Junior Underwriter – Energy (12 months contract)

Job Summary

Zurich is one of the world’s leading insurance groups, and one of the few to operate on a global basis. Our mission is to help our customers understand and protect themselves from risk.  With around 55,000 employees serving customers in more than 210 countries and territories, we aspire to become the best global insurer as measured by our shareholders, customers, and employees. We help individuals, small and medium sized companies and global corporations around the world understand and protect themselves from risk by offering a wide range of insurance products, solutions, and advisory services.

We are looking for a Junior Underwriter – Energy, to analyze and underwrite highly complex new and renewal business, under minimal direction, utilizing The Zurich Way of Underwriting Framework as a subject matter expert, ensuring a high-level service to customers.

This is a fixed term contract for 12 months, to be based in DIFC, Dubai, UAE.

Job Accountabilities

As Junior Underwriter – Energy,  your role will involve: 

• Work closely with underwriting managers and serve as the key contact for target accounts whilst ensuring adherence to the company’s risk and compliance policies.
• Respond to inquiries quickly, completely and appropriately providing accurate status updates.
• Recognize growth opportunities and suggest process improvements.
• Identify and resolve problems by referring to policies, procedures, and standards.
• Monitor work processing using standard tracking tools ensuring attention to timeliness, productivity and quality so that projects are implemented efficiently and effectively.
• Perform general clerical services to managers in processing all transactions, using established procedures and standard software.
• Work closely with other departments to accommodate escalations and complaints from customers relating to process and system issues.
• Manage personal development and continuous learning in multi-line underwriting, including measuring exposure, analyzing risk, price, quote, set coverage, etc.

Job Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 2 or more years of underwriting experience.
• Strong analytical skills and understanding of underwriting process.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong drive to deliver results whilst committed to demonstrate corporate values.
• Ability to manage personal development and encourage others to do the same.
• Advance Microsoft Office skills.
• Flexibility to changing environment.