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About the Role
Provide first-line leadership for underwriting regulatory returns, control oversight, staff training, and stakeholder engagement. Ensure accurate and timely completion of daily activities with clear evidence, while contributing to practical improvements.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and oversee key underwriting regulatory returns, including ATIA, GAREAT, NNPP, and other governance returns.
- Collaborate with Underwriting, Operations, Finance, Compliance, Tax, Data Analytics, and other stakeholders to gather inputs and resolve issues.
- Maintain clear procedures, checklists, and supporting evidence for key reporting activities.
- Identify and escalate data quality issues, unclear ownership, missed dependencies, or reporting risks.
- Provide day-to-day leadership, workload allocation, and support for Analysts and Interns.
- Review work and offer constructive feedback to enhance accuracy, judgment, and confidence.
- Support onboarding, coaching, mentoring, and knowledge sharing within the team.
- Promote cross-training and a supportive environment for early issue identification and constructive resolution.
- Manage underwriting file reviews, including planning, quality checks, results reporting, and action tracking.
- Review findings to ensure accuracy, balance, and clear evidence.
- Identify themes, recurring issues, and opportunities for control or process strengthening.
- Provide constructive feedback to Underwriters and stakeholders, escalating material or repeated issues as appropriate.
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and reduce manual work.
- Support agreed-upon improvements, automation initiatives, and new ways of working.
- Facilitate the adoption of changes through updated procedures, training, and follow-up checks.
Requirements
- Experience in insurance, underwriting operations, regulatory reporting, governance, controls, compliance, or assurance.
- Experience leading, coaching, mentoring, or supervising colleagues.
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and confidence in reviewing evidence, reporting outputs, and findings.
- Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, maintain quality, and escalate issues appropriately.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Analytical skills
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Stakeholder management
- Leadership
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Supervision
- Regulatory reporting
- Governance
- Controls
- Compliance
- Assurance
- Insurance
- Underwriting operations
- Power BI
- SharePoint
- Microsoft Lists
- Workflow tools
- Microsoft Copilot
Location
- Global Markets
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
- Team Lead
Benefits
- Visible leadership role spanning underwriting assurance, regulatory reporting, and control oversight.
- Develop people leadership skills by coaching Analysts and Interns and helping shape a collaborative team environment.
- Build broad business knowledge through regular engagement with Underwriting, Operations, Finance, Compliance, Tax, and Data Analytics.
- Influence practical improvements to processes, controls, data quality, and ways of working.
- Receive structured support to build knowledge of underwriting assurance, regulatory returns, controls, and internal processes.
- Be part of a supportive team that values ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
About the Company
- AXIS Capital is a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance.
- We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders.
- We proudly maintain an entrepreneurial, disciplined and ethical corporate culture.
- As a member of AXIS, you join a team that is among the best in the industry.
- At AXIS, we believe that we are only as strong as our people.
- We strive to create an inclusive and welcoming culture where employees of all backgrounds and from all walks of life feel comfortable and empowered to be themselves.
- This means that we bring our whole selves to work.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any basis prohibited by the laws that govern its operations.