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About the Role
As a Risk Underwriter within our Credit & Surety (TCI) team at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, you will be a trusted Trade Credit business partner to assigned intermediaries and policyholders. You will take ownership of underwriting, monitoring, and reviewing Trade Credit risk across a portfolio of clients — all within clearly defined underwriting guidelines. Reporting to the Regional Risk Underwriting Manager, this is a role where your decisions matter, your expertise is valued, and your impact is real.
Responsibilities
- Design and execute risk strategies to assess and monitor credit risk across diverse portfolios and trade sectors
- Underwrite Trade Credit risk in accordance with organisational policy and underwriting standards
- Monitor and review client portfolios, identifying emerging risks and taking timely action to optimise portfolio performance
- Build and maintain relationships with policyholders, brokers, and intermediaries to drive shared business outcomes
- Contribute to continuous improvement across underwriting processes and practices
- Ensure full compliance across all underwriting activities in line with business and regulatory requirements.
Requirements
- A financial or accounting foundation, complemented by demonstrated experience in credit and financial risk analysis — with the capability to interrogate financial data and render sound, well-reasoned underwriting decisions.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills, with a developing track record of working systematically through intricate matters, drawing meaningful conclusions, and positively influencing outcomes.
- Proven stakeholder engagement capabilities, with experience navigating relationships with brokers, intermediaries, or external clients in a professional and commercially sensitive context.
Skills
- Credit analysis
- Strategic relationship cultivation
- Analytical acumen
- Financial risk assessment
- Stakeholder engagement
- Interrogating financial data
- Underwriting
- Credit assessment
- Risk management
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Associate
Education Level
- Financial or accounting foundation
About the Company
- Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient.
- We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.
- We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health.
- Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients.
- This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.
- Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking.
- We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics.
- In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
- If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
Equal Opportunity
- We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics.
- In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.