Operations Assistant

Company:

Victor

Description:

We are looking for an Operations Assistant to join our Victor Team. This role can be based in our Bristol, Cambridge, London, Witham or Leeds office. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

Victor and its businesses operate as Managing General Agency (MGA), offering a wide range of property, liability, motor and specialty insurance products in the UK.

Victor Insurance is part of Marsh and McLennan Companies (MMC) a global network of experts in risk, strategy and people. For over 140 years, Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) has supported enterprise, helping clients realise, survive and grow in changing times.

The role: Operations Assistant

Within this exciting, dynamic and fast paced Operations team, the Operations Assistant will work closely with business leaders, our Underwriting class owners and the wider business to carry out a wide range of operational activities enabling Victor UK to provide a market leading service offering.

You will support project teams, assist with data analysis related to products and customers, and help manage overdue payments by contacting brokers. Providing frontline support to brokers and internal teams with system access and account questions will also be part of your role.

Additional tasks include preparing regular reports, testing system updates, and helping with claims data. You will also assist the operations team with daily queries and tasks. This role is essential in supporting smooth operations and continuous improvement across the business.

We will rely on you to:

• Support the agreed product review programme and work with stakeholder to deliver subsequent enhancements.

• Provide solutions to improve efficiencies for issues identified within product, process or underwriting performance.

• Ensure business objectives, quality standards and regulatory standards are maintained.

• Work with the business to identify, manage and resolve product or process defects and support in achieving the required level of operational effectiveness.

• Extraction, analysis and presentation of data relating to product, system, user and customer behaviours.

• Manage business aged debt; including contacting broking agents via telephone and email to ensure prompt premium payment and reconciliation

• Provide broker support, offering our agents a front line support function to deal with system and risk issues connected with aged debt, portal & A2A system access and telephony issues

• Provide agency support; ensuring a consistent broker set up function, watch list management checking for poor credit and general account administration

• Provide support internally to colleagues across the business, with day to day queries

• Create regular risk bordereaux reports; quality controlling the data and timely submissions to insurers

• Test system changes, bordereau changes and document updates

• Deliver claims data into the Acturis risk management system

• Support the Operations Specialists and Operations Lead where appropriate

What you need to have:

• Basic knowledge of the insurance industry and the insurance placement process.

• Strong MS Excel knowledge and experience.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to develop effective, long-term relationships.

• Working well under pressure and ability to adapt and remain flexible in approach.

• Thorough organisational skills with effective prioritisation of workloads.

What makes you stand out:

• An understanding of underwriting and broking processes.

• Experience in process improvement and enhancement

• Financial analysis, aged debt & credit control experience

• Recognising personal development needs and taking responsibility for continuous learning.

Why join our team

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.

• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.

• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

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Marsh Risk is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information about Marsh Risk, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Victor offers a connected culture of talented, inspired individuals, and a work environment where colleagues can grow and succeed. At Victor, your voice is heard, your skills are sharpened and your ambitions nurtured. We value diversity in thought and background and are looking for individuals who are up for the challenge of creating the insurance enterprise of the future. If that’s you, join us on our journey—with us by your side, you’ll be ready to tackle tomorrow’s challenges. Victor Insurance Managers LLC (“Victor”) is one of the world’s largest managing general underwriters with locations in the US, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Australia. It handles more than $4 billion USD in premium on behalf of numerous insurance carriers, through a large network of more than 20,000 active insurance agents and brokers. With deep, specialized underwriting expertise, the company delivers a wide range of insurance solutions – from specialty property and casualty and professional liability insurance to group and retiree benefits. Victor is committed to building on 65-plus years of experience to develop products and services that address the complex needs of its customers. For more information, visit www.victorinsurance.com.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@marsh.com.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.

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