Insurance Operations Assistant - Insurance - City - £42,000

Job details

Posted Friday 05 June 2026
Location City
Job type Permanent
Discipline Team Assistant
Reference 829
Recruiter Name Karen Thibeault

Wise May are looking for an Insurance Operations Assistant with experience working in the London Market Insurance industry to join a leading Reinsurance client. As an Insurance Operations Assistant you will be responsible for providing operational support to Underwriting teams.

This is a full time, permanent role, with hybrid working and the hours are 9am-5pm.

Insurance Operations Assistant duties and responsibilities:

  • Perform accurate and timely risk and aggregate data entry into the company's key systems.
  • Conduct quality control checks on risk and aggregate data to ensure completeness, accuracy and compliance with internal standards. Identify and resolve discrepancies and queries, escalating where appropriate.
  • Process and validate USM (Underwriting Signing Messages) and SCM (Signing & Claims Messages) in line with SLAs, investigate and resolve message failures, exceptions and queries.
  • Provide Operational support to Underwriting teams, ensuring efficient processing of transactions.
  • Actively contribute to a continuous improvement culture and identifying opportunities to improve process efficiencies, accuracy and control.
  • Work confidently alongside Underwriting teams and building stakeholder relationships.

Insurance Operations Assistant key skills and experience required:

  • Previous experience of working in the Insurance industry, with knowledge of the Lloyd’s market processes and Syndicate Operations is essential for this position.
  • Familiarity with London Market Systems (e.g. Whitespace and Velonetic)
  • Practical knowledge of delegated authority and open market business and understands the operational and contractual differences.
  • Good organisational skills, manages own time well and prioritises workload independently whilst considering the workloads of the whole team.
  • Effective relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills, confident in engaging with colleagues across different business departments.
  • Strong analytical skills, with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

Benefits

  • Excellent pension scheme
  • Private medical insurance
  • Life assurance
  • Season ticket loan
  • Hybrid working
  • Annual discretionary bonus