Join RSA and make a difference every day.
Whether you are just beginning your career or looking to take the next progressive step in your journey, RSA Insurance Ireland is an organization where you can be yourself, learn and develop and a place where your ideas and contributions matter.
With offices in Belfast, Galway, and Dublin, we have embraced hybrid work empowering our people to work flexibly and to suit their individual needs, which enables them to deliver great service to the customers we look after every day.
Our Dublin office is also home to our sister-company 123.ie.
At RSA and 123.ie we empower our customers to make a difference in their lives.
And the same goes for our employees.
We are proud to have 32 different nationalities represented in our workforce.
Our diverse customer base benefits from the diverse perspectives of our teams that serve them, solving complex problems with creative ideas.
As proud member of the Intact family, we're part of something bigger with a presence in North America, the UK, and Europe.
Our business has grown organically and through acquisitions to over $21 billion of total annual premiums.
We want you to thrive and grow with us – and we'll give you all the tools, flexibility and learning opportunities you need to do it.
And, if you bring your best, then we promise to give you, our best.
Culture and Community RSA is a purpose-driven business – our purpose is to 'help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times, and be resilient in bad times'.
We do that by living our values – Integrity, Respect, Customer-driven, Excellence, and Generosity – in everything that we do.
We provide an open and honest workplace – where everybody contributes, and every view is listened-to and respected.
Generosity is in our DNA and is the value that guides and enables our people to help others, protect the environment and make our communities more resilient.
It drives our efforts to care for people and to give our time, financial resources and talent.
We're also committed to helping society adapt to a changing climate taking reasonable care to ensure that our business activities are conducted in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Our stats don't lie… in our annual engagement survey 87% of our people celebrate the diversity in their teams and the wider company 90% of our people feel safe to speak up and share if they've made a mistake 91% of our people feel valued and respected by leadership 89% of our people are benefiting and thriving through our hybrid working model So if you want to make a difference every day, we'd love to have you.
Underwriting Strategy & Excellence Consultant This role involves working as part of the Underwriting, Strategy and Excellence Team to lead the development, implementation and ongoing management of the Underwriting Policy and all associated frameworks for RSAII.
You will be responsible for the ongoing management of the Policy and Frameworks including engaging and managing the key stakeholders e.g., Portfolio and Senior management in RSAII and in UKI.
The Underwriting Policy and the associated underwriting authority frameworks are an integral part of Portfolio Management.
Your role will be to provide an independent review of portfolios to ensure adherence to risk appetite and strategy and compliance with the Underwriting Policy by evaluating the risk assessment, risk selection and pricing of insurance portfolios across all underwriting lines.
As part of the underwriting function, the Line1 defence team are required to support the growth strategy of the Underwriting function whilst maintaining controls at a reasonable level appropriate to our size.
Key Responsibilities: Ongoing management of the Underwriting Policy and all associated control validation frameworks.
Ensuring controls are operating effectively and are compliant with UKI policy.
Mandatory reporting of control validation findings and resulting actions to Senior managers within RSAII / RSANI/123.ie and follow up on actions.
Management and oversight of the case underwriting licence process (RSAII/RSANI & 123.ie).
Using their underwriting knowledge and skills to interpret and validate complex underwriting information from multiple underwriting systems across all portfolios in RSAII.
Influencing and persuading Portfolio Managers and other Senior Underwriting and Operations Leaders to maintain and improve risk management standards and underwriting controls.
Key contributor to bimonthly underwriting controls meeting.
Driving underwriting excellence throughout RSAII, RSANI and 123.i.e., through feedback and trend analysis of control validation findings.
Assisting with designing an Annual Underwriting Validation plan and ensuring appropriate sign off and reporting is in place.
Providing guidance to Portfolio and Senior Managers in the development of new and revised business process in response to UKI underwriting and risk requirements.
Working with UKI to ensure the annual control validation plan for RSAII and RSANI is undertaken efficiently and effectively.
Assisting with external audits on Underwriting matters.
Assisting with internal audits on Underwriting matters.
Assisting with the compilation and interpretation of risk and control information for use in the quarterly risk and control meetings.
Assisting with preparing packs and documenting output of the POG and Wording Committee forums Requirements: CIP Qualifications with 3 - 4 years experiences Excellent knowledge of Personal or Commercial lines products Good Underwriting Technical Capability to enable effective challenge of Underwriting controls and control validation.
Stakeholder management skills Good written and verbal communication skills Strong organizational skills Regulatory Requirements: This role is subject to the Fitness and Probity Standards ("The Standards") , issued under Section 50 of the Central Bank Reform Act 2010 and any subsequent amendments.
The role holder must ensure they are fully aware of the Standards and in a position to fully comply with them at all times.
RSA Insurance Ireland DAC and its affiliate companies consider applicants on the basis of qualifications and without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, disability or any other legally protected status
