Junior Underwriter Financial Lines

Join Our Team as a Junior Underwriter Financial Lines (m/f/d)

We are seeking a Junior Underwriter Financial Lines (m/f/d) based in Wallisellen (Zurich) to join us on a full-time basis.

Your Team

Our team at Allianz Commercial/Allianz Risk Transfer is a dynamic group of experienced professionals dedicated to providing tailored financial lines insurance solutions. We collaborate closely with clients, ranging from large multinationals to small businesses, to understand their unique risks and craft customized coverage. With a strong global presence and deep industry expertise, we are committed to protecting financial institutions and individual directors from an ever-evolving landscape of liabilities. We pride ourselves on our collaborative approach, fostering a supportive and innovative environment where every team member plays a crucial role in delivering excellence. Join us and be part of a team that values flexibility, client-centric service, and continuous growth in a challenging yet rewarding field.

The Impact You Will Have

As part of our Financial Lines Underwriting team, you will be responsible for supporting and underwriting profitable new and renewal business to meet targets regionally, including global elements. Your responsibilities will encompass:

• Underwriting profitable business to meet overall performance targets.
• Structuring customized solutions in line with the team's underwriting guidelines and policy for clients and brokers.
• Negotiating participation, pricing, and terms with brokers to ensure competitive and profitable outcomes.
• Ensuring contract certainty is achieved at inception for all accounts.
• Utilizing global pricing tools to maintain consistency and accuracy in underwriting.
• Proactively managing capacity to support business growth while mitigating risks.
• Ensuring underwriting compliance with governance frameworks, including authorities, guidelines, and rules.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with brokers, clients, and key stakeholders while acquiring new business.

What You'll Bring to the Role

• Ideally, experience in Underwriting, Operations, or Claims.
• A basic understanding of the local insurance market and competitor landscape.
• Approachability, with a knack for creating and nurturing relationships both inside the company and with brokers.
• Strong interpersonal skills combined with business acumen.
• Excellent analytical capabilities, with the ability to gather and analyze information from various sources and draw appropriate conclusions.
• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to persuade others to act without direct authority.
• A proactive and positive attitude towards teamwork, with an ability to assist others while managing your own responsibilities.
• An understanding of the policy administration life cycle: information collection, policy issuance, premium bookings, credit control, and cancellation.
• The capability to work within a complex global matrix organization.
• A willingness to learn and explore how AI can enhance your role and the broader organization.
• Fluent in German and English.

What’s in It for You?

At Allianz, we care about everything that makes you, you. We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. We offer a hybrid working model that values the balance between in-person collaboration and remote work. Please feel free to discuss flexible working arrangements with us.

We believe in rewarding performance with a competitive compensation and benefits package (details vary by location), including a generous bonus scheme and pension.

From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we foster lifelong learning for our employees worldwide, empowering a culture of innovation and delivery.

We support flexible working, health and wellbeing (including private healthcare and generous parental leave benefits), helping individuals transition back from career breaks with valuable experience.

We also care for our society and our planet, providing opportunities to engage in shaping a future that is safe, inclusive, and sustainable.

Care to Join Us?

Allianz Commercial is the center of expertise of Allianz Group, insuring mid-sized businesses, large enterprises, and special risks. Our customers include top consumer brands, financial institutions, industry leaders, and unique risks such as offshore wind farms and film productions. Our clients trust us to deliver a wide range of traditional and alternative risk transfer solutions, outstanding risk consulting, multinational services, and seamless claims handling.

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At Allianz, we stand for unity and believe that a united world is a more prosperous world. We advocate for equal opportunities for all in our inclusive workplace, where both people and performance matter.

We welcome applications regardless of ethnicity, cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.

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