Underwriter Financial Lines

**Flexible Work Eligible**: None

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Zurich, Switzerland

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**DISCOVER your opportunity**

The Underwriter Financial Lines plays an important part in providing Brokers and Clients in Switzerland with a service that supports the positive image of the AXA XL brand. Therefore, the role requires a significant amount of interaction with Clients, Brokers and internal stakeholders. Working as part of the Swiss Financial Lines Underwriting team, the role will be focused on securing new business opportunities by providing leading edge solutions for client needs.

What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Develop and structure tailor-made solutions by considering the Financial Lines Underwriting guidelines and Underwriting policy to win new business and retain existing customers
- Proactively foster positive relationship with clients to get mutual understanding of their needs
- Advise, assist and service clients on insurance and risk management matters to ensure clients satisfaction and respond to client and AXA XL queries in a timely manner
- Assess client's risk profiles and evaluate appropriate risk premium by considering the risk costs inherent to the IFL Sector, reinsurance cessions as well as the underwriting and general administration costs to ensure profitability
- Initiate opportunities for cross-selling
- Ensure proper hand-over for timely implementation of new and renewed accounts according to AXA XL's quality standards (including policy-, invoice
- and endorsement issuance)

**SHARE your talent**

**SHARE your talent**

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

- Minimum 3-5 years underwriting experience with thorough technical knowledge of underwriting, rating methodologies, forms and business processes
- Basic understanding of global and domestic financial lines underwriting
- Excellent analytical skills
- Sound communication skills in German and English
- Good knowledge in marketing with presentation and negotiation skills
- Ability to develop and maintain relationships with customers, producers and trading partners
- Great decision-making skills

**FIND your future**

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 strong 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.

**Corporate Responsibility**

At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constantly seeking to provide innovative solutions to the world’s most complex problems. From offering our expertise, products and services to help build more resilient communities, to advancing understanding and response to climate change, our strategy - Our Impact. Our Future. - aligns key issues that are pertinent to our business - climate, water and financial resilience - and contributes to AXA Group’s purpose to “Act for human progress by protecting what matters.”.
- Climate: We’re reducing our carbon footprint, protecting ecosystems and exploring how our business can help build a better world.
- Water: We’re developing water resilience where it is — and will be — needed most.
- Financial resilience: We’re helping create opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, so they can be better prepared for unexpected changes.
- Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as our “Hearts in Action” programs.

For more information please see the Corporate Responsibility section on our website.

**Inclusion & Diversity**

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 a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, while creating an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. _It’s about helping one another — and