Hiscox: Summer Internship - Underwriting Assistant – Professions & Speciality Commercial Team, London
Underwriting Assistant Internship – Professions and Speciality Commercial Team, London
London Professions and Specialty Commercial (PSC) is the UK and Ireland's largest regional office for commercial business. Based at 1 Great St Helen's, the team have ambitious new business and retention targets in 2018 and beyond. The team consists of development underwriters based in London and Portfolio Underwriters based in Colchester, working as one team to build and maintain relationships with existing and new brokers.
Key responsibilities
- Background research on scheme and large risk enquiries
- Assisting with Mid Term adjustments – processing on Merlin
- Data analysis / assisting in writing reports.
- Answering phone calls.
What is needed to excel in this opportunity?
- Ambition, self-confidence and the ability to learn quickly; identify problems and propose innovative solutions.
- You will need to be a self-starter with the initiative and courage to stretch yourself out of your comfort zone.
- A curiosity and hunger to learn, absorb and understand new information and concepts.
- High attention to detail.
Your skills and interests
Our programme is open to current students who are planning to return to undergraduate or postgraduate studies following the internship.
Applications to the internship programme are expected to:
- Be available to carry out the internship in July and August 2018.
- You will share our values, be numerate and demonstrate strong interpersonal skills.
- You will have achieved, or expecting to achieve at least at 2:2 degree or equivalent.
- Have grades B or above in GCSE English and Maths and 280 UCAS points from your top 3 A-levels (not including General Studies), or equivalent.
- Speak and write in fluent business English.
- Penultimate year undergraduates studying at a UK university on a Tier 4 student visa may apply for the Hiscox internship programme. We are unable to accept internship applications from students studying at a non-European university.
Applications and queries:
To apply, please click on the link below
For more information, call +44 (0) 203 179 4500 or email kb@futureboardconsulting.com
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* Please note - applications close on Tuesday 17th April 2018.
This opportunity is closed to applications.