Create impact as a Specialist, Underwriting
Join the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand.
YOUR ROLE
Join our team and play a crucial role in implementing the underwriting strategy for consumer lines products! In this role you will ensure that our processes are fair and fit for purpose, continuing to optimise the guard rails for Retail Insurance Australia for underwriting appetite and exposure risk.
You'll be pivotal in developing clear underwriting manuals and business rules, to balance the spectrum of customer, market, and product risks.
Your efforts will support long-term product underwriting strength, driving profitable customer growth.
You'll maintain a strong underwriting operational risk and control environment, set and maintain risk appetite by product line, and support overall risk compliance from a strategic underwriting perspective.
If you're passionate about underwriting, this role is perfect for you!
This is a permanent full-time opportunity with hybrid working conditions and is open to our IAG offices in Gadigal Country (Sydney), Naarm (Melbourne) & Meanjin (Brisbane).
ABOUT YOU
To be successful in this role, you'll ideally meet the below criteria:
5 + years' experience of Underwriting or Portfolio Management experience in a complex, large-scale insurer or financial services organisation, preferably in direct consumer lines. Understanding of underwriting and assurance principles, including ability to engage technical SMEs on relevant pertinent product challenges. Understanding of Financial Services Regulatory landscape, including Risk, Legal & Compliance, and regulatory issues. Ability to work across the business. Commercial acumen, looking to balance the drive for improvement across all stakeholder needs. ABOUT US
IAG is the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand. We're also a tech and research facility, a hub for climate change experts and a centre of resilience design.
We chat over coffee with customers, advocate for them in the corridors of Parliament and back them up in the community when life's moments hit hardest.
You'll know our brands NRMA Insurance, CGU, WFI, ROLLiN', AMI, NZI, and State Insurance to name a few. Together they turn our IAG purpose of making your world safer into action by helping, supporting ambitions and making insurance accessible.
We celebrate unique viewpoints shaped by life experiences, cultures and passions. We expand careers, genuinely connect with community, lead with a powerful purpose and celebrate what makes you individual.
We're guided by the knowledge and voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, businesses, and communities. Collaborating on Indigenous-led solutions that enable growth, develop resilience, and create meaningful change.
We're passionate about social issues, walk the talk on sustainability and strive to do more than standard on things that matter, including women in senior leadership, Indigenous empowerment and creating inclusive environments.
We're committed to being a safe and supportive workplace for all our employees.
All this shows up in what we offer:
Boosted superannuation with 13% as standard. Up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance. 5 myLeave days per year on top of annual leave. Work from home and many more flexibility options with myFlex. Industry-leading 20 weeks paid parental leave, available from the day you start, for both primary and secondary carers. Compassionate leave including Sorry Business, early pregnancy loss and extended family bereavement. Inclusive leave such as public holiday swap and gender affirmation leave. Dedicated career growth programs, including the award-winning IAG Academy. #J-18808-Ljbffr