Job Description

Do you like to work in a global and dynamic sector with specialists in their respective fields? Does the world of finance, insurance, construction, manufacturing, and surety captivate you? Are you a performance-oriented professional looking for the next challenge? We are looking to hire a market underwriter in Singapore for our Surety Asia Pacific team and this could be your opportunity to grow further and thrive.

Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance and insurance, with more than 150 years track record in working to make the world more resilient. Within the commercial insurance arm Corporate Solutions, our Credit & Surety line has been innovating the insurance business for decades and is a global market leader in this sector.

About the Role

As a Surety Underwriter, you are dedicated to building and cultivating strong relationships with global corporate and financial institution customers. You seek to understand our customers' needs and service them in a highly professional and positive manner. Pursuing the right balance between developing bespoke solutions that add value to customers while maintaining an adequate risk appetite for Swiss Re.

Diligently analyse new business opportunities by accurately assessing economic, industry, performance, and transactional risks, technical, legal and market due diligence, following Swiss Re's processes, guidelines and approved business concepts with utmost integrity. Prepare top quality transaction submissions and present/defend your opinion towards committees and (fellow) decision makers in the transaction approval process with confidence and passion. Review and negotiate policy wordings and/or other legal documents with business partners in order to adapt the text or clauses if needed.

Help steer our portfolio successfully towards our goals by staying on top of relevant market developments, technologies, and key players, and continuously improving our products and services. Support portfolio management tasks such as regular transaction monitoring, and analysis of amendments and restructurings.

Work pro-actively with various other internal partners such as operations, credit risk management, IT, claims, legal & compliance etc. to ensure aligned and smooth product deliveries.

About the Team

We are a very engaged and collaborative team of 5 who provide surety solutions to leading corporate and financial institution customers engaged in cross border transactions and projects across the world. You will encounter a diverse and international team of professionals located in Shanghai, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, passionate about our sector and fully committed to our customers. Together, we build on the partnerships with our client base and continuously strive to maintain our market leadership position and develop further.

About You

• Minimum 5 years of relevant working experience, preferably in a bank, large credit or surety insurer or reinsurer.
• Proficiency in credit and financial statement analysis, and strong analytical skills.
• Enjoying the challenge of analysing sophisticated credit and performance risks and able to make good judgement on them by maintaining good balance between commercial and underwriting aspects.
• Well-organised, efficient and dynamic. You enjoy a great level of autonomy in your day-to-day activities, but you demonstrate ability to deliver quality results under tight schedules.
• Experience in interacting with customers and forming positive and enduring relationships with them. Curious and creative mind seeking to provide better solutions to our demanding customers with persistence and thoroughness.
• Engaging in a multi-cultural and cross-functional environment energises you. Your outstanding communication and facilitation skills allow you to work with ease with colleagues and clients globally.
• Great teammate with excellent interpersonal skills and a positive personality who likes to take initiative, has a can-do agile mind-set, and enjoys both working independently as well as in a team.... We're looking for you!
• Willing to travel.
• Language Skills - Strong verbal and written communication skills in:
• English required;
• Mandarin preferred; and
• Spanish is a plus.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Are you curious to learn more about what we do, how we do it, and what your role could be? Contact us to find out.

About Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. We anticipate and manage risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group. We offer innovative insurance solutions to large and midsized multinational corporations from our approximately 50 locations worldwide. We help clients mitigate their risk exposure, whilst our industry-leading claims service provides them with additional peace of mind.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions embraces a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.

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