Senior Technical Underwriter - Financial Lines

This is a great job for someone who

Enjoys using their technical expertise to shape underwriting appetite, influence decision-making, and drive underwriting excellence. You may come from underwriting, claims, broking, legal, actuarial or another discipline within Financial Lines and be looking for an opportunity to make a broader impact across the business.

A bit about the job

Our Chief Underwriting Office function is focused on providing technical leadership and oversight across Commercial Lines. The Technical Underwriting team helps ensure we make responsible underwriting decisions that support customers and drive sustainable growth.

As a Senior Technical Underwriter, you'll provide technical expertise across our Management Liability and Financial Institutions portfolios, helping to shape product innovation, underwriting governance frameworks, and portfolio oversight activities.

A key part of the role is leading the oversight frameworks applicable to Aviva’s Management Liability and Crime products, setting underwriting standards and expectations, conducting peer reviews, and overseeing the consistent and effective delivery of underwriting quality across the portfolio to drive continuous improvement. This is an exciting opportunity to support our UK business across a diverse international portfolio, including exposures in the UK, United States, Canada, and Australia.

Skills and experience we're looking for

• Strong Financial Lines experience gained through underwriting or a related technical discipline, such as claims, broking, legal, actuarial or reinsurance.
• Technical expertise in Management Liability, Directors & Officers (D&O) and/or Financial Institutions insurance, with the ability to provide practical underwriting guidance.
• Strong analytical and commercial mindset, using data, market insight and emerging risk trends to support decision-making and portfolio performance.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility across a range of business functions.
• Interest in innovation and continuous improvement, including the use of AI, analytics and emerging technologies to enhance underwriting outcomes.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Competitive salary (depending on, skills, experience, and qualifications).
• Bonus opportunity - actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days.
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it.
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts.
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme.
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave.
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work.
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others.
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools.

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, please email marcus.bragg1@aviva.com.