Our SME Digital Trading Team is currently seeking a Senior Trading Digital Underwriter to be the main referral point for technical underwriting referrals sign off. The team is predominantly based in Perth - we are flexible with location and the role can be based at one of our offices convenient to your location or homebased, however traveling to Perth once per quarter would be required post pandemic.

As the Senior Trading Digital Underwriter, you will be aligned to a portfolio of brokers/customers to proactively develop and profitably grow the commercial book of business.

Responsibilities in the role:

• Lead the team in the absence of the Underwriting Leader

• Attend regular meaningful face to face meetings with brokers/or customers (post pandemic)

• Embrace and understand our SME strategy

• Work towards underwriting licence levels as appropriate to your job grade

• Coach and develop others

• Lead role in supporting technical quality checks

• Develop a good understanding of the SME digital business

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• An experienced P&L underwriter who operates within agreed guidelines and authority levels to profitably drive growth of the commercial digital business

• Excellent communication, listening, time management and negotiating skills

• Ability to analyse risks, communicate and present effectively to brokers and/or customers

• Have experience of working collaboratively within a large complex organisation

• Good knowledge of the FCA and other relevant regulation and legislation

• Strong commercial business acumen to create and deliver business cases

Qualifications:

• Essential: Strong education background, previous commercial underwriting experience

• Desired: ACII qualifications working to achieve full ACII

What will you get for this role?

• Salary between £40,000 - £50,000 depending on skills, experience and qualifications

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take ownership, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too, we’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Lacey Lane Mckoy a call on 0207 255 0884 or send an email to lacey.lane-mckoy@aviva.com

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.