Senior Underwriter PRCB

Job Description

Job Number:

Senior Underwriter PRCB (14004135D20250115)

DISCOVER your opportunity

As a Senior Underwriter for AXA XL’s Political Risk, Credit & Bond team in Paris, France, you will be responsible for delivering a profitable ‘Underwriting’ service to your clients. Your key tasks include:

1. Underwriting business within the agreed business plan and individual authority.
2. Supporting the business planning and forecasting process.
3. Monitoring financial exposure within outlined limits.
4. Monitoring premium income to ensure it remains within set limits.
5. Maintaining awareness of all claims advised while supporting and providing input on settlement of claims.
6. Building and maintaining relationships with brokers and clients.
7. Supporting the design and structuring of risks.

What will your essential responsibilities include?

1. Exercise discretion and independent judgment in the analysis and evaluation of risk by reference to business strategy and risk appetite.
2. Work collaboratively in a team environment, assisting the management team while guiding and supporting other underwriters, and working with risk team members and supporting functions such as middle office, legal, and compliance.
3. Analyze performance of portfolio and individual account performance, developing appropriate actions to drive profitable growth based on the analysis.
4. Maintain compliance with all internal and external underwriting guidelines and legal requirements.
5. Understand the strategy and targets of AXA XL including financial measures.
6. Plan, develop, and integrate distribution & marketing plans to achieve top and bottom line objectives.
7. Develop and maintain strong business relationships with key groups and individuals within the French market, as well as European countries and with London Brokers.
8. Promote the company's expertise by participating in industry conferences and events while regularly conducting and taking leadership roles in client and broker meetings.
9. Negotiate with brokers to win targeted business at the right price, while declining business that is not in line with strategy or pricing.
10. Operate at all times within defined authority level and in line with AXA XL’s underwriting policies, rules and guidelines, and referral requirements.
11. Develop and drive customer service performance.
12. Deliver service excellence through effective collaboration including contribution to the recording and maintenance of high-quality data in underwriting systems.
13. Possess an expert level of technical knowledge and skills including industry and products (Asset Finance, Project Finance, Export Finance, CF/CR, UFCB).

You will report to the Head of France/Benelux for Political Risk, Credit & Bond.

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

1. Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent). A legal and/or banking background would be an asset.
2. Proven experience in political risk and credit insurance acquired at an insurer, bank, or export credit agency.
3. Demonstrated high-level and extensive technical knowledge and skills, including product and industry knowledge, reflective of successful progression through various job levels.
4. Advanced analytical, negotiation, and sales/marketing skills.
5. Excellent written and oral communication skills in French and English.
6. Organizational, time-management, and multi-tasking skills combined with a strong work ethic.
7. Interpersonal savvy - demonstrated ability to build and maintain insured and broker contacts.
8. Ability to develop and understand business processes, strategy, and planning.
9. Ability to respond to a changing environment with flexibility and innovation.
10. Collaborative team player who provides creative solutions and ideas for resolution.

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 comprehensive 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.

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, and create 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.

Location

FR-FR-Paris

Work Locations

FR Paris Tour Majunga 92800

Schedule

Full-time

Job Type

Standard

Local Title (France): Senior Underwriter PRCB

Local Class (France): Class 7

AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any colleague or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status or any other category protected by local law.