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Underwriting Ratings Manager

Wimbledon, uk
Any
Actively hiring

Underwriting Ratings Manager

Domestic & General
Wimbledon, uk
Any
Domestic & General
Actively hiring

hackajob is partnering with Domestic & General to fill this position. Create a profile to be automatically considered for this role—and others that match your experience.

 
Data and Underwriting
Underwriting
Wimbledon
 
 
Underwriting Ratings Manager will lead and continuously evolve the organisation's Rating capabilities to ensure the effectiveness of Underwriting rates for D&G UK
 
This critical role is responsible for establishing and maintaining strong governance over rating processes and systems ensuring that rates are accurately assessed, monitored and deployed into the key rating systems used across in the UK.
 
The role will also ensure compliance with Underwriting processes and industry best practices in the UK and ROI regions where the organisation operates.
 
This role will drive the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of UW Rating frameworks, tools, and processes aligned to regulatory expectations and business needs.
 
The role is accountable for ensuring continuity of our Rating systems and the outputs used for key business units including Finance, Clients, pricing and Call centres.  The role is central to the UW rating transformation program to move the system to WIB in the future requiring strong technical and management skills to handle the volume of rating schemes live in the UK across multiple clients and rating systems.  The role is accountable for the governance and tracking of rating changes with a key lead with auditors and process management.
The role interacts with Head of Finance, Underwriting Managers, Head of Pricing, Client teams, Tech, Product managers to balance key requests with continuous delivery and monitoring of the rating that sits within Underwriting parameters.
 
 
  • Experience:
    • 3+ years of experience in underwriting rating systems, rating deployments, Pricing systems, database management or a closely related field.
    • Proven experience in managing rating deployments across multiple environments with strong controls and checking processes
    • Demonstrate strong problem-solving, analytical and logical thinking skills
  • Technical Skills:
    • Extensive experience of rating systems such as AS400, Ratabase, WIMA
    • Proficiency in conducting rating analysis, prioritisation, governance management
    • Data analysis experience using SQL and Power BI
  • Communication Skills:
    • Strong maths, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to hold prioritisation discussions with key business stakeholders
  • Project Management:
    • Excellent project management skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple tasks and manage a large portfolio of clients
  • Educational Background:
    • A degree in maths, science, data, computing or numerical based degree is useful
  • Build strong relationships with stakeholders, working closely to understand business problems.
 
  • Drive continuous improvement across rating platforms and processes by identifying optimisation and automation opportunities that improve performance, efficiency and control.
  • Govern end-to-end change control, testing (UAT/regression) and release sign-off for rating updates, ensuring appropriate approvals and a clear audit trail.
  • Establish and maintain rating governance and controls, including monitoring, MI, documentation/operating procedures and audit-ready evidence of decisions and changes.
  • Coordinate incident management for rating defects, including triage, root-cause analysis, fixes and preventative controls with Technology.
  • Translate underwriting and commercial requirements into clear business rules and prioritise delivery with Technology and business stakeholders.
  • Partner with business teams to set ratings for OEM and retail clients across UK and EU countries working with the US Underwriters for shared best practices.
  • Oversee audit or regulatory response efforts when required.
 
Underwriting, Finance, Pricing, Clients, Call Centres, Tech, Product

hackajob is partnering with Domestic & General to fill this position. Create a profile to be automatically considered for this role—and others that match your experience.

 

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