Underwriter (North Sydney, AU)

Zurich Insurance
Australia
Workplace: HybridContractFunction: Banking, Lending & CreditSkills: ["Curiosity","Resilience","Sound judgement","Collaboration","Stakeholder management"]

Play a key role in Zurich’s Retail Underwriting team by assessing life risk for new business and policy changes and making timely, high-quality underwriting decisions aligned to the company’s risk appetite. Partner with advisers, customers, internal stakeholders, reinsurers, and distribution partners to provide technical guidance, build trusted relationships, and support continuous improvement while contributing to the life insurance business during its digital transformation.

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Zurich Insurance
Zurich Insurance
13 hours ago

Underwriter (North Sydney, AU)

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Job Summary

Play a key role in Zurich’s Retail Underwriting team by assessing life risk for new business and policy changes and making timely, high-quality underwriting decisions aligned to the company’s risk appetite. Partner with advisers, customers, internal stakeholders, reinsurers, and distribution partners to provide technical guidance, build trusted relationships, and support continuous improvement while contributing to the life insurance business during its digital transformation.
Location: Australia
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Contract · 12 months
Job Function: Banking, Lending & Credit

Key Responsibilities

  • •Assess new business, policy additions and alterations across life risk products.
  • •Make timely, high-quality underwriting decisions aligned to Zurich’s risk appetite and philosophy.
  • •Provide technical underwriting guidance and support to advisers and internal stakeholders.
  • •Build strong, trusted relationships with internal teams, reinsurers and distribution partners.
  • •Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and act as a positive ambassador for the Retail Underwriting team and Zurich values.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Paid LeaveParental LeaveRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •Experience in individual life underwriting, ideally within a retail environment.
  • •Demonstrated underwriting authority and sound technical decision-making capability.
  • •Strong understanding of life insurance products, risk assessment and industry practices.
  • •Knowledge of relevant legislation, regulation and underwriting frameworks.
  • •Ability to manage workload effectively while maintaining quality and turnaround times.
Experience:Life insurance
Skills:CuriosityResilienceSound judgementCollaborationStakeholder management

Company Brief

Zurich Insurance
Zurich Insurance Group is a global insurance company offering a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services to individuals, small businesses and large corporations across multiple markets worldwide.
Industry: Insurance
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland
Founded: 1872
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