
- Assist in basic data gathering for business planning and monitoring processes, understanding how financial exposure is managed.
- Work alongside underwriters and other team members, gaining experience in a collaborative environment while contributing to team projects.

**What**you’ll bring**:
We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
**Required Skills and Abilities**:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in the field of Insurance & Risk, Economics, Business Administration or Finance
- Very strong interest and motivation in developing a career in the insurance industry
- A positive analytical mindset with a solution orientated hands-on approach to problem solving
- Excellent communication skills in German and English, accompanied by a strong cultural awareness

**Desired Skills and Abilities**:

- Ability to develop and maintain relationships with people and considered a team player

**Who**we**are**:
AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

**What**we**offer**:
**Inclusion**

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to