Underwriting Assistant

**Underwriting Assistant**

Milan OR Genoa, Italy

This position reports to Operations Team Lead, Italy

**DISCOVER your opportunity**
- What will your essential responsibilities include?_

As part of the Operations Division, the key Middle Office mission is to handle client’s contracts and related administrative requests by providing a high-quality customer service and by supporting the underwriting team in the most cost-effective way.

The Underwriting Assistant is responsible for:
1. Contracts handling: (master policies, international programs outgoing and incoming) in an efficient and correct way for new and established businesses (sending, receiving, controlling)
- by checking the conditions of acceptance of the customer’s request, interacting with the customer if necessary, by using various available data sources to make the right decision and give the right advice to the broker / client
- by following until contract signing or refusal
- by developing draft contracts / amendments that fit with customer needs
- by modifying coverage concepts if desired by the client / broker
- by preparing contracts which are beyond his / her authority and discuss them with manager
- by monitoring, planning and issuing contractual documents (certificates...)

2.Data Management by:

- preparing and sending weekly reports
- preparing premium flows
- preparing IPSC
- controlling Gross and Net portfolio
- controlling data quality

**SHARE your talent**

We’re looking for someone who:

- has 2-4 years of experience in the Insurance sector.
- Communicate and work in English
- Use digital tools and media, and integrate them to optimize his/her way of working and communicating. Know how to operate with the data-flow provided by these tools and media to extract relevant information to make decisions.
- Focus on the customer, understand and anticipate his/her needs to provide customized solutions
- Work in team with members from different expertises, places and cultures to achieve collective goals
- Adapt quickly to changes, show appetite for the unknown, learn in all circumstances

**FIND your future**

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a strong and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

**Corporate Responsibility**

At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constantly seeking to provide innovative solutions to the world’s most complex problems. From offering our expertise, products and services to help build more resilient communities, to advancing understanding and response to climate change, our strategy - Our Impact. Our Future. - aligns key issues that are pertinent to our business - climate, water and financial resilience - and contributes to AXA Group’s purpose to “Act for human progress by protecting what matters.”.
- Climate: We’re reducing our carbon footprint, protecting ecosystems and exploring how our business can help build a better world.
- Water: We’re developing water resilience where it is — and will be — needed most.
- Financial resilience: We’re helping create opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, so they can be better prepared for unexpected changes.
- Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as our “Hearts in Action” programs.

For more information please see the Corporate Responsibility sectionon our website.

**Inclusion & Diversity**

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, while creating an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. _It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed._
- Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe
- Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
- Enhanced family friendly leave benefits
- Named to the Dive