Assistant Underwriter – Salary up to £25,000.

Are you a strong, dynamic and positive person with a can-do, will-do approach? If so, we want you to join our team! This role needs a strong communicator with the ability to manage their own workload and actively support the wider team.

If you have a sincere interest in the Insurance, Finance and/or Risk industries and are looking to build a long-lasting, successful career then look no further. Although desirable, we’re not asking for any prior underwriting experience as full training will be given.

Together, we'll be working towards providing a comprehensive service. This will include building a successful network of internal and external relationships; responding to a variety of enquiries and meeting high standards to ensure customer satisfaction. We also encourage our Assistant Underwriters to actively pursue opportunities to improve the efficiency of our customer service and administration processes to assist GCS in achieving its targets.

A bit about the job:

• Supporting growth of the Financial Lines team across London and the Regions.

• Identifying & driving opportunities for service and operational improvements.

• Taking personal responsibility for development in line with business strategy.

• Occasional requirement for travel to our London & Regional offices.

Aviva uses “smart-working”, and the person in this role will be based in Worthing. This is a 12 month fixed term contract role.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience in building and encouraging positive internal and external relationships.

• GCSE qualifications or equivalent in English and Mathematics.

• Good level of negotiating, numerical and verbal reasoning skills

• Good knowledge of IT including spreadsheets; databases and word processing.

• Previous underwriting experience is not essential as full training will be provided. However, experience in Financial Services, Risk or similar would be advantageous.

What you’ll get for this role:

• Salary up to £25,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Generous pension (starting level Aviva contributes 8% when you contribute 2%)

• Eligibility for annual performance bonus

• Family friendly parental and carer’s leave

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for Aviva products

• Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars

• Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme

• 21 volunteering hours per year