Technical Account Consultant - Financial Lines

Job description

Technical Account Consultant – Financial Lines - Salary is competitive depending on experience, skills and location

Location – Home based

Aviva are currently looking for an experienced Technical Account Consultant to join our ever-growing Risk Management team. 

You will be working as a part of the Financial Lines portfolio, with specific focus on Financial Institutions, Directors & Officers, and Professional Indemnity.

This position is home based, but frequent visits to the London offices as well as UK based clients when needed is a requirement (expenses are covered for travel).

A bit about the job:

Aviva’s Technical Account Consultants get involved with businesses at the very start of their Aviva journey. They help understand the business and its risks, working with the customer to derive and manage risk that adds value to Customer and provides insight to the Underwriter.

Responsible for contributing towards risk management services across the Financial Lines portfolio, with specific focus on Financial Institutions, Directors & Officers and Professional Indemnity.

The role will provide underwriters with risk quality insight in respect of individual insureds along with risk management advice to insureds on how to increase their risk management resilience.

You will also be:

·  Providing high quality loss avoidance/risk management advice to key Financial Lines clients, underwriters and brokers (both internal and external).
·  Undertaking risk assessments of client processes, procedures, claims and complaints, including an overall assessment of clients’ risk management exposure.
·  Preparing detailed written risk reports for underwriters that meet the expected standard of the UK & International Insurance market.
·  Maintaining & developing technical knowledge & personal expertise of current developments, changes in legislation & risk management trends
·  Providing client and broker presentations, seminars and workshops along with thought leadership advice.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

·  Legally qualified as a Solicitor or Barrister in England & Wales
·  Excellent presentation and writing skills to produce market leading thought leadership articles to support growth across the Financial Lines Risk Management sector. Excellent communication skills with both internal and external clients and stakeholders.
·  Ability to analyse complex information and draw out the relevant facts.
·  Knowledge of claims handling or underwriting processes and ability to translate knowledge and experience into risk improvements and actions to effectively improve risk quality.
·  Experience in the legal and insurance sectors essential, with specific focus within Financial Institutions, Directors & Officers and Professional Indemnity (including Solicitors Professional Indemnity)

What you’ll get for this role:

·  Salary is Competitive (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
·  Bonus opportunity of 10% of annual salary (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
·  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 people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way.  So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spending around 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, please give Dylan Wood a call on 07385 426164 or send an email to  Dylan.wood@aviva.co m