Underwriting Assistant - M&A at Beazley in West Hartford, CT

Summary: Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. The Underwriting Assistant - M&A will assist the underwriting team by providing administrative support, ensuring data accuracy, and maintaining relationships with brokers and clients. Responsibilities: - Support the Underwriters in the delivery of an effective and efficient administration service - Provide pre-underwriting and rating support to Underwriters and other staff - Ensure timely and accurate data entry and scanning of risk documentation onto all Beazley systems within agreed service levels. Specifically checking agreed % of risk entries as required - Data verification, integrity & accuracy - Photocopying, logging and scanning quotes and declinatures, filing, archiving and scanning - Interact with other teams within Beazley, ie Claims, Finance, Compliance, Management Services and other underwriting teams on matters affecting or related to accounts within the portfolio - Help maintain team standards through supporting other underwriting assistants in achieving their service/quality levels and targets, as required - Provide accurate management information to senior management team and underwriters - Produce ad hoc reports, presentations and marketing literature for senior managers, underwriters and other members of staff as requested - Provide a professional service to brokers in person, writing, email and telephone - Maintain and develop key relationships including brokers and external clients, responding to client queries in an accurate and timely fashion - Attend client meetings as required Required Qualifications: - Experience within property underwriting operations - Advanced Excel skills Required Skills: Property Underwriting Operations, Excel Benefits: Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related bonus, Competitively priced medical, dental and vision insurance, Company paid life, and short- and long-term disability insurance, 401(k) plan with 5% company match and immediate vesting, 22 days PTO (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), 11 paid holidays per year, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs, Up to $700 reimbursement for home office setup, Free in-office lunch, travel reimbursement for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance, Up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave, Up to 2.5 days paid annually for volunteering at a charity of your choice, Flexible working policy, trusting our employees to do what works best for them and their teams, Explore a variety of networks to assist with professional and/or personal development. Our Employee Networks include: • Beazley RACE - Including, understanding and celebrating People of Colour • Beazley SHE - Successful, High potential, Empowered women in insurance • Beazley Proud - Our global LGBTQ+ community • Beazley Wellbeing - Supporting employees with their mental wellbeing • Beazley Families - Supporting families and parents-to-be, Internal Pathways (helping you grow into an underwriting role), ILearn (our own learning & development platform), LinkedIn Learning, Mentorship program, External qualification sponsorship, Continuing education and tuition reimbursement, Secondment assignments