Assistant Underwriter Financial Lines

**Flexible Work Eligible**: None

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**(temporary for minimum 6 months)**

Zurich, Switzerland

To work as part of the Financial Lines underwriting team, underwriting a profitable portfolio of business and to aid the growth of the overall portfolio according to proper underwriting guidelines. By performing challenging and meaningful tasks, role holder will pick up valuable business, technical and sales skills to prepare for future career in insurance. Financial lines insurance products include: directors’ and officers’ liability, professional liability, crime and cyber insurance.

**DISCOVER your opportunity**

What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Analyze and assess client exposure data (including the review and analysis of audited financial statements), prepare pricing tools
- To provide, structure and sort as necessary information and make the respective data entry for committee referrals in order to support the underwriting process
- Ensuring that all information is entered on the respective underwriting, pricing and data storage systems and is kept up to date and accurate
- Ad hoc research and project work to provide the Underwriters with information to make informed underwriting decisions

**SHARE your talent**

**SHARE your talent**

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

- Working towards bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business Administration or equivalent
- Prior experience in financial lines underwriting environment of advantage
- Excellent level of numeracy, with demonstrable evidence of manipulating data clearly and accurately with the ability to extract & clearly articulate key points
- Excellent working knowledge of Excel and other Microsoft Office programs
- Able to organize self-including effective scheduling, prioritization and time management skills, completing tasks to tight deadlines. Demonstrates a ‘can do’ attitude
- Very good command of German and English, French would be a plus
- Comfortable taking ownership for own work, identifying the need for action (using initiative) whilst working effectively within a team.
- Displays a resilient and adaptable style, track record of remaining calm in demanding circumstances, adjusting comfortably to changing conditions / priorities

**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 our business — to move forward and succeed._
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